YouthMappers Pre-Event at American Spaces.

The State of the Map (SotM) 2024 in Nairobi started with the most exciting YouthMappers pre-event at American Spaces. It was clear that the conference was going to be full of inspiration and action. Our host Laura was there to welcome YouthMappers early birds from different parts of the world gathered in the venue gearing up for the day’s activities just to prepare for the conference.

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As a young researcher and recent graduate (2020) at Sokoine university of agriculture, it was an honor to present and showcase our field project program for Solomon Mahlangu College of Science an Education (SMCoSE) YouthMappers during state of the map Africa 2021(19th -21st November 2021). It was a great experience considering it was my first time on such huge platform with a lot of experienced organizations in OpenStreetMap (OSM) community. Nevertheless we should always take advantage of such opportunities to hear and learn from others, it is from such courage youth especially at universities can develop skills which will help them shape their career goals.

(Before the event)

From the call for participation, I was able to submit our work which was accepted by the state of the map team, it was a great feeling to know that as YouthMappers we could also contribute to ideas which speaks for the challenges and solutions in our communities. Preparations towards the conference was another experience which introduced me on how to prepare online presentations and also interact virtually with organizers. It taught me how to be punctual in responding to emails and properly plan on how to prepare pitches and presentations from various sources and mentors.

During the event.

Lesson learnt 1

https://twitter.com/Crowd2Map/status/1463873169618522123?t=OfpGgqBXHmfbSxEHFtrHJg&s=19 Local communities especially in rural areas including marginalized groups need also to understand these open source tools which have proved to be cost effective and reliable in addressing challenges in several sectors. From the presentation from Janet chapman, these groups are called digital champions. As organizations and groups in OSM, we should cultivate many digital champions, and from this we invest our efforts to the right people.

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Uzoefu wangu katika teknologia ya jeografia umeniwezeha kuchangia majengo mengi katika mji wa ifakara ulipo Morogoro, Tanzania.

watu wengi hawafahamu njia hii rahisi kusaidia jamii zao hususani kwenye jamii maskini ambazo mara nyingi hu athiriwa na majanga kama mafuriko.

openstreetmap ni moja wapo wa jukwaa ambazo humpa mtu uwezo wa kuchangia kwa kuchora ramani za maeneo tofauti kama nyumba na barabara. Kupitia jukwaa hili watu tofauti katika kila fani hutumia taarifa hizi kusaidia jamii hizi.

nitaendelea kutumia OSM kuwezesha faida hizi kwa jamii zetu, wewe je?