Participatory & Open GIS for Action-Oriented International Development
summary
Network of 371 university chapters across 70 countries contributes over 19 million OpenStreetMap edits and trains students in participatory GIS and open, low-cost tools. Projects build community maps, bicycle transects with photo-tagging in Malawi and farmer field surveys to produce ground-truth for USDA FAS crop classification models in Tanzania, using OSM basemaps, pen-and-paper mapping and a mobile projector. Outcomes include locally validated asset maps and ML training data, though limited interview time and permissions reduce survey coverage.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speakers
- 1:01USAID background and mission
- 3:08Youth Mappers program overview
- 5:36Participatory GIS framework
- 7:01Malawi bicycle relief project
- 9:31USDA FAS crop mapping project
- 12:40Conclusions and next steps
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