Fwd: Invite to the Partnering for Humanitarian Good Mapathon this Wednesday
Patrick Dufour
OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week 2016 Main Event
Partnering for Humanitarian Good Mapathon
We invite you to join us from 5pm to 9pm this Wednesday, November 16, at OpenGovHub (1110 Vermont Ave NW #500, Washington, DC 20005) (venue location)
Please RSVP by Registering on the EventBrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/partnering-for-humanitarian-good-mapathon-openstreetmap-geoweek-2016-main-event-tickets-29304935852)
Don’t forget to bring a laptop! Newcomers are welcome and encouraged to attend, training will be provided.
We will be mapping unmapped areas around Africa’s Lake Victoria and improve our ability to combat HIV/AIDS. Via lightning talks, short presentations, and a mapathon, you will learn about and contribute to mapping areas around the world to assist ongoing humanitarian, development, and public health efforts, alongside other communities participating around the world in OSM Geography Awareness Week2016. This event is part of highlighting National Geography Awareness Week, November 13 to 19.
OSM GeoWeek calls on teachers, students, community groups, governments, the private sector, map lovers, and motivated individuals (including those with no previous mapping experience!) to come together to celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free and openly editable map of the world.
Hear inspiring examples from in and outside the U.S. government of how mapping has helped humanitarian and development work - from the global AIDS response to preparing for and responding to earthquakes and other disasters. Join the movement as we collaborate together and work in teams to create new data to be used by partners worldwide to support humanitarian and development work.
Many organizations are partnering for this OSM GeoWeek 2016 Keynote Event, including the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Missing Maps, the U.S. Department of State (MapGive), USAID (YouthMappers), the Peace Corps, National Geographic, and the World Bank’s GFDRR.
Join the conversation at #osmgeoweek. We look forward to mapping with you on the 16th!
Featured project: PEPFAR Mapping Project Presentation, Paul Zeitz, Director of the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development
The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will introduce mapping tasks in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, which border Lake Victoria. The spatial data that you generate will improve our understanding of HIV/AIDS program coverage, the optimization of supply-chain logistics, and the analysis of clinical site-level data in locations until now unmapped.
Introduction by Tyler Radford, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Lightning talk #1: Preparing a Disaster Preparedness Plan for Pokhara, Nepal; Kathmandu Living Labs & Secondary Cities, presented by Laura Cline, U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Geographer
Lightning talk #2: Using OpenStreetMap in Disaster Response and Recovery, presented by Matt Gibb, American Red Cross.
Lightning talk #3: Malaria Prevention via OpenStreetMap, presented by Chad Blevins, USAID GeoCenter
-The MapGive Team