Welcome to the OSMEthiopia
Building Maps, Promoting Community Mapping and ICT Ethiopia
Group for OSM community in Ethiopia - for sharing ideas and doing collaborative work in the region. We also represent all mappers, geospatial technology users, open data, and open source software project contributors in 🇪🇹
Services
What and How we works
The major core things that OSMEthiopia will focused and work on.
Social based
Working to create a culture of voluntarism in the communityMaking mind changing programs and platforms.
Shared Resource
Place is a shared resource, and when you give all that power to a single entity, you are giving them the power not only to tell you about your location, but to shape it.
Map Content
Making the hub of youth opportunities & creating jobs Creating Landmarks Transforming Cities.
Our Values
Integrity, Transparency and Accountability: other to ensure cost effective implementation of planned activities Excellence: High level of quality delivery.Flexibility, Equal opportunities.
Our Misson
The mission of OpenStreetMap Ethiopia is to have a vibrant OpenStreetMap community in Ethiopia: united, organised and growing to assist, and get involved in National and global development goals.
Our Vision
To have a greater capacity for open data, open source, and applying these principles to assist organizations, individuals locally and internationally to manage and solve social, economic and community challenges
Activities
Key activities of the OSMEthiopia
We facilitates all possibilities in the GIS to implement projects by technological advancement
OpenStreetMap Internship
OpenStreetMap Ethiopia aspires to provide diverse internship programs to open up the community greater and furnish direction for the foremost steps into the world of Open mapping, open source, and open data. Additionally, soft skills transferred through workshops which include career guidance, networking, and sharing experiences. Finally, some outstanding interns are selected for our projects.
Culture
Heritage
Supporting Noble Farms Ethiopia Ltd in Addis Ababa
OpenStreetMap Ethiopia in collaboration with OpenGIS Ethiopia is working with Noble Farms Ethiopia Limited, private agricultural training and inputs provider to introduce open mapping GIS tools and technology to improve efficiency in their work.Noble Farms Ethiopia Limited provides farmers with inputs that include seeds, agricultural machinery like tractors, and training on post-harvesting.
Art
Ethiopian
Public Transport in Addis Ababa
Ethiopian Open Source OpenStreetMap-based routes data consuming trip planner application customized by AddisMap Transit allowing enabled the usage of multi-modal transport services under one platform. Hence, it helps public transport users become better informed and save time through the identification of routes, stops, and time schedules.
Culture
Heritage
Fighting Gender Based Violence
OpenStreetMap Ethiopia developed a secret reporting mechanism for survivors of gender-based violence using an automated phone call or text through any type of phone (smart or non-smart including landline) In collaboration with Ethiopian Telecommunication corporation, installed a mechanism in which a woman with GBV from all over Ethiopia can call or text a specific three to four-digit emergency number.
Art
Ethiopian
Flood Mapping Using Drone Technology
OpenStreetMap Ethiopia with support from the Ethiopia Red Cross Society from the 25th to the 28th of the November 2021 set out to assess and determine the extent of the floods in Diredawa and Alaba Town Council in South East District using GIS, Drone Technology and Photogrammetry. The goal of the mission was to document the effects of the floods and the affected towns using Drone Technology and Interviews with the affected Communities.
Culture
Heritage
Ethiopia Open Mapping Program/Open Cities Addis Ababa
OpenStreetMap Ethiopia with support from the Ethiopia Red Cross Society from the 25th to the 28th of the November 2021 set out to assess and determine the extent of the floods in Diredawa and Alaba Town Council in South East District using GIS, Drone Technology and Photogrammetry. The goal of the mission was to document the effects of the floods and the affected towns using Drone Technology and Interviews with the affected Communities.
Art
Ethiopian
Clean Streets Addis Ababa
OpenStreetMap Ethiopia with support from the Ethiopia Red Cross Society from the 25th to the 28th of the November 2021 set out to assess and determine the extent of the floods in Diredawa and Alaba Town Council in South East District using GIS, Drone Technology and Photogrammetry. The goal of the mission was to document the effects of the floods and the affected towns using Drone Technology and Interviews with the affected Communities.
Culture
Heritage
State of The Map Ethiopia
State of the Map Ethiopia is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users from Ethiopia. Please consider signing up for updates via our newsletter, join our telegram group chat and follow us on Twitter.OSM Ethiopia is committed to providing participants with a safe conference environment following the latest safety and health guidelines set by authorities. State Of The Map Ethiopia 2023 will take place from 8th - 10th November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Check out the blog for the first ever OpenStreetMap conference after Ethopia.
Art
Ethiopian
Ethiopian FOSS for Community
FOSS4E is the acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Ethiopia. It is the annual recurring National event hosted by OSM Ethiopia, to support and promote the collaborative development of free and open-source technologies and open geospatial data. The conference covers all kinds of topics related to geospatial information and earth observation openness from Software development to Transition to FOSS4G, Use cases and applications, Education and research, and Open data.
Culture
Heritage
Ethiopia Crowdsourcing Refugee Camp Data
OpenStreetMap Ethiopia partnered with HOT to carry out this program which involved acquiring spatial data in and around refugee settlements to better understand the refugee crisis and also assist partners working in the refugee crisis with information Management and data collection tools with OSM at the core.
Art
Ethiopian
Features
Key features of the OSMEthiopia
Our technological advancement Take your project Performance to the next level. Empower your teams.
Testimonial
What our Supporter Say
It will be as simple as occidental in fact, it will be Occidental.
30 + Satisfied Feedback
" Firstly, focus on the most frequent ones. be grateful for any feedback you may receive in that regard. To fail to act on that is a mistake that may cost you too much too soon. "
Gemechis Roba
- OSMEthiopia User" In research conducted by QuestionPro, 36% of employees said that better visibility of organizational goals would amplify their satisfaction and job performance. "
Biruke Haile
- OSMEthiopia User" When employees have a sense of direction how they fit in the long-term broader company vision it does impact job satisfaction positively. "
Kidus Yared
- OSMEthiopia User" Why should you care how people would describe your product? Because it’s an important issue when your product gets described as ‘buggy’ instead of ‘life-saving.’ "
Yared Bekala
- OSMEthiopia User" If you don’t want to give your clients any suggestions, you can use the open-ended variation of this customer survey question and ask How would you describe our product "
G/kidan Kiros
- OSMEthiopia User" Firstly, focus on the most frequent ones. be grateful for any feedback you may receive in that regard. To fail to act on that is a mistake that may cost you too much too soon. "
Gemechis Roba
- OSMEthiopia User" In research conducted by QuestionPro, 36% of employees said that better visibility of organizational goals would amplify their satisfaction and job performance. "
Biruke Haile
- OSMEthiopia User" When employees have a sense of direction how they fit in the long-term broader company vision it does impact job satisfaction positively. "
Kidus Yared
- OSMEthiopia User" Why should you care how people would describe your product? Because it’s an important issue when your product gets described as ‘buggy’ instead of ‘life-saving.’ "
Yared Bekala
- OSMEthiopia User" If you don’t want to give your clients any suggestions, you can use the open-ended variation of this customer survey question and ask How would you describe our product "
G/kidan Kiros
- OSMEthiopia User" Firstly, focus on the most frequent ones. be grateful for any feedback you may receive in that regard. To fail to act on that is a mistake that may cost you too much too soon. "
Gemechis Roba
- OSMEthiopia User
We Stay True For our Heritage
OSMEthiopia will work on different social issues to solve problems and usher in solutions from untapped potential o young Ethiopians all over the country and abroad
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Trainings Held
2965
No. of Participants
700
Our Members
6
Projects Completed
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