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DESCRIPTION:MAps for Planning\, Monitoring and Evaluation (MAPME) is an ini
 tiative founded by Geo-geeks and FOSS enthusiasts from KfW Development Ban
 k (KfW)\, French Development Agency (AFD) and MapTailor Geospatial Consult
 ants.\nAid agencies such as KfW and AFD financially assist developing coun
 tries in fighting hunger\, poverty\, disease\, illiteracy and environmenta
 l degradation around the world. Together with our partner countries we are
  key decision makers in the allocation of the so-called Official Developme
 nt Assistance (ODA). KfW\, for example\, allocated 12.4 bn. EUR to assist 
 developing countries achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in
  2020.\nGeodata and geospatial technologies help us to take informed decis
 ions to allocate funds responsibly and maximize public goods and benefits.
  Nevertheless\, the uptake of open data and geospatial technologies within
  our institutions and decision-making processes is still relatively low. W
 e think that one of the main reasons for this is missing openness in the w
 ay that we deal with data-analytic questions in our institutions. \nIn res
 ponse we founded MAPME\, an open community and open-source initiative to u
 pscale and democratize the usage of geodata and geo-spatial technologies w
 ithin our own institutions as well as our partners. With this initiative w
 e promote cultural change in our institutions by prototyping small FOSS an
 d open-data pilot projects that illustrate the power and usefulness of the
 se technologies to improve development aid projects. One of our outputs is
  the mapme.biodiversity package\, which offers R-users the possibility to 
 automatically download and process several important open-data sources for
  conservation science using a parallelization approach to deal with large 
 AOIs or global conservation portfolios (https://github.com/mapme-initiativ
 e/mapme.biodiversity). \nWe will offer a talk where we share our approach 
 to FOSS application and development\, what we see as barriers in our insti
 tutional and IT contexts and first successes stories that leveraged the po
 wer of geospatial data for learning about our projects and taking more inf
 ormed decisions.
DTSTAMP:20260403T233313Z
LOCATION:Room 9
SUMMARY:The MAPME Initiative: Leveraging the power of open data and FOSS GI
 S to improve public expenditure in the development aid sector. - Johannes 
 Schielein\, Darius Andreas Görgen
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-2022/talk/38XHEC/
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