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From Local Maps to Global Impact: What We Learned from the UN Maps Community Ambassadors Pilot Initiative

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Community Ambassadors in action
From March to early June 2026, four (4) Community Ambassadors from Argentina, Cameroun, Kenya and India led mapping activities, built partnerships, mentored new contributors, and is laying the groundwork for a more sustainable and community-driven future for UN Mappers.

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Introducing the UN Maps Community Ambassadors

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UN Maps Community Ambassadors
The UN Maps Community Ambassadors will support mapping and community outreach activities of UN Maps. They will lead and coordinate local community engagement through capacity building and training opportunities. Through this pilot, we hope to gain insights on how we can strengthen a community-owned and sustainable open data, and to explore the feasibility of establishing local UN Mappers chapters and/or communities.

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UN Mappers participated in the State of the Map 2025 conference

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Photo credits: Monica May Mendoza, University of the Philippines Resilience Institute

Photo: Monica May Mendoza, University of the Philippines Resilience Institute

On October 3rd to 5th, 2025, the global State of the Map (SotM) conference was held in Manila, Philippines and remotely. Attended by nearly 350 participants, the conference gathered diverse contributors and open mapping communities from all over the world - mappers, community activists, open source developers, university researchers, and GIS professionals.

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UN Mappers collaborates with EUthmappers to bring Open Mapping in secondary schools in Europe

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UN Mappers collaborates with EUthmappers to bring Open Mapping in secondary schools in Europe
We have partnered with EUthmappers, a project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and supported by Politecnico di Milano, Italy, to advance the goal to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge in secondary schools in Europe by training teachers and students on collaborative geospatial information.

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