Just a quick shout to the mailing list about Portmarnock Community School who are Sage Global Entrepreneurship World Champions 2017.
The champions are decided after a World Cup competition. This involved 32 teams explaining their projects, and making competitive pitches. The whole thing was based on OpenStreetMap of course re-using the #MapLesotho data they had eagerly helped to create. They are just back in Ireland with an impressive looking trophy, and a small bit of prize money which they are donating to a school in Lesotho. Their project is called Global Citizens Mapping the Future and it is very creative in that it look for all kinds of new use cases for the data created. You can follow their handle on twitter or see a write up on MapLesotho - dot - com (sorry for the lack of hyperlink). Obviously a huge shout to those of you (you know who you are) who put the time in to validating the Lesotho HOTOSM tasks and generously giving specific feedback to them when they started in 2014-5. Watch out world, a bunch of kids have a huge database, and no end of creativity!
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