janetchapman/contribute-Crowd2Map

Contribute to Crowd2Map Tanzania # Crowd2Map Tanzania **Mapping rural Tanzania to help end Female Genital Mutilation and empower communities to develop their neighbourhoods** ## Welcome! Thank you for visiting Crowd2Map repository :) If you are a someone who loves to help people and/or maps, data or tech, then you are at the right place! * Introduction * Why does this project exist? * What we plan to do about it? * How are we doing it? * Contribution * Participation Guidelines * License * Contact Us ## Introduction Crowd2Map is a project being mentored under the Mozilla Leadership Training Program, 2017 Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project aiming to put rural Tanzania on the map, particularly to help protect girls from FGM. Since we launched at Mozfest2015, we have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap, an open source map available to all, with the help of over 5000 volunteers worldwide and 600 on the ground in Tanzania. With minimal budget and no staff we have so far added over 2 million buildings and trained community mappers in 23 areas of Tanzania. We have also been featured on Al Jazeera, he Guardian and Missing Maps. We have also set up a Youthmappers Chapter at the Institute of Rural Development and Planning in Mwanza and Dodoma. ## Why does this project exist? - Rural Tanzania is unmapped, even villages of 10,000 people may not exist on any map. - FGM and other activists do not have maps of their areas which hampers their work protecting girls. - Local Officials do not have access to maps of their areas, hampering development - We are empowering local communities to develop the skills to make their communities visible and collect the data they need to develop their districts ## What we are doing about it? - For the last 2 and a half years we have recruited over 5500 online volunteers mapping from satellite images - anyone with an internet connection can help! - Training 26 community mapping groups across rural Tanzania and …