Wikipedia by far is the most used online Encyclopedia by all. I have been contributing volunteer time to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects; my favourite is WikiData for sometime now. Long story short, we all use and copy Wikipedia but the sad thing is just a handful of us give back; am refering to adding content. If you already don’t know Wikipedia is made by people like you and I who use it everyday....
State of the Map Africa 2019 is taking place in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast from 22nd to 24th November 2019. Call for logos is now OPEN. This is an opportunity for 1000s to appreciate your hand works as a designer :) Things to note: Format: PNG, SVG, PDF Deadline: Before 23:59 GMT on January 31, 2019. The design should communicate The Theme: “Transforming lives through mapping” The Africa Experience Fun Cool Openness A sense of community The potential of OpenStreetMap A sense of learning and education Intelligence Trustworthiness Global movement The design should not communicate Corporate / big business (as the sole element) Complexity Expensive For geeks only Closed community More information about the contest can be found on this OSM Wikipage...
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Laozi 2018 has been a great, open and year of communities of practise for me. As I sit here in my grandmothers house in Aflao where I was born. I have been away for long, as my mum always do on every New Year’s Eve we go to church at St. Benedictus RC Church, Viepe. Guess what happened when I called her that am home; she said hurry and come to church....
re:publica the German conference for the internet society was in Accra, Ghana and Africa for the first time this December 2018. I had 2 sessions at re:publica 2018 Open Maps, Open Data: Power of Accessible Geo Data Create, Contribute and Edit: Introduction to Wikidata I spent most my time as a long time member of the Wikimedia Ghana User Group volunteering at our booth engaging and talking to visitors about our movement and what we do....
In November 2018, I was privileged to have parcipated in the second DigitalTransport4Africa meet-up and workshop organized by the Agence française de développement (AFD) and it’s partners. Day 0: Nathalie and I finding our way to the nearest KFC My participation in this meetup dates back to mapping of Accra’s trotro with support from the local OpenStreetMap community, Jungle Bus and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly. This meetup also saw the launch of the Beta version of the DigitalTransport4Africa Resource Center: which contains data, information and tools used to accomplish paratransit mapping projects in Africa and around the world....