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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

GIS Responses to COVID-19: Mapping Community Resources in Dutchess County, New York

Adele Birkenes and Siennah Yang, Vassar College Alumni

Apr 3, 2020

GIS Responses to COVID-19: Mapping Community Resources in Dutchess County, New York

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adele Birkenes, Vassar College ‘20, and Siennah Yang, Vassar College ‘18, created an interactive...

Tommy G D Charles, Fourah Bay College

Mar 26, 2020

The Journey of A YouthMapper

I’m Tommy Charles, a Geographer and a Youth Mapper from a very beautiful West African country called Sierra Leone (Lion Mountains). I say...

Saurav Gautam, Regional Ambassador

Mar 20, 2020

The Joy of Sharing

On the second of November 2019, in the 3D Auditorium of Krishibid Institute Dhaka, the presenter opened up with a question “What is the...

Kshitij Raj Sharma, Tribhuvan University

Mar 13, 2020

Our journey from OSM To Village

I am student of Geomatics Engineering. As a member of GESAN I got to know about open data and how it can be used through various programs...

BALANCE FOR BETTER IN GEO-SPATIAL YOUTH EMPOWERMENT:
My 2019 experience with the Unique Mappers Tea

NDEYI Queeneth Chinaza, University Port Harcourt

Mar 5, 2020

BALANCE FOR BETTER IN GEO-SPATIAL YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: My 2019 experience with the Unique Mappers Tea

‘Balance For better’ is a workshop that was organised by the Unique Mappers team to campaign for LetGirlsMap as part of the International...

Unforgettable outing of a YouthMapper - AGDIC 2019, Accra - Ghana

Ibrahima Sory Diallo, Université Gaston Berger

Feb 27, 2020

Unforgettable outing of a YouthMapper - AGDIC 2019, Accra - Ghana

“A joint development initiative of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and United States Agency for International...

Dennis Irorere, YouthMappers Regional Ambassador

Feb 20, 2020

#ThrowbackThursday: SOTMUS 2019

It has been a few months since the State of the Map US 2019 and this blog is already starting to feel old. Part of the delay is due to my...

Interning remotely with YouthMappers & USAID GeoCenter

Shawna Bjorgan, Arizona State University

Feb 13, 2020

Interning remotely with YouthMappers & USAID GeoCenter

Background I am an electrician. Specifically, I’m an AE2 in the USN. For those of you that don’t communicate primarily in acronyms, I am...

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