Hi, my name is Rachel Layko, and I am a student at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. This past summer I...

“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth…these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots...

Hi, my name is Yessica De Los Ríos Olarte, I am studying Biology at the Universidad de Antioquia, and I had the opportunity to...

This summer I studied abroad in Belize, Central America. While in Belize, I organized and facilitated two workshops focused on...

MAPATHON AT YALI REGIONAL LEADERSHIP CENTER A Mapathon was held at Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Regional Leadership Center...

Tommy G D Charles presented at the State of the Map 2017 in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan on the necessary inclusion of small and young...

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free and open online map, constructed through crowd-sourced volunteer contributions. Anyone can add to it,...

As a graduate student in the City and Regional Planning program at Clemson University, I was introduced to Geographic Information Systems...

Expansion and presence of the YouthMappers network has recorded a precedent increase on OpenStreetMap edits. With more than 15 million...

The majority of the Kenyan population is made up of 45% of young people. However, almost half of new HIV/AIDS infections are among...

Hello, my name is Naa Dedei Tagoe, a Geomatics Engineer by profession and a Lecturer at the University of Mines and Technology in Ghana,...

We are very excited to reveal the new YouthMappers interactive chapter map! Now, you can search for a YouthMappers chapter by zooming...

YouthMappers have been working to edit the people's map, OpenStreetMap, in support of many development and humanitarian efforts. From...

Once upon a time 7 month ago I saw an email saying I was going to Nepal for a YouthMappers Leadership Fellows Initiative 2017, it said...

Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project aiming to put rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015, we have been adding schools,...

The second Africa Open Data Conference (AODC) took place in Accra, Ghana from July 17– 21, 2017. The conference aimed to strengthen the...

Like many people my age, the first time I heard of drones was in a military-context. Calculated killers – drones to me were nothing more...

I'm basically in diapers when we talk about mapping, open data, or how both are used for community development. Even so, I was given the...

“Hello! My name is Ben and I’m from Ghana. I like to…” then Ben slid his arm forward simulating the movements in a game of chess on an...

The world is getting smaller day by day as it offers you the power to explore the diversity of the world map on your fingertips....