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The Growth of OSM Communities in Tanzania Through Community Microgrants

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The Growth of OSM Communities in Tanzania Through Community Microgrants
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The growth of OpenStreetMap communities (OSM) in Tanzania is taking shape as most organizations, institutions, and communities in general, are recognizing the importance of using and contributing to OpenStreetMap data. To support the growth of OSM communities in Tanzania, OpenMap Development Tanzania with her partner the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) awarded microgrants to seven OSM communities in Tanzania - See the supported communities here. The grants provided are supporting these communities to leverage the use of OSM and mapping to help solve different community challenges by facilitating training/workshops, purchasing tools and equipment, supporting staff, and other logistics. Most communities work in peripheral regions with a minimal understanding and use of open data and mapping technologies like OpenStreetMap, OpenDataKit QGIS, etc. The first phase of project implementation ended with great successes and lessons learned from these communities. The general success of the microgrants so far include the following: 1. Transforming communities from using traditional data collection to digital open source tools such as ODK and Kobocollect has greatly improved data management and analysis. For instance, Agri Thamani Foundation and LAVISEHA are among microgrant recipients who are new to OpenStreetMap and other open mapping technologies for generating open data; however, they now use different tools, i.e. Kobotoolbox, OpenDataKit, OSM, and Tasking Manager, to collect data for their interventions in nutrition and gender-based violence. 2. Connecting OSM communities in Tanzania and encouraging collaboration in various tasks and opportunities. The grant provided an opportunity for local OSM communities in Tanzania to work together; a good example is Hope for Girls and Women in Tanzania, giving training to LAVISEHA on how communities can use open source tools like ODK to report the cases of GBV for rescue. 3. Creating awareness about OSM and other communities through participating and presenting in conferences and events such as the State of the Map Africa, Community webinars, etc. 4. Over 16000 building footprints were mapped and 380 km of roads were uploaded to OpenStreetMap by grantees 5. Supporting the growth of youth mappers chapters - Three grant recipients are youth mappers from three different universities who are using the grants to solidify the chapter and get exposure to projects while also applying for other funding to expand their projects Although the microgrant is expected to end in June 2022, OMDTZ is committed to supporting these communities through training and different engagements to ensure they achieve their goal of using open data for decision-making. Together we can add more people to a map by supporting all communities in mapping.
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Hello, everyone. My name is Amor Nyarossi. I work with an organization called Open Map Development Tanzania, which operates across Tanzania. We are working promoting community mapping projects and open data sources, softwares, and the use of open data. So,
last year, through the support from the team, we received funding to support local communities across Tanzania. And the goal of the problem was to provide funding to different communities
in Tanzania, to add more resources to them so they can grow by creating mapping events, buying a lot of mapping equipment like mobile phones, computers, and retailers,
as they are seeing the screen, like for people to have community-defined goals, partnership, inclusivity, collaboration, and expansion. Their program was supposed to take three or six months' duration. And this was among organizations that received the funding the day we were seven, across the whole country. Our country is a little bit huge,
and we are trying to not focus on the big cities, just even peri-urban areas. And they are working in different areas. Some are working in malnutrition, collecting data for malnutrition by using open source tools. Some are collecting data for soil
waste management for flood resilience. And this was a success for the six months that we've been coming across. Firstly, we've managed to transform these communities from using traditional methods for data collection to dicto methods. Some of them
were less exposed to open source software, so through this, we got the chance to use funding to be able to engage into using dicto data collection methods. And also, we support the expansion of youth mappers. In Tanzania, we have a lot of youth mappers chapter, and three chapters have been able to receive funding. And the good thing
with them are two chapters were able to use this project to request more funding, and two of chapters, they received extra funding. One received from a web meteorological organization to scale up their own project in other areas. Also, we connect awesome communities in Tanzania by encouraging each other to collaborate in mapping
events such as mapathons and training events. And also, all of them, for the whole time, they've managed to map more than 44 buildings. For 12,000 buildings, 500 meters of flood, and more than 1,000 amenities, all of them have been
uploaded to OpenSIPMAM. And one thing that we are looking more to them is to include more female and marginalized groups, and 14% of female mappers were included in the mapping. And the map you see now is one of the chapters,
youth mapper chapter that we made. This was supposed to be delivered to the government of Zanzibar for improving education system in Zanzibar. What we have come to learn is this was the first project in OMBTZ to provide
funding to other, not even to work with other OSM communities in Tanzania. So, what we have learned, most of OSM communities in Tanzania have limited access to open source tools, open mapping tools, such as smartphones and laptops. Even, also, most communities are less exposed to OSM tools.
So, this was the biggest chance for them to use this funding to get to know more about open source softwares. And also, Tanzania has a lot of local communities that are working together to create, to solve local problems in the area of interest, in the area of living, but they lack exposure for
open mapping software sources. So, that's it. For more, you can read, we write a lot of blogs and there are slides. And if you stand next to a pod, you can get a lot of information about the organization and other blogs. Thank you.