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Students and their faculty advisors in the US and in developing nations are invited to join YouthMappers, an international university consortium on Mapping for Resilience.  The consortium organizes a global community of learners, researchers, educators, and scholars to create and use open geographic data that directly address locally defined development challenges worldwide.  

The program supports university efforts to offer meaningful global learning experiences, build a socially engaged citizenry, enhance long-term scientific capacity around the world, and foster youth leadership.

Affiliation offers the chance to network with others around the world and exchange information, ideas, and results and to find ways to apply knowledge to development decision making. University students and their advisors  receive instruction, model syllabi and teaching and learning resources to develop and improve open mapping inside and outside of the classroom.

Participating researchers benefit from the development and exchange about spatial analytical methods that lead to greater understanding of resilience. There is no cost for affiliation or enjoying the benefits of being a part of the consortium. ​

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Begin by starting a youth-led chapter of YouthMappers on your campus. Then join in the various activities of data creation that the network promotes that directly serves development needs in the international community.