Looking back to 2019,I have the following bits of contributions and moments for my diary record in favour of OpenStreetMap Community and sustainability.

1 . Initiated and hosted series of planing meetings to activate community participation ,growth and expansion of OpenStreetMap Community in Nigeria ,especially,in January 2019.

2 . Contributed and also advocated for HOT Microgrant 2019 donations

3 . Applied for HOT Microgrant 2019 to drive Local community projects in Nigeria but luck was not on our side

4 . Participated in Regional Meetings for OSM Africa Coordination ,especially,when,time permits

5 . In April ,I made sure my local community hosted International Women Day (IWD)2019 to drive gender equality in mapping community and geospatial women empowerment.This also was used to campaign for LetGirlsMap program. For me ,this event has come to stay after succesully hosting it same period in 2018. For 2019 IWD ,the event was tagged :Geospatial Technology the Solution for Women Transformation:Balance for better.

6 . From July to August ,facilitated Mapathon training for Local UniqueMappers Communities at Abia State,Imo State ,Enugu State and Anambra State respectively in Nigeria

7 . Started up UniqueMappers Awka at Nmandi Azikiwe University Awka with the help of Prof.Ifeanyi Enete who mobilzed compus community members comprising of students and staff

8 . Started up UniqueMappers Yola credits to Nnadozie Onyeukwu (State Coordinator) and Saliha who worked very hard to kick-start activities for this local team of UniqueMappers without me travelling to Adamawa state to coordinate.And todate their whatsaap group is quite lively and with active osmites.

9 . Finally succeeded in getting UniqueMappers registered with the Federal Government of Nigeria as the NGO for OpenStreetMap Nigeria Community.This would help to re-position our OSM community efforts for effective project and stake-holders driven community engagement

10 . I missed the State of the Map Conference in Germany and Cote d’ Ivoire -State of the Map Africa ,as well as HOT Summit 2019 in Germany,due to unavailability of travel fund,but ,no worries because,I already had a good deal from FOSS4G2019 Bucharest ,thanks ,to UNFPA for such an amazing support ,giving me opportunity to break the virtual barrier to interact with Prof .Maria Broveli (My OSM Research Mentor) ,Marco and so many others.

11 . And for GODAN giving me the opportunity to meet with Nathalie Sidibe,Enoch Faneva and other OSM Africa Community members for the first time ,tinkering around the use of OSM for agriculture and nutrition at the African Geospatial Data and Internet Conference (AGDIC) 2019 in Ghana .It was all about using OSM and GeoForAll to drive SDG 2

12 . ANd no worries yet,because,I had 2 of my local community leaders:Ezugwu Victor and Mary Marcellineous who also attended the state of the map Africa in Cote d’ Ivoire….Thanks to Geoffery Kateregga for the support

13 . Thanks to Victor Ezeuqwu and Geoffery Keteregga for a good job at the NYSC camp mobilizing and training more than 1000 graguate youths to help us start up a local community at UniqueMappers Kogi .Looking forward to more active participation and coordination via Victor Ezugwu-State Coordinator-UniqueMappers-Kogi

14 . Mobilized to Celebrate UniqueMappers Nigeria 2nd Anniversary and OSM 15 Anniversary…It was also time for the community to have fun

15 . Had meeting with Tyler Radford for Capacity building support ,and other meetings and mails over quality mapping issues in Nigeria OSM.Thanks to Andrew Wiseman and Chad Bevin for your support and follow-ups

16 . Had Mapping Tasks for Disaster Risk Reduction and academic research for Oill Spill community response mapathons.

17 . Had not less than 100 newbies signed up to OSM via community growth and expansion in Nigeria

18 .In december,I led local community leaders to the field for Community drone Mapping in preparation of our next Mapathon to drive #SDG2

19 . Recorded on closing for 2019 more than 140,000 edits on the UniqueMappersTeam missing maps leaders board http://www.missingmaps.org/leaderboards/#/uniquemappersteam

20 . I also campaigned and coordinated #OSMGeoweek2019 event in various parts of Nigeria in November.And it was also time for us to reach out to the high schools for an inclusive community.

21.Yea,I also applied with Local leaders to host State of the Map Africa 2019,but ,we lost it to Cote d’ Voire .A good experience to prepare best for the next opportunity,at all we are growing bigger and stronger with both private and public sector involvement in OSM Nigeria.

22 . And you know as a lecturer,I was able to smoothly introduce and teach OSM as part of my course content for undergraduate digital Cartography and Open Source Cartography,and to see students dealing with such questions as ‘’ Discuss OpenStreetMap as a Wikipedia of Cartography’’

23 . Had my students research projects data open Source GIS and OSM-driven,increasing UniqueMappers SDG target for quality education.

24 . As a HOT Voting Member ,and community working group member as well as OpenStreetMap Foundation member,I had more time to building the Local Community than participation at the global community.

Will add more ……..later…..but I want to say thank you to every who made it possible for me to impact in one way or the other via OSM Community in Nigeria and beyond !!