by Aisha Hamis The Open Skies Fellowship is delivering a series of emerging tech workshops to youth in different regions, offering hands-on experience and capacity-building programs that introduce young people particularly females, to the latest trending technologies. OpenMap Development Tanzania through the Open Skies Fellowship holds technology workshops across the country to inspire youth in technology, provide practical skills, and expose youth to different technologies. The fellowship’s main goal is to develop the next generation of African experts on frontier technologies, with a focus…

By Hawa Adinani In August 2022, OpenMap Development Tanzania, through the Open Skies Fellowship program (OSF), organized an emerging technology workshop in Kinshasa- Central Africa’s largest and fastest-growing urban system with a population of 23 million people. We organized a one-week workshop with 22 youth in Kinshasa (all women) who…

By Aisha Hamisi Efforts to achieve sustainable urban development in Dar es Salaam by identifying opportunities for public landscaping and urban forestry projects that can create benefits in urban environments Dar es Salaam is Tanzania’s largest city and one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities in Africa, with a population of over 6 million people. Dar es Salaam has an estimated 70% of its urban population living in unplanned settlements. From 2002 to 2012, the average annual population growth…

By Aisha Hamisi Through the Resilience Academy Program, 140 University Students in Tanzania are being Trained to Collect Geospatial Data to Support Strategic Urban Planning in Five Municipalities over the next Six Weeks! OpenMap Development Tanzania has been partnering with the Tanzania Resilience Academy to design and implement the summer industrial training program with three universities: The University of Dar es Salaam, Ardhi University and the Sokoine University of Agriculture. The training aims to provide students with digital geospatial skills…

By Editha Mwanyika This year, Open Skies Fellows took part in Innovation Week Tanzania 2022, which was held in 16 regions from the 20th to the 23rd of May. …

By Editha Mwanyika. Early this year, OpenMap Development Tanzania began to expand to Rwanda through the Open Skies Fellowship, collaborating with its local partner IDA Technology to implement the program in Rwanda following a successful pilot in Tanzania with 12 recruited fellows. The fellowship aims to develop young local experts…

By Hawa Adinani The growth of OSM communities in Tanzania is taking shape as most organizations, institutions, and communities in general, are recognizing the importance of using and contributing to OSM data. …

By Hawa Adinani The use of satellite images in crop monitoring is developing rapidly in larger-scale farming along with the use of remote sensing data i.e vegetation index analysis. However, there is an increasing need for ground truthing data to make sure the monitoring of crops is precise. In collaboration…

By Hawa Adinani In May 2021, Open Skies Fellows announced the selection of the first cohort of four youth focusing on diverse technology ranging from drones, virtual reality, flood modeling and automatic wheelchairs. Fellows were given mentorship and technology loans to support their project’s needs throughout the implementation. Intentionally, the…