Geoevangelisation workshop in the use of JOSM and GeOsm, the first 100% African open source geolocation platform - Relatório do Evento
- Dia
- Friday 12 March 2021
- Horário
- 11:00 (WAT)
- Local
- Yaounde, Cameroon (Europe, Middle East & Africa)
- Organizadores
- GeOsm
No sábado, 6 de Março de 2021, o décimo primeiro Dia dos Dados Abertos foi realizado por pessoas de todo o mundo através da organização de centenas de eventos para celebrar, promover e disseminar o uso de dados abertos. Graças aos generosos suportes, a Open Knowledge Foundation foi capaz de apoiar a realização de mais de 60 destes eventos através nosso esquema de minibolsas.
Este evento recebeu uma minibolsa da Open Knowledge Foundation graças ao suporte de Microsoft.
Como seu evento celebrou os Dados Abertos?
The aim of our event was the promotion of open data in the creation of services. GeOsm is an open source geospatial data portal, 100% African, scalable on all administrative units and based on - but not only on - the OpenStreetMap free database.
We celebrated the day by gathering several actors of the digital ecosystem, namely a representative of the OSM Foundation, students, professionals from the ministries of urban planning and housing and local development, researchers and the GeOsm team. There were a total of 20 participants.
The event took place on March 12 2021 in the premises of GeOsm, beginning at 11am and ending at 2pm. The exchanges were focused on the development of an open source solution from open data.
GeOsm is the solution presented which today is deployed in 21 countries and at the communal level in eight cities of North Cameroon and six of south-west Cameroon under the title Geocommunal.
We presented:
- The reasons why we decided to use free data and to make our platform an open source namely the fact of being able to allow each contributor to use and modify its core and in return make valuable improvements.
- We also discussed its various functionalities and the potential instances to be set up to meet the needs listed by local collectivities to improve the management of their resources, such as geofiscal for fiscality and geotourism for tourism.
It was also the occasion to cement the partnership between the OSM Foundation and GeOsm through the signing of a trademark license agreement.
A brainstorming session was also held among the participants, who were able to give their perception of the use of data. They then congratulated the project and the signing of the agreement, which will further facilitate access to information and decision-making.
#opendataday2021
— GeOsm (@GeOsm_Family) March 18, 2021
'The promotion of Opendata to the creation of services'
🇨🇲 We're very proud to announce the signing of a Trademark licence agreement between the OpenStreetMap Foundation and the GeOsm Family pic.twitter.com/9uUH0KZObQ
Lições aprendidas no evento:
Open data gives the possibility to bring everyone to the building. Tt allows the symbiosis and the sharing of the individual efforts that have become common. It allows to reach the objectives more quickly and to solve the problems in an effective and efficient way. Each contributor has then the possibility to take advantage of the data created by the community of contributors and to use it to develop innovative and useful solutions for the local development of his country. This is the case of the GeOsm team, which has offered the possibility to the users of the platform to benefit from a direct access to the free data and a way to solve the problems they encounter.
Porque você ama o Dia dos Dados Abertos?
Because it is an opportunity to celebrate open data, to exchange on the value of free data, on the interest to produce it, to create a symbiosis between the efforts and the added value linked to the availability of data.
