Organization: Crowd2Map

Two billion people in rural communities throughout the world are not on proper maps, including 17 million in Tanzania.  This has many negative impacts for navigation, planning, and for activists protecting the up to 3 million girls at risk of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM.

In the last 5 years Crowd2Map, an entire volunteer project has recruited and trained over 16,000 online remote mappers who have added over 5 million buildings into OpenStreetMap. Better maps have helped save over 3000 girls from FGM.

Project Information 

Crowd2Map recognizes that everyone should be counted. Without accessible, good quality maps of rural Tanzania's progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals cannot be planned and measured at a village level. Therefore we are training local communities to add their local knowledge to base maps created from satellite images to open maps that everyone can access, use and develop. 

Visualizing how far we have come and how much is still to do is a priority to motivate our many volunteers and to track progress to aid planning. 

Call-to-Action  

Help communicate the impact that Crowd2Map has had to date by creating engaging data visualizations to visually communicate the achievements on the Crowd2Map website. 

Audience 

Potential partners, our volunteer mappers, the wider mapping community, the general public, and through feedback sessions hosted by local monitoring staff, communities

Use of Data Visualization

Website, social media, reports, other communications

Data

Deadline

Submissions due: May 20th, 2021
Live virtual event: May 28th, 2021 12:00 noon BST (London, United Kingdom)

How to participate

• Sign up as a volunteer, if you haven’t already.

• Join Viz for Social Good Slack and project channel #02_project-discussion

• Submit your visualization to  Viz for Social Good – Crowd2map

• Use social media tags @Crowd2Map, @VizFSG, #vizforsocialgood

• Attend a live virtual event on 28 May 2021, 12:00 noon BST (London, United Kingdom), where you may get the opportunity to pitch your visualizations to the Crowd2Map team.