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By training high school and university students, GAL School Peru aims to create map data that supports student research projects on gender issues, such as equal pay and access to health services, and other social issues affecting their community.
Regina Campos at GAL School wants to improve education in Peru. Specifically, she wants to improve high school and university students' access to technology, improve tech skills, and collect missing data on important social issues affecting their community. Her tool? Maps. “Mapping for me is really important to the development of education and even the development of Peru,” says Regina. “I learned how to map a year ago and I found it is an important and innovative tool for teaching.”



GAL School, based in Cusco, has been teaching high school and university students how to use digital mapping to collect information that is important to them, such as gender discrimination or waste disposal. “We have been training students for two years and we have now trained around…

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The latest Tweets from HOTOSM (@hotosm). 🗺️ Global Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. #OSM for humanitarian response and economic development.

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The latest Tweets from UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA). The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) provides the info, tools, support & advocacy that enables humanitarians to save lives

The latest Tweets from HOTOSM (@hotosm). 🗺️ Global Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. #OSM for humanitarian response and economic development.

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HOT Tasking Manager is a mapping tool designed and built for the Humanitarian OSM Team collaborative mapping.

The latest Tweets from HOTOSM (@hotosm). 🗺️ Global Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. #OSM for humanitarian response and economic development.

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The latest Tweets from HOTOSM (@hotosm). 🗺️ Global Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. #OSM for humanitarian response and economic development.

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Since the community’s creation in 2016, OSM Sierra Leone has worked to create university mapping chapters, partner with the Red Cross and other organizations, to increase the quality of maps across the country. The community is seeking to expand its impact, training more individuals and increasing the diversity of their community, particularly with female mappers.

When Tommy Charles first visited a slum on the outskirts of his city, Freetown, Sierra Leone, he was shocked by the lack of basic services. “I went to visit the slum communities along the seaside that had been experiencing annual flooding and fire outbreaks,” says Tommy.  “But when I got there, I saw they had no running water or health facilities. They had poor drainage and garbage disposal methods.”

Tommy, who is a member of OpenStreetMap (OSM) Sierra Leone and OSM Africa communities, knew that if he didn’t know what life was like in the slum, then others wouldn’t either. Because when you’re not represented on a map, your community and the services…

The latest Tweets from Mental Health aWHEREness (@MHawhereness). We map mental health services to provide info to people to seek help w/o telling others until they’re ready to do so; & to tell govt where services are needed. Quezon City

The latest Tweets from OpenStreetMap (@openstreetmap). OpenStreetMap is the free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. everywhere

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