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Announcing the James Kweku Eshun YouthMappers Mentoring Award
Below is the text of a letter recently sent on behalf of all YouthMappers everywhere to the YouthMappers chapter and University of Cape...
Patricia Solís, Director/CoFounder of YouthMappers
Mar 2, 2019


Where there is a will, there is a way.
Malaria is a parasitic disease that is transmitted between humans through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. While there are four...
Chomba Chishala, University of Zambia
Feb 26, 2019


YouthMappers – Mapping the Unmapped
Bold, Energetic and Innovative. These are the key terms that define today’s youth. They are not afraid of taking risks and have the...
Sushil Rajagopalan, Arizona State University
Feb 19, 2019


Inspiring New Ways
“2019 YouthMappers Leadership Fellowship”, it's just a simple sentence, but I could not measure its weight because for me, it is...
Ataur Rahman Shaheen, Dhaka College
Feb 5, 2019


Update from the field - Kyaka II Refugee Settlement Reconnaissance Trip
2018 YouthMappers Research Fellow, Ingrid Martha Kintu, along with her mentor Anthony Gidudu from Makerere University, Uganda was...
Ingrid Martha Kintu, Makerere University
Jan 29, 2019


Mapping Our Community: Vassar College’s Hudson Valley Mappers’ Inaugural Event
On Wednesday, 14 November 2018, Vassar College students, local high school students, City of Poughkeepsie officials, and community...
Adele Birkenes, Mariah Caballero, Vassar College
Jan 23, 2019


YouthMappers CURAT and OpenDCH
My name is Guy Pacome Adingra I am a PhD student at the University Center for Research and Application in Remote Sensing (CURAT) at the...
Guy Pacome Adingra, Felix Houphouet Boigny Uni
Dec 27, 2018


The Rise of Drones and Open Source Programming
The world we inhabit today is changing faster than it ever has before. We are riding a wave of technological advancements that can seem...
Adam Wells, California University of Pennsylvania
Dec 17, 2018


Introducing the 2019 YouthMappers Leadership Fellows!
Next month, the 2019 Leadership Fellows will convene at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa for a nine-day workshop....
YouthMappers Staff
Dec 13, 2018


The Importance of Open Source in The Global Mapping Community
Open source software can generally be defined as software that anyone can freely access and modify the source code for [1]. Many popular...
Katie Hackett, University of Victoria
Dec 10, 2018
An Introduction to LIDAR Technology
Although global development and economic growth has reduced poverty by the millions, the impacts of changing climates still pose as a...
Helen Wang, University of Victoria
Nov 27, 2018


Climate and Disease: Can the Environment Predict Transmission Risk?
Introduction: Climate and Disease In my home state of Pennsylvania, we are again experiencing a hotter-than-average summer. Additionally,...
Emily Evenden, The George Washington University
Nov 20, 2018


YouthMapping for Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction
Now the world is fetching different types of Natural disasters because the climate is changing. As mappers, we cannot directly reduce the...
Md. Manjurul Islam, Dhaka College
Nov 12, 2018


My Experience Participating In Opencities Accra Project
My name is Chris Eshun, a third-year Geomatic Engineering student at the University of Mines and Technology,Tarkwa, Ghana. I am the...
Chris Eshun, University of Mines and Technology
Nov 6, 2018


3rd Annual Central Appalachia Mapathon
There was good energy walking into Brooks Hall on this chilly October day. Most West Virginia University students were on their fall...
Adam Wells, California University of Pennsylvania
Nov 1, 2018


The SOCIAL media
The world is a connected place. We live in proximity to one another not only through physical means but also through cyberspace. With a...
Harraz Mohd Reza, University of Northern Colorado
Oct 23, 2018


How to Use Humanitarian Openstreetmap Data in Research
You have a great research idea. You know the location and the type of data you need. But where can you get the data sets from?...
Shannon Curley, SUNY Geneseo
Oct 19, 2018


Mapping at the Forefront of Fighting Urban Displacement
Hi! My name is David Zaro and I am currently a rising sophomore at George Washington University studying International Affairs and...
David Zaro, The George Washington University
Oct 16, 2018


Where Virtual Mapping Reveals Veritable Refuge
“Girls in safehouses, we stay with them until the end of the seasonal cutting. At the end of the season, we visit their families in order...
Rachel Levy, New York University
Oct 11, 2018


YouthMappers: Putting Together the Soybean Value Chain Puzzle
This blog was written by Faustina Lina Yebooah, Anthony Acquah and Daniel Osei, students from the University of Cape Coast chapter of...
Faustina Lina Yebooah, Anthony Acquah, Daniel Osei
Oct 9, 2018
