OpenStreetMap
First i would like to thank you to Emir Hartato for the nomination. I really appreciate and happy to take this chance to become HOT Voting Member. With this diary, i would like to give my statement for several question related that:
How did you become involved in HOT
I began involved in HOT after i graduated from University. At September 2012, HOT Indonesia open opportunity to became Trainer and involved in their SD4CP Project. Not only this if the first time I involved in HOT but also this is my first time to involved in OpenStreetMap. I began to teach local government and community about the benefit of open source software and OpenStreetMap related to Disaster Management. Not only training I also help to support local government, community and creating training material with team. From Septermber 2012 - Present, I’m lucky that i’m still working in HOT Indonesia and learn many experience here.
Could you tell us about your involvement in HOT, mapping and/or humanitarian response?
Since i became the HOT Staff in September 2012, i involved in many activities and projects here, from training, creating materials, mapping event, activation, etc. Right now i also involved in Activation Working Group since i attended the Activation Sprint and HOT Summit. My current humanitarian response i think was when EQ in Afghanistan. I joined the activation for EQ in Afghanistan to implement the skill that i learn from Activation Workshop in Jakarta as Data and Validation role.
What does HOT mean to you?
In my opinion, HOT means disaster response and mapping. Without HOT, i wont know how useful OpenStreetMap in terms of Humanitarian Response and i wont know that you can help save people live or support disaster only with armchair mapping. HOT also the one who bring OpenStreetMap Indonesia community begin to growth in Indonesia.