fAIr - Community AI Assisted Mapping Roadmap
07-16, 16:00–16:30 (Europe/Sarajevo), SA02

fAIr is an open AI-assisted mapping service developed by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) that aims to improve the efficiency and accuracy of mapping efforts for humanitarian purposes. The service uses AI models, specifically computer vision techniques, to detect objects in satellite and UAV imagery.

Indicate what is (are) the open source project(s) essential in your talk –

fAIr, AI assisted mapping tool roadmap in 2025 and what/how/why we have achieved in 2024.

How the future of humanitarian mapping might look like!

 Assign a number between 1 and 3 indicating the level of technical complexity of your contribution. –

2 - background knowledge helpful

 Select at least one general theme that best defines your proposal –

Spatial machine learning, FOSS4G and sustainable development goals (SDG)

 I make my conference contribution available under the CC BY 4.0 license. The conference contribution comprises the abstract, the text contribution for the conference proceedings, the presentation materials as well as the video recording and live transmission of the presentation – yes
Petya Kangalova

With over 10 years experience working in the international development and humanitarian sector, I would describe myself as an open tech advocate, a community builder, a facilitator with strong commitment and passion about making the tech industry more diverse and inclusive!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/petya-kangalova-43a2423b/
https://www.hotosm.org/people/petya-kangalova/

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Omran NAJJAR

Omran NAJJAR is the AI Product Owner in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team with 15 year experience in software engineering, information systems, advanced data management and artificial intelligence. Omran holds a MSc in EEE, Computer Science, Turkey (2020) with research thesis and experimental application on Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) algorithms and a MSc in Data Analytics and Information Systems Management, Germany (2023) with research focus on spatial and temporal analysis on OSM - Nepal. Omran has been working in humanitarian and development context since 2014, specialized in monitoring and evaluation, Information and communication technology and AI for social good. Currently, Omran uses that experience to pursue justice, ethical and open source tech to amplify the connection between human[itarian] needs and open map data .