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Open Gender Data for Tanzania - What is missing? Why does it matter?

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An event for Open Data Day and Women's Day on the Open Data Landscape on Gender in Tanzania

About this event

Join us for short presentations on the Open Gender Data landscape in Tanzania, and its implications, followed by a discussion, a chance to ask questions This will be followed by a visualisation workshop and mapathon.

Speakers include:

Revi Stirling - Director, USAID W-GDP WomenConnect Challenge will talk about financial inclusion and the digital divide.

Naledi Hollbruegge, Data Scientist at UNDP. Naledi has a background in Psychology and started her career in social research before becoming a data analyst focusing on self-service analytics tools and data visualisation. She now works with nonprofit organisations to support them in making more data-driven decisions and gain insights through effective data visualisation.

Dr Annemarie Middelburg. consultant and FGM expert.

Heather Leson, Technologist, Digital Strategy and Partnerships, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresent, co-curator Data Playbook

Laura Mugeha, Geospatial engineer & YouthMappers Regional Ambassador

Christina Reuben, Environmental Scientist, OMDTZ

Raya Idrissa Ahmada. Assistant Lecturer at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) and a Youthmappers Regional Ambassador. She is also the Founder of Mshauri STEM Initiative with the aim of helping young girls have STEM careers.

Theresia Charles Numbi, a CEO of Lighthouse (EA) Legal Clinic (LEALC), Advocate of the High Court and Assistant Lecturer at Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College.

Everyone welcome!

Date and time

Sat, 6 March 2021

16:00 – 18:00 GMT

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Organiser Crowd2Map Tanzania

Organiser of Open Gender Data for Tanzania - What is missing? Why does it matter?

Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project aiming to put rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015, we have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap with the help of over 9500 volunteers worldwide and on the ground in Tanzania. We are concentrating first on the areas where girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). So far we have added almost 3 million buildings . We were awarded a microgrant by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap to train community mappers in 26 areas of Tanzania, and organised a mapathon at UNFPA as part of the UN General Assembly in September 2018. We have also been featured on Al Jazeera, The Guardian and Missing Maps.