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Mikko Tamura

StaffVoting MemberCommunity Manager - Asia Pacific Hub

Bio

Mikko is the Community Manager for Asia at HOT. He has been actively contributing on OpenStreetMap since 2014 and has worked as a volunteer mapper with several non-governmental organizations such as UN Human Settlements Programme, Philippine Red Cross, Cordaid, and the Asia Foundation.

Mikko is also the founder of MapBeks - an online community of mappers advocating for LGBT representation and inclusion on OSM.

Posts

The Language Localization Project: Enabling Inclusion and Participation

Together with the local communities and contributors from Vietnam, Madagascar, and Mozambique, as well as the Open Mapping Hubs in the Asia-Pacific and East & Southern Africa, the Localization Project aims to develop baseline data to inform a self-sustainable Localization Strategy. We aim to bridge the gap between language and accessibility of Humanitarian Open Mapping resources.

14 October, 2021

Asia and the Pacific Hub launches Facebook Community Impact Microgrants

Three communities in the Asia-Pacific have been selected as recipients of the Facebook Community Impact Microgrant. Congratulations to OSM Fiji, MapBeks in the Philippines, and the Geomatics Engineering Society at Kathmandu University!

11 March, 2021

Resilience Mappers from Uganda is our Summit 2020 Microgrant awardee!

Congratulations to Resilience Mappers for being selected as the recipient of the hOSM Summit 2020 microgrant!

3 February, 2021

Project Contributions

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Working Groups
Languages
  • Filipino
  • English