Anticipatory action , mapping for landslides and flooding preparedness in the north western provinces of Rwanda

Project Launch with Online Mapping of 50,000 Buildings

The rainy season, from April to June always reminds us that we need to be more than ready, but one would wonder why? We have our brothers and sisters who reside in northern and western provinces who are periodically exposed to the consequences of climate change and experience extreme weather and heavy rain every season. We have resolved to not sit and wait again, so we have decided to take action, Not the heavy one to uplift or relocate every one in high risk but do what we do the best. mapping!
And our story here demonstrates that if we map together, we will overcome the disasters together. especially landslides upstream causing flooding downstream on a periodic frequency.

Saturday 27th April 2024 marked the launch of the Anticipatory action.

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Eco Mappers OSM Rwanda ODD,

As we commemorated International Open Data Day and International Women’s Day, we embarked on a journey to intertwine these essential themes for equitable development. On Saturday, March 9, 2021, amidst a global celebration of Open Data Day, our event in Rwanda stood as a beacon of empowerment, bringing together over 50 enthusiastic participants eager to delve into the world of open data.

Before delving into the event’s highlights, it’s crucial to acknowledge the significance of Open Data Day. With more than 60 events worldwide, it underscores the global community’s commitment to promoting open data’s usage and accessibility. Thanks to the support from key funders, including the Open Knowledge Foundation, these events serve as catalysts for change, fostering collaboration and innovation.

Ahead of our event,

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OpenStreetMap Rwanda Monthly Mapathon 2024 Updates.

24th Feb 2024.

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Never Stop learning Because OpenStreetMap Never Stop upgrading

We’ve got to know that slow by slow makes journey. I encourage Local communities as well as underrepresented ones ,Mothers , Girls To keep mapping as long as it gives fun and no specific time to do so. Map in your lovely moments slow by slow we shall have a Women community of active Mappers.

OSM Rwanda community.

Good Morning dear fellow mappers ! It has been always a pleasure to share the exciting story from State of The Map Africa 2021 . in 2017 I attended in person conference in Kampala Uganda it was awesome and great we interacted , learned, shared experience, as well as connecting with different communities , and that is the only state I had in my mind.

I never new that an online virtual conference would be super great as this one we had this year after Pandemic slowing dawn , and of course because of the pandemic , a lot of challenges was there in some communities , some were no longer really active as before , in some local communities were no skills to be able to attend virtual meetings because of different reasons , for some of the Local community members it was not easy to cope with the virtual big conference Platform.

Nevertheless all the challenges , But also This conference opportunities included most of us , The fact that organizes could support everyone who showed interest to participate, as well as data reimbursement and most all , the way program were organized talks, Presentations, Testimonies as well as Mapping Marathon Increased our motive about OSM in general. This marks the social Interesting part of 2021 State of The Map Africa I would love to share with everyone. Have a good day.

Nitwa Nyinawumuntu Jeannete Rebecca ! nka ndumwe mubagize umuryango mutoya wa OSM Rwanda nka nanawubereye umuyobozi, mumwaka wa 2017 nitabibiriye SOTM Africa muri uganda icyo gihe icyorezo cyari kitaratera kwari uguhurira hamwe nibihugu bitandukanye, twahagiriye ibihe byiza twahuye na za kominote nyishi ziturutse hirya no hino kwisi ndetse ubunararibonye bwazo twabwigiyeho byinshi

Ariko muruyu wa 2021 SOTM Africa yabereye kuri murandasi yaradutunguye cyane ntago twari twitezeko izatunyura bingana kuriya kuko ntago twari tubimenyereye Gusa igitangaje nuko naho twagise experience nziza ibiganiro byayo twari tumeze nkabahuye barikumwe muri salon neza neza!

habayeho Mapping Marathon ishimishije nubwo bamwe batabashije gutanga umusanzu nyawo ,kubera impanvu zubunararibonye budahagije ariko twigiyemo byishi , yewe dufata ningamba zitandukanye zishingiye kubyavugiwemo.

Mbonereho gushimira byumwihariko abagize uruhare mugutegura iyi State of the Map Africa ya 2021.

During the State of the Map Africa 2021 conference especially on theme of leaving no one behind and underrepresented communities as well as emerging from a global pandemic, as a women I understood the importance of inclusion and equity, I got to know the role of Representing a local community in the geospatial data collection on the OSM and discovered that is no longer impossible but it easy and applicable on any achievable scare any local growing Local community can afford .

Therefore, with all the ideas speakers emphasized at the conference we fully explored the topic of Beyond mapping and Reusing Open Street Map data/FOSS4G where we were able to learn how community can make use of available Geodata for personal and institutional development.

Also taking about the free software we were able to understand further the four major advantages that come with the free software like the run, improve, share , and Study. Generally, on our side, the experience was good especially the marathon, keynotes from different speakers, panel discussions, and lightning talks were really exciting . During this conference, I came to learn about the Open Mapping Hub ESA and the roles the hub has played to expand the Mapping communities in the region through the funding of various projects like the Open Cities Project in collaboration with other international institution.

In fact what I can say is, yes we still have a lot to learn about challenges and opportunities available , as well as tools to use . but the biggest interest everyone took as a take away considering my local community members who managed to attend , is that , it is no longer impossible for women , mothers and underrepresented community youths in general .

As a Rwandan young woman a mother and a teacher it was an honor to attend STATE OF THE MAP Africa for the second time , it was a great experience to attend such huge platform online after pandemic loneliness. I was excited to see and to hear from other experienced OSM communities , it was fun! I was impressed to my fellow Rwandan community member joining for the first time and Youth Mappers as well, the Team is now hungry and willing to learn more about advanced mapping on OSM.

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