Bob, Thanks very much for making this happen and for keeping the HOT community informed of your results to date. The link to Missing Maps partners is a good one. If we can assist with this and/or making connections please let me know.
Best Tyler *Tyler Radford* Interim Executive Director email: [email protected] U.S. mobile: +1 617.285.2009 *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team * *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Bob Kerr < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This year State of the map Scotland is having an International Development > Fair, where we are introducing ourselves to various groups and Charities > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2015/Day_1 > > After working on this for several months I just thought I'd let HOT know > what I have found out. Out of the 70 or so groups that I have contacted > none have heard of Openstreetmap before but they are interested. > > We are now recognised by NIDOS > > http://www.nidos.org.uk/ > > which is the scottish version of DFID > > > https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development > > The International Development umbrella organisations are interested in the > Sustainable Development Goals > > https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/sustainabledevelopmentgoals > > which so happens to match well with openstreetmap > > The ID fair that we are creating is working well to bring together all > sizes of groups and act as an introduction to us to get name recognition > and understand the concept of OSM which hopefully will lead to > participation. The potential for openstreetmap is excellent but we need to > reach out to them rather than wait for them to find us because it is just > not something that they are thinking about. If you are having a local > Missing maps session please keep inviting them. > > Although at it's early stages, I am hoping to arrange some to the major > charities to connect with Missing Maps in a loose and mutually beneficial > collaboration. The larger charities need to have the consistancy of > structure that local volunteers are not able to provide and it is easier > for them to identify with the British Red Cross and Medicin San Frontier. > > > > Cheers > > Bob > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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