By Janet CHAPMAN | Project Leader
Mapping rural Tanzania is a huge job so we place great importance in building partnerships with anyone sharing our aims. One partnership we are particularly proud of is with Youthmappers.
Youthmappers is a global network of student run mapping groups that now has over 200 chapters, 16 of which are in Tanzania, many of which we helped to establish. They organise mapping activities as part of their field work, their studies, for interest and for fun.
Many of the Youthmapper groups are in quite rural areas and their colleges do not have very good access to technology or a history of teaching about geospatial technology. Therefore we are working hard to develop links between the different groups so that less well established groups can learn from those with more experience.
To this end we have set up monthly mapathons via zoom. Each month a different groups presents their work. Last month we heard from Sokoine University in Morogoro about they are working with the local council to help them improve flood resilience. You can see the slides here, and see recordings for all of our trainings on our YouTube channel here.
And if you'd like to know more please join us for the next event here.
Thank you again for your generosity!
Janet
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