Greetings All,

In the last MoMoDar for this year, we dive into the possibilities and debate of open data and linking information to mobile mapping tools!

The next event will be on 5th December,2011 at COSTECH.

Our exciting speakers for the evening are:
Mr Joseph Ngwegwe, Tanzania Program Manager of Twaweza.
Joseph will introduce us into Open Government Partnership, which Tanzania entered just last week, and he’ll highlight some ways how technology can enhance openness.

Mr Edwin Mugerezi, Managing Director of InfoBridge Consultants Ltd.
Edwin will present mobile solutions for mapping media content and points of interest with GPS positioning.

Mr Msilikale Msilanga and Mr Reginald Tesha, students at Ardhi University.
Reginald and Tesha will their experiences of a recent mapping project at Tandale, where their collected data of the unmapped community buildings and services together with the community members into OpenStreetMap (search for Tandale). They did the project together with World Bank and Twaweza and it’s planned to be expanded to larger regions in Dar and Tanzania. Read the World Bank blog story for background.

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.
See you there.

With Regards
Billy
On Behalf of MoMo Dar
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http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz