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Agetic Training Success with OSM Mali
OSM Mali run training for Communication Technologies Agency, Agetic Mali
Field surveying in Botswana to support the National Malaria Programme
Although a lot of progress has been made to combat malaria, and yearly deaths worldwide have declined from over 1 million in 2000 to...
Welcoming summer work on open source tools through Outreachy and Google Summer of Code
Welcome to the new Google Summer of Code and Outreachy students! The HOT Community is getting a significant amount of support this summer on...
Motorcycle Mapping - BodaBodas and 'The Knowledge'
Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, has Uber taxis. It is crazy. They are highly unreliable, not surprisingly given the traffic behaviour here - which could...
Engaging with Youth, HOT’s Uni Battle Map Winner Becomes the First YouthMappers Chapter in Indonesia
Youth is a critical partner in carrying out HOT’s mission. We worked together with university students and young people since the very inception of...
3 days of OSM and GIS training kicks off in Mali!
Guest blog; Nathalie Sidibe, OSM Mali
Microgrants 2018: HOT supports eight OSM communities!
We are pleased to announce the launch of this year’s Microgrant programme, which will support communities across South America, the Caribbean, West Africa and...
Nethope Device Challenge - April Update!
Since January 2018, the Nethope grant communities have expanded to 16 communities, with plans to extend to a further 6 in the next 3...
Some Powerful Map Outputs From The Ugandan Refugee Response
Image: Waiting for Water - Long queues of Jerrycans at the dried-out borehole near BidiBidi Refugee Settlement
Nethope Device Challenge reaches the Gambia
HOT are pleased to introduce our sixteenth Nethope Device Challenge grant to the YMCA in the Gambia. Initially, under the Nethope Device Grant, HOT...
HOT Summit at FOSS4G 2018 Updates
The time is quickly approaching! HOT Summit at FOSS4G 2018 is only 4 months away and we’re excited to see you and for you...
Mapping to support local NGOs in Kenya
As part of HOT’s mission to expand local mapping communities and ensure that HOT’s partners contribute to the sustainability of OpenStreetMap, our partner, Salesforce,...
Update on HOT’s Strategic Planning Process
Given the short-term nature of humanitarian funding and project-centered work, HOT has historically operated under relatively short-term, often one or two year planning cycles....
OSM Quality Reporting: Malaria Prevention
Last year, The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team kicked off work to analyze OpenStreetMap (OSM) for the fight against malaria. Our goal is to provide organizations...
The Inaugral Data for Development Festival
From the 21st to 23rd March 2018 I was fortunate to attend and speak at the Data for Development Festival, the inaugural in-person gathering...
World Health Day: The maps that are making the difference
In 1854 one map made medical history and changed the way we represent health data forever. The map, produced by John Snow, marked cholera...
