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Data Management and Publication Training for Government Agencies and Ministries

The government of Ghana through the National Information Technology agency has contracted SBC4D and Mobile Web Ghana to revamp the already existing Ghana Open Data portal. Activities leading to the revamping of the Ghana Open Data Portal are still ongoing to ensure that the platform becomes more effective and useful to open data enthusiasts in this country. One of the ways to ensure that the open data portal is useful is to make sure there Read more...

By Eli Sabblah, ago
US Embassy's Gender-based Violence Workshop at Mobile Web Ghana
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US Embassy’s Gender-based Violence Workshop at Mobile Web Ghana

As part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence worldwide, the U.S Embassy in partnership with Mobile Web Ghana organized a workshop to enlighten stakeholders on gender-based violence. The focus of the workshop was to address the different forms of violent acts against women and girls, hence the theme: “Understanding the Rights of Women and Girls”.  In attendance, were over fifty (50) participants who were representatives of Civil Society Organizations, Diplomatic missions, law Read more...

By Eli Sabblah, ago
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My Experience Participating In the Open Cities Accra Project (Mapper)

My name is Chris Eshun, a third-year Geomatic Engineering student at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana. I am the Training Coordinator for UMaT YouthMappers Chapter, a member of OpenStreetMap Ghana and the current President of the Geomatic Engineering Students Association. The Open Cities Africa (Accra) project is a project that seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters, especially flooding. The project also involves the remote mapping of Nima, Akweteyman, and Alajo which are Read more...

By Eli Sabblah, ago
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Ghana Code Club trains girls in Mobile App Development

Ghana Code Club set out to train 100 girls in mobile app development in a 2-day training program as part of the e-skills for girls program. The training was done in collaboration with Mobile Web Ghana, Leti Arts, ColorCoded and The Exploratory.   The first session of the training came off on Friday when fifty girls were introduced to android app development. On the first day of the training, the girls were taught how to Read more...

By Eli Sabblah, ago
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Open Cities Africa Second Regional Meeting and FOSS4G Conference

After the Training and Kick-Off Event for the Open Cities Africa cohorts in Kampala, Uganda, all the city teams have started working on their individual projects. The aim of the entire project is to make 11 cities in sub-Saharan Africa resilient to natural disasters especially flooding. In Kampala, the teams were taken through a 5-day training program in using ID Editor, JOSM and different mobile phone applications to contribute to the OpenStreetMap platform and collect Read more...

By Eli Sabblah, ago
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Open Cities Accra project- Training Sessions

The Open Cities Accra project is a World Bank sponsored project that seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters like flooding, through the creation and curation of geospatial data, community engagement and engaging government agencies and other organizations. The project is being implemented in Ghana by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), Mobile Web Ghana, and OSM Ghana. As part of the project, we have engaged members of staff of some government Read more...

By Eli Sabblah, ago