Presentation about Crowd2Map, a volunteer open mapping project in rural Tanzania, as part of a panel discussion about social entrepeneurship.

1. Crowd2Map
An open, crowdsourced volunteer mapping
project

2. Tanzania Development Trust is a volunteer run charity that has worked with grassroots
organisations in rural Tanzania for over 45 years

4. This is rural Tanzania:
(Over 10,000 people live
in this area, not shown on
any map)
This is Dar es Salaam:

6. Entrepeneurs
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

7. We are making them!

9. https://mapwith.ai/ suggests roads and buildings to be added by
mapper, speeding up mapping process

11. Slack channel is good for
generating a community, and
for volunteers to ask
questions and get instant
feedback on their 1st
mapping attempts etc. – if
anyone would like to join
please let me know!

12. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
We train field mappers
in rural Tanzania to add
their local knowledge to
the map using
Maps.Me, a free
smartphone app that
works offline –
particularly useful as
connectivity can be a
huge issue.

14. And trained people to
use the maps.
And also add missing
places to the map.

15. New smartphone users
see a map of their village
for the first time.
We set up networks of
digital champions to teach
others in their
communities on how to
use smartphones.

17. Please join us and help map rural Tanzania!
Janet Chapman
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org
@Crowd2Map