OSM Africa is a network of local OpenStreetMap communities from all over Africa with an intention of joining hands to share resources and collaborate to grow and produce a complete and well detailed map of Africa on OpenStreetMap in order to advance the quality, completeness and sustainability of geospatial data in Africa. Join us as we map out Africa!. Meet other mappers using the mailing list , Slack team or OSM Africa Facebook Group or Follow on Twitter @osmafrica
Please update this list with your local group's information. If you know a group to be defunct, feel free to remove it from this list or, better still, revive it!
Groups with links in bold have OpenStreetMap as their primary focus, others have some OSM component.
This group is responsible for coordinating and organizing the State of the Map Africa conference.
Name
OSM Username
Country
Ly Racky
racky
Côte d'Ivoire
Geoffrey Kateregga
Kateregga1
Uganda
Adingra Yao Guy Pacome
GUY PACOME
Côte d'Ivoire
Christian Shadrack
christian shadrack
DRC
Claire Halleux
clairedelune
DRC
Kapay Yongololo
yongololo
DRC
Johanes Petro Machela
johanespeter9
Tanzania
Samaila ALIO
ilasolthah
Niger
Moustapha Moutari
moustaphamoutari
Niger
Mamane Moussa Malik
Mamane Moussa
Niger
Bassirou Inou Koulou
bassirouik
Niger
Willy Franck SOB
sobzeros
Cameroun
Nathalie SIDIBE
Nathalie SIDIBE
Mali
Victor N.Sunday
vicksun
Nigeria
Dennis Irorere
Smart D
Nigeria
Namitala Gertrude
TrudyHope
Zambia
Charles Chilufya
charles chilufya
Zambia
Tommy G D Charles
Charles
Sierra Leone
Activation WG
This group is responsible for coordinating activation following the HOT activation protocol in case of a disaster in any country in Africa. Members of this group will take the online HOT Activation course to become HOT Activators.
Name
OSM Username
Country
Ly Racky
racky
Côte d'Ivoire
Geoffrey Kateregga
Kateregga1
Uganda
Samaila ALIO
ilasolthah
Niger
Moustapha Moutari
moustaphamoutari
Niger
Mamane Moussa Malik
Mamane Moussa
Niger
Victor N.Sunday
vicksun
Nigeria
ATANGANA Jacques Landry
Atangana Jacques Landry
Cameroun
Victor N.Sunday
vicksun
Nigeria
Namitala Gertrude
TrudyHope
Zambia
Tommy G D Charles
Charles
Sierra Leone
Communications and Technical WG
This group is responsible with technical activities of the network and communications between the network and other partners. Communication tasks include managing social media, blog posts, and newsletter coordination of the networks. Technical tasks working on the website, applications and all the technologies that can be used by the network.
Name
OSM Username
Country
Christian Shadrack
christian shadrack
DRC
Kapay Yongololo
yongololo
DRC
Moustapha Moutari
moustaphamoutari
Niger
Mamane Moussa Malik
Mamane Moussa
Niger
Yusuf Suleiman
usefulness
Nigeria
Bernard Hakizimana
Bha
Rwanda
Namitala Gertrude
TrudyHope
Zambia
Tommy G D Charles
Charles
Sierra Leone
Local Chapters WG
This group is responsible with assisting new local chapters, recruiting local chapter organizations to become involved with OSM Africa, and assisting existing local chapters. Assistance to local chapters may include proposal writing, project implementation, fundraising, and supervision. Also helping local OSM Chapters become official OSMF Local Chapters.
Name
OSM Username
Country
Okoma Anebo Philippe
Anebo Philippe
Côte d'Ivoire
Adingra Yao Guy Pacome
GUY PACOME
Côte d'Ivoire
Christian Shadrack
christian shadrack
DRC
Claire Halleux
clairedelune
DRC
Johanes Petro Machela
johanespeter9
Tanzania
Samaila ALIO
ilasolthah
Niger
Moustapha Moutari
moustaphamoutari
Niger
Mamane Moussa Malik
Mamane Moussa
Niger
Victor N.Sunday
vicksun
Nigeria
Maloum Mamadou
maloummamadou
Niger
ATANGANA Jacques Landry
Atangana Jacques Landry
Cameroun
Willy Franck SOB
sobzeros
Cameroun
Victor N.Sunday
vicksun
Nigeria
Namitala Gertrude
TrudyHope
Zambia
Training WG
This group is responsible with providing trainings in OSM related tools and applications. This includes preparation of the training materials, documentation and prepare the tutorials of those trainings. Help local chapters set up Youth Mappers chapters in Universities in their countries.
The COVID-19 pandemic was declared by WHO on 11 March 2020, with global lock-down and travel bans, so the conference had to be changed to be venueless.
The State of the MapNigeria was held at FCT Abuja, Nigeria, 11t-14 October 2023.
The fourth State of the Map Africa was supposed to happen in Nairobi- Kenya but due Covid-19 it was changed to be online. It took place on 19-21 November 2021. https://2021.stateofthemap.africa/
@OSM_MG
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