2026-09-01 –, Ran1
MAPME is a community-driven initiative promoting access to open GIS resources for planning, monitoring, and evaluation in international development. This lightning talk introduces its mission, key open-source tools, and use cases, showing how geospatial data drives development impact and how participants can join and contribute.
The MAPME Initiative (Monitoring, Assessment, and Planning for Measurable Effectiveness) is a community-driven effort that promotes access to open GIS resources for planning, monitoring, and evaluating projects in international development cooperation. By connecting practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers, MAPME fosters collaboration and the co-creation of tools and solutions using Earth Observation and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
The MAPME Initiative connects global development actors through four complementary pillars: a collaborative community that shares knowledge and fosters synergies; open resources and analytical tools for monitoring and impact evaluation; real-world collaborative projects applying geospatial methods; and the Geo4Impact event, which promotes exchange, partnerships, and innovation around open GIS for sustainable development.
In this lightning talk, we will introduce MAPME’s mission, showcase key open-source tools, and highlight concrete collaborations that demonstrate the initiative’s impact. Attendees will learn how MAPME empowers its members to transform geospatial data into actionable knowledge and how they can actively contribute to the initiative—whether by joining the community, sharing expertise, or applying MAPME tools to their own projects.
mapme.biodiversity package (https://mapme-initiative.github.io/mapme.biodiversity/index.html)
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Jin Igarashi is an open source full stack GIS developer, mainly working in water industry in Eastern Africa. He holds a master's degree in Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering, and several open source libraries used in managing water assets in water utilities in Kenya and Rwanda, which is maintained in GitHub. In professional work, he has worked in UNDP for developing GeoHub for nearly four years in the past, then now he is working for Fracta which develop AI solution to identify the risk of water and sewer infrastructure in USA and Japan.
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