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Shabani Magawila and Herry Kasunga, UDOM &IRDP

Sep 3, 2020

A Mappy Weekend in Dodoma, Tanzania

On the 22nd and 23rd of August 2020, Crowd2Map Tanzania organized and hosted training sessions for YouthMappers chapters at the Institute...

Prajwal Shrestha, Tribhuvan University- Lamjung

Aug 27, 2020

Mapping My Journey Through OSM

The virtual talk about a new organization forming in our college got everyone’s attention. The initial thought was of an agriculture-rela...

Ethiopian Students Just Started Making Maps

Yared Moges, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology

Aug 20, 2020

Ethiopian Students Just Started Making Maps

The first YouthMappers chapter was recently created at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From the engineering campus, Addi...

YouthMappers un Gran Aliado/YouthMappers a Great Ally

María Fernanda Peña Valencia, Regional Ambassador

Aug 13, 2020

YouthMappers un Gran Aliado/YouthMappers a Great Ally

The analysis, modeling and visualization of geospatial information allows us to better understand our environment, and its scope. And the...

How YouthMappers Are Contributing to 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Chomba and Yusuf, Regional Ambassadors

Aug 6, 2020

How YouthMappers Are Contributing to 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

A lot of you might be wondering what exactly is YouthMappers, or better still how YouthMappers links with the UN SDGs. Questions like the...

Jariatou Jallow, University of the Gambia

Jul 30, 2020

Map2020 Gambia- KomboYon

The aim of this project is to find the shortest and fastest driving routes to the University of the Gambia, Kanifing South. Kanifing is t...

Cristina M. Gómez B., Universidad de Panamá

Jul 23, 2020

Propuesta de Ordenamiento Ecológico

Proposal for Ecological Management in the Area of Influence of the Tapagra Hydrological Reserve and Wetland Bay of Panama, Micro-Basins o...

Calling All Students: Now is the Time to Learn a New Skill- Mapping!

Dara Carney-Nedelman, Communications Specialist

Jul 16, 2020

Calling All Students: Now is the Time to Learn a New Skill- Mapping!

Hello, YouthMappers! Due to the pandemic, I imagine summer plans for you and many other students didn't turn out how they were planned. I...

How to Easily Use Open Source Software Technologies to Face COVID-19 in Your Region

María, Ingrid, and Natália, Regional Ambassadors

Jul 9, 2020

How to Easily Use Open Source Software Technologies to Face COVID-19 in Your Region

The Impacts of COVID-19 survey on KoboToolbox Efforts worldwide have shown the power that digital technology offers to face global threat...

Hudson Valley Mappers reflects on a year-long community mapping partnership

Adele Birkenes, Vassar College

Jun 25, 2020

Hudson Valley Mappers reflects on a year-long community mapping partnership

Hudson Valley Mappers reflects on a year-long community mapping partnership with No Child Left Inside and two years as a YouthMappers cha...

Diary of a Regional Ambassador: Travel and Work Flow

Kwame Odame, Regional Ambassador

Jun 18, 2020

Diary of a Regional Ambassador: Travel and Work Flow

While Ghana could boast of 6 YouthMappers chapters, which are mainly concentrated along the south of the country, the opportunity to serv...

Ingrid Kintu, Regional Ambassador

Jun 11, 2020

Silent Disasters

The past few months have been very trying for many individuals and countries at large, with the COVID-19 pandemic composing a big part of...

Laura Mugeha, Regional Ambassador

Jun 4, 2020

3 Years, 3 Stories, 3 Lessons Learnt

The dawn of a new beginning - Something new, Axwell Ingrosso (Yes it’s a song :)) “Dear Laura, thank you for signing up for news and upda...

YouthMappers Supporting COVID-19 Relief Through HOT Rapid Response Microgrant: COVID-19

Haji Wamala Fawaz, Makerere University

May 28, 2020

YouthMappers Supporting COVID-19 Relief Through HOT Rapid Response Microgrant: COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting communities across the globe in many shapes and forms. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is en...

SHARING IS CARING – How to ensure diversity inclusion among YouthMappers: Post-COVID-19.

Stellamaris Wavamunno Nakacwa, Regional Ambassador

May 21, 2020

SHARING IS CARING – How to ensure diversity inclusion among YouthMappers: Post-COVID-19.

YouthMappers is a student movement across the globe building and steering generational leaders through application of open source and web...

Shabani Magawila, IRDP

May 15, 2020

IRDP YouthMappers Field Work Report

1.0 Introduction The training was conducted to ensure YouthMappers at IRDP (Institute of Rural Development Planning) start to use modern ...

Mapping of Food Outlets on University of Ghana Campus, Phase One and Two: A Field Paper and Open Dat

Michael Batame, University of Ghana

May 7, 2020

Mapping of Food Outlets on University of Ghana Campus, Phase One and Two: A Field Paper and Open Dat

As they say, to whom much is given much is expected. We as YouthMappers of the University of Ghana are always on the move. We are the mov...

Yusuf Suleiman, Regional Ambassador

May 1, 2020

Learning from State of the Map Africa

I've heard that conferences are spaces to network, present your works and learn from outside your field as well, but State of the Map Afr...

Confidence Kdopo, University of Cape Coast

Apr 17, 2020

State of the Map Africa

SotM Africa 2019 held in Ivory Coast was my first ever SotM Africa conference. The conference lasted for three days from 21st November, 2...

Unforgettable Experience with YouthMappers in 2019

Sabina Abuga, University of Cape Coast

Apr 10, 2020

Unforgettable Experience with YouthMappers in 2019

YouthMappers is an international consortium of university students mapping clubs, with local chapters in universities of various countrie...

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