[HOT] Hewlett Foundation support to HOT

Fri Sep 26 13:36:57 UTC 2014

Thanks to all of those that support us with this activation, including the HOT Board and executive, the Imagery providers, OSM-fr which is always ready to support for Imagery servers and HDM style hosting, the OSM developpers either for Daily exports, specificic projects or simply by assuring robust system and tools.

One important aspect for Andrew and myself in such Activations is the coordination with the UN Agencies and International organizations such as MSF and Red Cross. This help us and the other Coordinators quite engaged in these activities to progress from one activation to the other and work more closely with the international organizations to respond quickly to the deployment of international teams deployed in disaster zones, to open doors and obtain more support from various sources including this fantastic grant. This is a work that has to be done with great humanitarian respect and independance, building confidence with the humanitarian organizations taking such risks working in very challenging contexts. They are the heros. We are there to support them.

For this Ebola activation, we have the great opportunity to work closely with CartONG and their GIS officers deployed in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.  This model of actions has been outlined by MSF as a new way to support their actions. We need to think at better ways to develop an OSM ecosystem with the humanitarians. 

As I generally say, the OSM community we are very successful working remotely from around the world to digitize the maps in context of disasters. But this is a black and white map. We need to color the map, to add thematic to it. We need OpenData input from the countries concerned and from the humanitarians in the field. 

Let's assure we progress in this direction. 
Pierre 

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 De : Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com>
À : Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org> 
Cc : "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
Envoyé le : Vendredi 26 septembre 2014 8h52
Objet : Re: [HOT] Hewlett Foundation support to HOT

Thanks so much everyone. 

Having activation documentation and support is core to sustainability. Pierre and Andrew, you are tireless and very dedicated. It is my hope that these funds will help you and contributors keep on doing great things. 

One thing I'd like to say is that the work outlined by the Training, Activation and Technical Working Groups as well as the others are very key to the success of this. 

Happy Friday,

Heather 

Heather Leson
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Twitter: HeatherLeson 
Blog: textontechs.com

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org> wrote:

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>Dear Mark and All,
>Nothing of this would have ever happenned without you: the thousands of contributors who are giving some (sometimes a lot) of their time to contribute to OpenStreetMap in places where maps are most needed. I'm adding a special thanks for our West Africa Ebola Activation coordinators for their amazing work, Pierre Béland and Andrew Buck. After 6 months, they are still there, giving more energy than ever to coordinate voluntarily and engage always more contributors and organizations to address the geographic data gaps expressed by humanitarian organisations in the field.
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>On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Markware Software Services <markwaresoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hi Kate, that is brilliant .. congratulations to you and the team who put that together ..
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>>On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Kate Chapman <kate.chapman at hotosm.org> wrote:
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>>Dear HOTies
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>>>We have some exciting news! HOT has been awarded a Hewlett Foundation grant to better support the Ebola response and the future growth of HOT. Hewlett will be funding a number of organizations as part of this full grant disbursement.  
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>>>The official announcement can be found here:  http://www.hewlett.org/newsroom/press-release/william-and-flora-hewlett-foundation-announces-5-million-emergency-funding-ebola-response
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>>>In our discussions with Hewlett, it was agreed that the funds would be used for the following key items: 
>>>* Technical Tools
>>>* Documentation and Training Resources to Support Activations
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>>>Your contributions continue to be used in the field and are invaluable to our partners. This grant has been made possible due to all your constant efforts. It is our goal to use these funds to improve your experience and support our contributors. I will be working closely with the activation leads, the Board, and our partners on the next steps. We will be working with the community throughout the use of this grant over the next year. 
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