By Janet CHAPMAN | Project Leader
It has been a difficult year for everyone, and we hope you are staying safe. In previous years we've managed to organise large scale events in Tanzania for Open Data Day on March 6th. In 2020 we had an event with Open Map for Development Tanzania in Dar es Salaam.
This year we had a virtual event with a focus on gender data for Tanzania. We had a great range of speakers from Tanzania, Kenya, Europe and the US on different aspects such as education, health, agriculture and access to finance and technology. This was followed by a discussion on the importance of such disagregated data to promote gender equality and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. You can see the presentations here and watch the recording here.
We also had a small training session in Matare village, Serengeti, where we are starting a project to monitor progress towards the SDGs at a village level.
We also talked about the project at various events such as this one for Tech(K)Now here, and the World Summit on the Information Forum where we talked about the Digital Divide and how the Digital Champions project we set up with Hope is addressing this.
Finally, for International Women's Day we held an online mapathon with American Red Cross, in which over 200 women helped map our projects..
This month we hope to extend the Digital Champions project to Butiama District. We are also arranging various online events for Innovation Week in Tanzania to help spread the word and recruit more volunteer mappers.
Thank you again for your generosity in supporting this project.
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By Janet CHAPMAN | Project Leader
By Janet CHAPMAN | Project Leader
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