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<p>Dear HOT-community,</p>
<p>It is important to show the <b>outcomes</b> HOT has leveraged.
This helps us for the inspiration of people and organizations
about the possibilities of Open Data for humanitarian activities
and also for our fund-raising efforts.<br>
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<p>We usually communicate results as news on the website, such as
statistics of activations (how many mappers participated, how much
data was collected, what extend was mapped, how many people
effected, ...) and this is good!</p>
<p>But we also want to show <b>tangible outcomes</b>, to answer the
questions, what this data has been used for. Especially our
partners, or communities that used the collected open data to
produce impacts and products based on the data. Therefore I've
created a showcases section on the website:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hotosm.org/showcases">https://hotosm.org/showcases</a></p>
<p>Unfortunately there aren't a lot of good examples, yet, and I'd
like to invite everybody who has a story to share to contribute to
this effort. Once we have good content there I'll link the
showcases to be visible on the website's general pages.</p>
<p>If you have an account on the website (which you should have as a
HOT member) you can add a new showcase by visiting this link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hotosm.org/node/add/showcase">https://hotosm.org/node/add/showcase</a><br>
In case you don't have the permissions to do so, or you don't have
an account but want to contribute with a showcase, please write me
in private.<br>
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Please try to make it short, visual (pictures!) and convincing.</p>
<p>Thank you!<br>
Best,<br>
Felix<br>
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