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Gulu Mapathon and Partnerships
As Uganda deals with an influx of refugees from South Sudan and neighbouring countries, many responders including UNHCR implementing partners, the Ugandan Government,...
Branching out Manpower to Mapping 136 Priority Areas in Indonesia through Training of Trainers (ToT)
As we wrote earlier, Indonesia’s disaster management agency is taking on a quantum leap this year, setting up on the creation of contingency planning for all the 136 priority cities/districts in Indonesia. Managing risks and safeguarding all economic and development hubs in the country is not an easy task, but a necessary one.
HOT Research Partnership on Crowdsourced Damage Assessment
HOT is partnering with the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative (SURI), the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), Heidelberg University, and...
Paving the Road to Inclusivity, HOT Trains Mapping Skills to Disabled Communities
Supriyadi, 60, lost his ability to walk 11 years ago when a magnitude of 5.9 earthquake shook Yogyakarta, one of Indonesia’s provincial capital. It...
World Health Day 2017: show your support by mapping for malaria
Malaria is a disease that affects millions of people around the world, particularly children under 5 and women. Malaria is prevalent in some of the most unmapped places. Malaria is a preventable and curable disease, but currently organisations do not have detailed data on the number of vulnerable people in an area, which reduces their ability to respond. Malaria spreads through mosquito bites, and if you can prevent bites, you can reduce the spread of infection. This means that you need to know where those vulnerable to malaria live, so you can spray their homes with insecticide or distribute bednets. This way you can save more lives, more quickly.
How Youth Mappers in Uganda are improving their mapping skills through mapping with HOT for Malaria Elimination
During our 2nd year at University for our Internship in 2016 we were privileged to work with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in Uganda...
Celebrating International Women’s Day: HOT Empowers Women with ICT and Mapping Skills
Commemorating International Women’s Day, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia organized a mapping event, #WomenMap, using free and open-source mapping tools. The event was...
Mapping for government inclusion and service delivery in Liberia
Liberia is the oldest Republic on the African continent and one of those that have gone through tough times across the continent including the...
HOT Concludes City-wide Mapping Project in Surabaya: Key Results and Lessons Learned
As the city-wide mapping project in Surabaya is nearing completion, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia reflects on some of its key achievements and lessons...
Kicking off the “Crowdsourcing Non-Camp Refugee Data” project
In January, we started work on a new mapping project in Uganda and Turkey. During this project, we will be mapping parts of Istanbul...
Recap of the UN World Data Forum: using OpenStreetMap for the Sustainable Development Goals
Last week I attended the UN World Data Forum to share the work the HOT community is doing with our partners towards achieving the...
Learning from HOT Indonesia
From 8th to 29th January 2017, I am visiting HOT Indonesia in a Knowledge Exchange Program. Up to now, HOT has executed two projects...
Ramani Huria Trains Secondary School Students During STEM Boot Camp
Over the first week of January 2017, a group of 60 secondary school students gathered at Marian University College, Bagamoyo for a ground-breaking training...
Making use cases for crowd sourced financial services data in Uganda
How can individuals, businesses and government adapt the process, and reliability of crowdsourced financial services data collection, for planning, decision making and financial inclusion....
