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Making use cases for crowd sourced financial services data in Uganda

Posted by Douglas on Dec, 20 2016

How can individuals, businesses and government adapt the process, and reliability of crowdsourced financial services data collection, for planning, decision making and financial inclusion. “Where are financial services located?”

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OpenStreetMap Workshop at The Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Conference (University of the South Pacific)

Posted by Mhairi O'Hara on Dec, 16 2016
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) community in the Pacific Islands is small but growing. This year, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) held an OSM workshop as a part of the 2016 Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing User Conference. Coordinated by the Pacific Community (SPC), the conference, which ran for 5 days, consisting of 4 days of presentations and discussions, and day of workshops, was hosted at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji.
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HOT Indonesia Launches a Tasking Manager and Pidie Mapathon in Response to Aceh Earthquake.

Posted by Biondi Sima on Dec, 13 2016
At 5.00 am Wednesday (7/12/16), a magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook Pidie Jaya District, Aceh Province. The epicentre is located at 5.25 N and 96.24 E on the ground, 106 km Southeast of Banda Aceh at a depth of 15 km. This earthquake was caused by the active faults Samalanga-Sipopok spreading from Southwest to Northeast.
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