2023-11-30 –, Auditorium
Language: English
This year, 2023, as Unique Mappers Network-the Community NGO for OpenStreetMap Nigeria, hits her 6th year anniversary, a reminiscence of milestones, achievements and challenges is noteworthy. The emergence, evolution and sustainability of a community-driven and democratized geospatial data infrastructure such as OpenStreetMap is critical to local development support in Africa and Nigeria in particular. This talk shares the progress, opportunities, lessons and challenges of growing and sustaining an open mapping community as a local community of OpenStreetMap in Nigeria in the last six years. Conclusively, it advocates for a community-centric opportunities and beneficiary of Open mapping support dividends to local development in Africa.
Victor N. Sunday is a Lecturer-(Geospatial Information Science) at Geography & Environmental Management , University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The National Coordinator & Founder of Unique Mappers Network (UMT) OSM Community NGO in Nigeria.. A Local Community leader for OpenStreetMap, GeoForAll & Participatory Citizen Science, in Nigeria. Chair of River State Chapter of Geoinformation Society of Nigeria. He is Member of Member-ISPRS WG IV/4, OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF), Voting Member-Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)USA,and a HOT project Tasking Manager for Nigeria. He is also member of professional Societies Such as Nigerian Environmental Society, the Geoinformation Society of Nigeria and a Registered Environmental Manager (REM)USA. He is a GIS national expert Consultant to EU project in Nigeria.