Youth Mappers Fellowship Workshop, 2019

Leadership Workshop 2019
 Youth Mappers is an international university consortium for building
a mapping resilience eco-system around the globe.
 The emphasis is given on student driven development of geographic
data and bring in solutions to the development challenges
worldwide.
 Youth-led initiative on university is provided with the opportunity
to work on mapping challenges and develop new ideas.
 Currently YouthMappers has 147 chapters around the globe with a
contribution of over 17 million map edits.

 YouthMappers Dhaka College started its journey on August, 2016.
 Around 8 members hold the position within 50 in the missing
maps global leaderboard.
 The chapter was awarded Chapter Partnership Award in 2017.
 The chapter got 3rd position in YouthMappers “Mapping to End
Malaria Challenge: Round-03”
 The chapter is continuously contributing to OSM platform and
different tasks in HOT and TeachOSM.

Challenges of YouthMapper Platform (In Bangladesh):
 There is a lack in collaborative efforts among the chapters.
 Members are not provided with the opportunity to sustain in the long run as
they just get involved in projects where there is a necessity.
 Members in Chapters are mostly involved in individual development, not as a
whole.
 They don’t feel motivated to take initiatives on research or innovative solution
development by themselves.

How DC YouthMappers stands apart?
 We focus more on team efforts rather than individual milestones.
 Initiatives taken by chapter itself with different mapping projects and events.
 While given opportunity from community driven platforms like BHOOTs,
OSMBDF, been proactive in collaborations.

Some snippets of chapter activity:

Now I would like share my
experience on my initiative towards
building a data driven solution
mechanism based on
OpenStreetMap, to build up a
resilient city.

Clean City, Smart City
Identifying the Opportunities to Make
Local Urban Waste Management More
Sustainable and Resilient Using
OpenStreetMap Data.

Background of the
Concept:
 Waste is unavoidable by-products of human activity that encompasses
all our activity.
 In proportionate to the increase in population, the amount in waste
generation increases.
 Dhaka which is one of the megacities in the world facing challenges in
terms of population boom and problems raising out of it.
 In a study by World Bank, it has been projected that the population of
Dhaka city shall rise to 25 million (Approx.) within 2025.
 In 2014, WHO termed Dhaka as one of the most polluted cities where
solid waste is largely liable for it.
 A study showed that around 4500 tons of solid waste is generated at
household level in Dhaka city alone.
 For ensuring a livable environment for the next generation, waste
management should be given higher priority and also for building up
sustainable city.

My Approach:
 Awareness building for the people is crucial for ensuring proper waste management as root level solution mechanism will result in a
higher outcome.
 Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation have deployed thousands of waste bins and disposal points around
Dhaka city but people face problems during disposing their waste as they don’t know the location of the bins.
 Moreover, disposing waste in the bins and points shall develop a cultural practice among people to dispose waste properly that in the
long run keep the environment clean and healthy.
 In fulfilling the purpose, I am working to collect all the waste bin and disposal locations in Dhaka city based on OSM that will be used in
an android app for serving location information of waste bins for the people with the generous support from Bangladesh Humanitarian
Open Street Map Operational Team (BHOOT), an operational wing of OSM Bangladesh Foundation.
 On the other hand, it will help in finding out the distribution ratio of waste disposal points in comparison to the population density. To
find out whether disposal points have been appropriately distributed and get an overview of imbalanced distributions.

Solution Structure:
 Customization of Open Data Collection tool for collecting location of waste bins and
disposal points.
 Building up collaboration with BHOOT team.
 Capacity building and training
 Field data collection
 Rectification of collected data from the field.
 Map development from the collected data
 Development of Android Application
 Awareness building and campaigning

Challenges :
o Finding out all the bins around the city.
o Managing resources to collect and maintain data.
o GPS accuracy specially for congested areas.
o Acquiring permission from the concerned authority.
o Ensuring the data quality.
o Application development
o Building up the culture among people of using the waste bins for disposing waste.

Outcome as far :
 Collected around 700 waste bin location around Dhaka city.
 Collecting geo-tagged photos for delivering a better understanding of the place.
 Development of android app is on the process.

An overview of the work:
Sample data collected from a specific zone.
(Waste Disposal Points)
Location based suitability analysis of waste points in terms of
household density

Future Plan:
 Scale up the data collection for all the major cities in Bangladesh.
 Raise up social awareness among people regarding waste management.
 Finding scopes to mitigate waste burden.

Dhaka College
Who I am ?
Ataur Rahman Shaheen
Studying on Statistics at Dhaka College.
Lives at Old Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Love to Make Map, Cycling, Traveling and
Hunting the Food taste .

any query
?

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