Tag: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team

  • Missing Maps talk at Impact Hub Bergen

    How can we combine technology and digitalisation with doing good? That is the main focus for the 2017 Impact Night series organized by and at the Impact Hub Bergen. Last evenings Impact Night was about Tech for Change and disaster response. Therefore the Impact Hub team invited Per Aarvik, President of the StandbyTaskForce, Sam Applebee,…

  • Missing Maps Mapathon at Makerspace (DAI) – OSM for Malaria Elimination

    Many regions of our world are not covered on a map. Maps are however an important tool for planning vaccination campaigns and for ensuring medical supplies. Places that are not covered in a map are in many cases nonexistent for authorities and other organizations. We want to change this situation – with your help- and…

  • Mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil

    We want to welcome the year 2017 with a mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil! When: 19.01.2017, 18:00 Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48 This time we will focus on Aweil, the capital of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The region is home to tens of thousands of people, many of whom…

  • GIScience Research Group support for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team Fundraising Campaign

    One main focus of the GIScience Research Group is the research and education with respect to advancing methods, technologies and applications of Volunteered Geographic Information – in particular OpenStreetMap – for applications from logistics to humanitarian aid. In this vein, the group has been also been supporting the work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) team…