Local open mapping initiatives in Rwanda and Nicaragua – Open Knowledge International Blog

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"This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2018. On Saturday 3 March, groups from around the world organised over 400 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. 45 events received additional support through the Open Knowledge International mini-grants scheme, funded by Hivos, SPARC, Mapbox, the Hewlett Foundation and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The events in this blog were supported through the mini-grants scheme under the Open Mapping theme.

Local open mapping initiatives are those that end up giving flavor to the world of mapping. It must be because you end up with a product and you generate a data that directly influences your community. Two chapters of the YouthMappers network allowed themselves to be seized by this feeling and carried out two events during this year’s celebration of the Open Data Day. Two projects, two different sites and themes that converge in the same goal: the development of their local communities. Let’s start with the YouthMappers in INES-Ruhengeri. They created open data for the Kangondo Slum neighborhood in the city of Kigali, Rwanda. The Kangondo slum is the largest slum in Rwanda in the Grade A area (upper area) of the city of Kigali. All the houses in the area are not well planned and the crowded houses lack basic needs such as potable water, adequate sanitation and adequate sewage. The created open data will be used for the marginal neighborhood improvement process (Slum upgrading). For them, this activity was a good opportunity to share not only the importance of open data in the development of the local community with attending authorities, but also a time to discuss the use of open data to address local development challenges...."

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https://blog.okfn.org/2018/04/10/local-open-mapping-initiatives-in-rwanda-and-nicaragua/

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oa.new oa.rwanda oa.nicaragua oa.africa oa.latin_america oa.geo oa.visualizations oa.data oa.south

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04/11/2018, 14:25

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04/11/2018, 10:25