Presentation by Janet Chapman (Tanzania Development Trust) and Egle Marija Ramanauskaite (Human Computation Institute) at HOT Summit 2016, Brussels.
Fighting female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania; real impact at Mugumu Safe House; progress made in Crowd2Map.
Crowd2Map - using local & satellite mapping to FGM in Tanzania
1. USING LOCAL & SATELLITE MAPPING TO FIGHT FGM–
CROWD2MAP TANZANIA
2016-09-22, HOT Summit
Egle Marija Ramanauskaite
Janet Chapman
2. LUCKY MEETUP AT
MOZILLA
FESTIVAL 2015
“TEST” PROJECT TO
ENGAGE LOCALS IN
CROWDSOURCING /
CITIZEN SCIENCE
DATA COULD BE USED TO
MAKE A MAP!!!
HOW DID CROWD2MAP TANZANIA COME TO BE?
3. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?
• Tanzania Development Trust funds grassroots
organisations in the poorest areas of rural Tanzania
where there are no other international NGOs
working.
• Typical projects include bore holes for villages
without water, solar for clinics so women don’t have
to give birth in the dark, desks so school children
don’t have to sit on the floor.
• These remote villages are EXTREMELY poorly mapped.
• Local officials lack maps of their area.
4. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?
URBAN TANZANIA LOOKS LIKE THIS: (DAR ES SALAAM)
5. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?
• Egle was shocked to see rural Tanzania is blank in Google Maps.
• Received important input from a GIS colleague: “It’s not blank in OSM!”
• But actually…
MOST RURAL TANZANIA LOOKED LIKE
THIS WHEN WE STARTED
6. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?
THANKS TO MISSING MAPS, SOME OF IT LOOKED LIKE THIS (ZEZE, -4.8987578, 30.0577604)
18. REMOTE VILLAGES ARE STILL MISSING FROM MAPS …
• Where are they ?
• How are they called ?
• How many people live there ?
• Are they accessible by roads?
Are there bridges?
30. WINS
• Reaching more girls in Mara via
Mugumu Safe House
Discovery of remote villages
Reaching remote villages (limited
roads, bridges)
Fuel planning
Better maps help girls reach the
Safe House on their own
“We’re reaching places that we’ve never reached before”
33. Promote Swahili version of Maps.Me
Get more phones and funding for training/promotion
Project to map clinics and villages in Maswa requested by District Medical
Officer
Validators ?
Mapillary
Will continue Mapping Competitions for locals & mapathons
Bimonthly Crowd2Map mapathons to be organized in Vilnius, Technarium
from this autumn
Getting funding for training local “mapping experts”
NEXT STEPS
I’m Janet, Egle unfortunately can’t be here. Volunteer with TDT and visit Tz twice a year. This is our Safe House in Mugumu, has protected over 400 girls from nearby villages since it opened less than 2 years ago.
She was working on citizenscience projects. I complained about lack of maps in rural Tanzania and how communities there are affected by Deforestation, climate change, Suggested working together and Crowd2map was born.
Sometime hand drawn map on wall, often not. Getting lost driving through rivers in the rain. Asked local reps to draw map of where village was, they couldn’t
Thanks to great work of Ramani Huria who have supported us.
When told Egle she didn’t believe me how bad the maps were.
Most still looks like this – need stats for points added..
Zeze village – 8000 subsistence farmers, 42 km off grid, huge problems of water
first time I went completely blank, Nov 15 looks like above due to Missing maps project to map area around Burundi refugee camp added roads in Kigoma, but no village names or other amenities. So useless for finding a particular village but a great start..
Adding points on Epicollect, interest from fellow travellers on daladala etc
People incentivized to add points by competition.
People had never seen a map of their village but great interest in maps, demo OSM
EMR: you might get questions about these things. Like – how did you train them? How many people? How many laptops? What editor? How did they do? Did you/they continue to do it ?
EMR: did you say anything about this ? I don’t recall
Biggest project, outreach in villages, no maps
EMR: prepare for Qs about open data. Where did you get it from? Was it government-collected? Are you sure it is usable? Did you consider importing it straight to OSM (not manual)? Is that all the data you got? How recent is it? Are you still accessing other open data from elshwere ?
EMR: how many volunteers? How did you engage them ?
EMR: Why did you start with Epicollect at all? (say it was for a pilot project, and it was an easily accessible platform for general data collection, suitable for less literate (easy to use app) users etc.)
Moved to maps.me
EMR: did you try other OSM apps ? Why not ?
Maps me brilliant now you can add points, but list not that suitable for rural Africa..
say more on Mapping competition how much are people contributing
EMR: how many people? How well are they engaging? Are the points accurate? Reliable ?
Via Facebook, Whats app
Set up a FB group
EMR: don’t forget to say it is useful for sharing screenshots of unidentified villages, which then can be identified by participants
And wa
EMR: is it effective for communicating with locals? Why? (I’m sure you can provide many benefits :D )
Set up project on HOT for area around Mugumu,
Dar
EMR: how did they come to be? How did these volunteers find you? Decide to map? Who trained them?
Safe house
EMR: who trained them? How did they do? Do they continue mapping after the event?
Continuing mapping after the event … Remarkable coverage compared to before 2016; Mara stands out in the map of Tanzania
Almost no buildings or roads mapped before we started working on the region. Peak during our mapathon, of course
EMR: you could get some wise-nerds explaining you how these new OSM analytics work, but just nod along I think :D it is irrelevant to the project. The stats are clear though.
Continuing mapping after the event … Remarkable coverage compared to before 2016; Mara stands out in the map of Tanzania
Remarkable coverage compared to before 2016; Mara stands out in the map of Tanzania
Continuing mapping after the event … Remarkable coverage compared to before 2016; Mara stands out in the map of Tanzania
EMR: do girls actually use handed out maps? Were there actual villages Rhobi’s team didn’t know about? Can you give more details of how they used the maps? (Just thinking what mean/detailed questions they might ask )
You said something about the validators, but its not on the slide …
Add/delete as you see fit! I only care that ExCiteS (Muki) be in here, since he helped us set up the project & mapathon, and Technarium, since they have been very supportive of the idea and want to host more mapathons …
We should say “thank you to all volunteers who have made this happen” …