Awesome. Congrats to all the YouthMappers leaders Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Solis, Patricia <patricia.so...@ttu.edu> wrote: > Dear HOT community, > > One year ago today, we celebrated the *launch > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dca0dUQfU6c>* of this adventure now > known as YouthMappers. The university *consortium > <http://www.youthmappers.org/chapters>* we are building around Mapping > for Resilience has grown in a short time to encompass 42 universities in 13 > countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The approximate one > thousand students who make up this network have now contributed more than 4 > million edits to OpenStreetMap that directly support geospatial data needs > for development and humanitarian *projects > <http://www.youthmappers.org/projects-1>*. The *voices > <http://www.youthmappers.org/faces-voices>* of young people around the > world are being heard. With every change to the map, YouthMappers are > changing minds about what young leaders can do today to make a difference > in our world. > > Many people are to thank for making this past year so surprisingly > successful, and it has been my honor to work with each and every one of > you. The vision of Carrie Stokes, Director of the USAID GeoCenter in the > US Global Development Lab has propelled us into this movement. Her team, > including Chad Blevins, indispensible leader of the Mapping for Resilience > program, Michael Crino, our valued program officer, and many others in DC > and in the various USAID Missions, have enabled us to connect the vibrant > energy on our campuses to the authentic and important work of the > humanitarian and development community. > > > *Tyler Radford, Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and his > crew have been essential in helping us integrate smoothly into the HOT > community, and we are grateful. To many others at Peace Corps, MapGive, > Red Cross, Missing Maps, and beyond, we appreciate your welcoming us from > the global academic community. * > Our founding team at George Washington University, West Virginia > University and Texas Tech University have poured their hearts and dedicated > their talents to building mappers, not just maps. My CoPIs Brent McCusker > and Nuala Cowan in particular have shared and shaped this vision, > contributing such creativity and camaraderie essential to our success. For > all their guidance, knowledge, and efforts, we also appreciate Jamison > Conley, Mike Mann, Ryan Enstrom, Richard Hinton, Marie Price, Guofeng Cao, > Kevin Mulligan, Carlos Portillo, and Duane Nellis. Thanks as well to our > partners at UGCIS, American Geographical Society, GISCI, TeachOSM and > Mapillary for adding value to this endeavor for our students. *Our local > capacity building collaborators from HOT and elsewhere on the ground have > accomplished deep impacts that give us real reason to celebrate: Humberto > Yances in Colombia; James Eshun and Enock Seth Nyamador in Ghana; Douglas > Ssebaggala in Uganda; Zacharia Muindi and Erica Hagen in Kenya; and > Ahsanhul Hoque in Bangladesh.* The amazing and hard working cadre of > Virtual USAID GeoCenter Interns deserves much praise as well. > > Most importantly, to the student leaders, chapter presidents, officers, > members, and faculty advisors of the YouthMappers network, on this > anniversary, we are inspired by your overwhelming response and continuous > generosity of your time and talents. We are listening to your words and > deeds. We take heart in the face of food insecurities, malaria outbreaks, > water conflicts, urban inequities, household shocks, droughts, volcanic > eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, and the many other difficult issues we > are tackling together. > > Many challenges and opportunities lie ahead in our second year. We aim to > continue to ensure that new mappers receive quality education, training, > and mapping experiences that add value to their career trajectories. We > will continue to study our impact and adjust to the needs of the student > body and the communities served. We will honor and support young leaders > <http://www.youthmappers.org/apply-leadership-fellows-initiative> with a > May workshop in Nepal, with thanks in advance to our host Nama Budhathoki > of Kathmandu Living Labs. We will launch new campaigns to exalt female > students and undertake gender related development programming with our Let > Girls Map efforts. We will implement new research fellowships and > additional rounds of local capacity building, and promote virtual and > personal exchanges to consolidate our widely distributed network and > empower the youth community. We welcome your ideas and participation as we > continue our next year of this movement! > > Happy anniversary YouthMappers and a merry GeoWeek to all! > > Yours truly, > > Patricia > > > *Patricia Solís, Ph.D.* > Co-Director, Center for Geospatial Technology > Research Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Geosciences > Adjunct Associate Professor, Climate Science Center > > Director, YouthMappers > > www.youthmappers.org > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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