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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and UNHCR work together to empower refugees and hosting communities in Uganda
Uganda is the center of the world's fastest growing refugee crisis: every day around 2,000 people stream across Uganda's borders fleeing famine, drought and...
LEGIT Completes Field Mapping in Three Cities in Liberia
As part of the Local Empowerment for Government Inclusion and Transparency (or LEGIT) project, funded by USAID, HOT and DAI teamed up to map...
OpenStreetMap for Rural Development and Poverty Eradication
In August 1-4, HOT Indonesia, represented by its Communications Specialist, had the opportunity to attend Regional Expert Meeting for rural development and poverty eradication...
Crowd2Map Tanzania: putting rural Tanzania on the map with the help of a HOT Microgrant
*Guest blog - Janet Chapman, Crowd2Map* Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project aiming to put rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015,...
From the map to the field: HOT trains MSF and refugees in field data collection - Uganda
On the 12th of July, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in Uganda, under the Crowdsourcing Non-Camp Refugee Data program, funded by United States Department...
Three Hundred Students to Map for Flood Resilience in Dar es Salaam
November 7th & 8th marked the beginning of a new era for Ramani Huria - a project that over the past year has brought...
HOT Supports Community Driven Open Data: Ger Community Mapping Center, Mongolia
Guest blog: Enkhtungalag of Ger Community Mapping Center, Mongolia, who are the beneficiaries of a 2017 HOT Microgrant. Mongolia is considered one...
Bringing Remote Mapping to the Field
Following the preliminary results of both mapathons in Gulu, Northern Uganda, Istanbul and Kampala (World Refugee Day), HOT, and other community volunteers deployed information...
Volunteers in Uganda and Turkey Rally to Support Refugees on World Refugee Day
What connects Kampala and Istanbul? You might be thinking that Kampala and Istanbul are worlds apart, but volunteers in both cities rallied around a...
HOT Indonesia Hosts Mapathon for InAWARE Jakarta Mapping Project with the University of Indonesia
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia hosts a mapathon with students from the University of Indonesia’s (UI) Department of Geography. UI, one of Indonesia’s...
Collaborating with IOM, the UN Migration Agency, on OpenStreetMap
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has recently signed a cooperation agreement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN's Migration Agency. This new...
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LEGIT Team Completes Field Mapping in Zwedru City
Zwedru was the first of three cities that we are working to map in Liberia with DAI for the Liberia Local Empowerment for Government...
LEGIT Kicks off Field Mapping with Training in Monrovia
In collaboration withDAI, HOT is currently working in Liberia to help put communities on the map. As part of the Liberia Local Empowerment for...
InAWARE Mapping Project Moves from Surabaya to Jakarta
After a successful round of mapping Surabaya’s infrastructures in three months, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia relocates to the country’s capital, Jakarta. Continuing...
5,600,000 map edits to Eliminate Malaria
Malaria is a preventable and treatable infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes that kills more than one million people each year, most of them in...
