Recent Updates

Setting up the OSM ecosystem in Senegal 6: Building the humanitarian component

Posted by nicolas on Aug, 16 2012

It’s finally time to mention the mapping party HOT and OCHA-ROWCA co-organized at the OCHA Office in Dakar the 30-May where we brought together UN IM/GIS from OCHA, World Food Program, UNICEF and ICRC, Karim Sy and Herman Koassy from JokkoLabs and HOT.

Setting up the OSM ecosystem in Senegal 5: Building a local OSM groups in Louga

Posted by stephane on Aug, 14 2012

To continue giving a more complete picture of our activity on the Senegalese ground and our interaction with all types of actors, it’s worth mentioning the mapping party we held in Louga the 28-May at the office of a French NGO, the Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités (geres) is working in the Ferlo region on thematics revolving around resilience to global change. The workshop was organized by Madicke Seck, a Senegalese mapper and the GIS expert of the geres. Madicke was introduced to us by Gael from OSM-France who trained him first on OSM earlier in winter time in Montpellier.

Setting up the OSM ecosystem in Senegal 4: Reaching out to the Academics

Posted by stephane on Aug, 11 2012

Friday 8-June had been an OSM Academic day where two OSM mapping parties were held in the Universities of Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) and Gaston Berger (UGB) respectively in Dakar and Saint-Louis. This was the result of our continued outreach efforts towards the Academic actors and the relations that has been built here meeting after meeting.

Setting up the OSM ecosystem in Senegal 3: Reaching out the Senegalese geomatics scene (Senegalese SDI)

Posted by nicolas on Aug, 8 2012

With the support of the ICT Directorate and the Agence Informatique de l’Etat (ADIE), HOT and the Canadian Support Project of the Plan National Géomatique (PNG) held a one day workshop around OSM at the ADIE office on June 7th.

Setting up the OSM ecosystem in Senegal 2: Reaching out to the Senegalese Tech communities

Posted by will on Aug, 6 2012

On May 26th, we were at JokkoLabs, a co-working space in Dakar . With the digital campus of AUF, they are the anchors of the OpenSource and OpenData communities in Senegal. We met with them a couple days earlier and planned for a combined event around OSM, HOT and JokkoFabLab, a FabLab project. JokkoFabLab was the best introduction for the Senegalese tech community which managed a FabLab project and discovered OSM a couple of weeks ago during their fieldwork and started using it for its cartography on the web but also as a storage point for some of the info they are gathering.

Setting up the OSM ecosystem in Senegal 1: Reaching out to GIS projects

Posted by nicolas on Jul, 31 2012

We left Senegal a few weeks ago and finally digest the key elements from these 3 weeks that we are sharing below. We have been succeeding in engaging actors across different sectors in Dakar, Louga and Saint-Louis through a mix of meetings and mapping parties. We engaged with Local and National Government groups such as regional government ARD for Casamance and Louga, national entities such as Agence Pour le Développement Municipal (ADM), Plan National Géomatique (PNG), Directorate of ICT (DTIC), Agence pour le Développement Informatique de l’Etat (ADIE), Comité intergouvernemental de concertation et de coordination (GICC), city governments of Saint-Louis but also of Pikine and Guediawaye (two large cities just outside Dakar).

Indonesian Project Report: Get it while it's HOT

Posted by Katrina E. on Jul, 31 2012

Kate Chapman, with assistance from Emir Hartato, her Indonesian teammate, and editing assistance from members of HOT and AusAID, officially finished the project report for their work earlier in the year (March 2011 to March 2012). The report details the initial workshops, key accomplishments, university competitions, and new software, support and resources developed.

Understanding Risk Forum, Mapping Global Risk, July 2-6 2012

Posted by pierre.beland on Jul, 20 2012

The World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk and Recovery (GFDRR) organizes the Understanding Risk (UR) Forum every two years. The theme of this second UR forum in Cape Town, South Africa, was “Mapping our Global Risk”. A spatial understanding of vulnerability is central to understanding risk and making informed decisions to reduce that risk. About 400 persons attended that forum. I participated with Kate Chapman and we met very dynamic communities collaborating to this area of studies. The Forum illustrated the important role of Open Data and Open Source communities linked to the World Bank's Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) in these projects. Many innovations were presented. Central America, Haiti and Indonesia Risk Assessment Projects were major initiatives were Open Community contributed in the development of tools presented to this conference (ie. CAPRA, Geonode, InaSAFE, HOT Task Manager).

Out and about in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: An OSM workshop sponsored by the World Bank

Posted by Katrina E. on Jul, 13 2012

My name is Katrina and I am a new addition to the HOT team in Indonesia. My first day of work started out with a morning plane from Jakarta to Yogyakarta, the historic and cultural kingdom of Indonesia. The reason why I call it a kingdom is because it is the only precinct in Indonesia that still contains a king. Unfortunately, Kate, Emir, Vau and I were too busy with the two day workshop to see the king's residences. Hopefully, we can sneak away next time we visit for an intermediate and advanced OSM workshop we will have more time... I would love to map those quarters. The Participants

Return to the training in Saint-Marc, Haiti: mixing generic and specific teaching aid to build strong OSM mapping capacities

Posted by sev_hotosm on Jun, 24 2012

Our previous posts about the Saint-Marc, Haiti project did not focus really about the training made there, what was one the main activities as the objectives were both improving the baseline data and buildings strong local mapping capacities. We wish we would have posted this post earlier, but as it deals with a specific documentation whose main version was in French, we had to clean the English original version so that it fits with all the changes we made in the French one throughout the three months of the program.