Rootgis
General Information
Email address
antidykawamala@gmail.com
Primary contact's full name
Antidius Kawamala
Do you have an OSM account?
Yes
If yes, what is your OSM username?
KAWAMALA
Please indicate the name(s) and OSM usernames of any additional individual(s) who will be leading the execution of the project if this application is successful
Amani
Hemed
Rj360
If you have an OSM account, please check the boxes that apply
I am an active mapper
What is the name of the community group/organization this pitch is being submitted on behalf of?
RootGIS
Is your organization/community group legally registered?
No
If you indicated "No" above, please indicate the name of an organization who would be able to accept the funds on your behalf
Zalongwa Technologies Limited
Proposed project location
Tanga City at Bombo Regional Hospital
Have you previously been AWARDED any grants?
No
Please indicate the total funding amount you are requesting
4940 USD
Information About the Project
What is the problem that you are working to address in your community?
(In this section please describe in detail the challenge that your project addresses. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
1.Improving the public health registry records at Bombo Hospital in Tanga City urban, Currently the hospital is using SPSS which is the great statistical tool for data visualization and analysis but in this project we are going further to map the lowest level of administrative boundaries system that does not exist in Tanzania to map hyperlocal boundaries in Tanga City Urban, by so doing plays a critical role in determining where and when to intervene, improving the quality of care.
2.Increasing accessibility of service and finding more cost-effective delivery modes.
What motivates you to work on this issue?
(what is the reason that triggered, inspired you to work on this issue, we recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Finding people with exact addresses is nearly impossible, as the lowest administrative boundaries being subward/village. Therefore, mapping Tanga City Urban to such a detailed level will allow us to address health issues including sporadic diseases and epidemiological ones at a neighborhood level for the first time in Tanga City Urban. This is very important and will be used at different levels for decision making from individuals to the government.
Have you worked on solving the same issue before?
Yes
If yes, what have you already done to solve this issue?
(Please be specific and highlight your greatest accomplishments, We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) If none, write N/A
We have developed the dashboards and health registry system for recording patients location records at Bagamoyo District Hospital in partnership with other organization during the outbreak of Cholera disease in Bagamoyo.
The technician/data clerk at the reception uses the system to enter the information of the patient including where he/she is from and other attributes, finally these data are being analyzed and results are displayed in a dashboard showing a summary in a daily, weekly and monthly the location of patients with cholera. Hence decision making
If yes, what challenges have you faced in your work to solve this issue, and how did you respond to these challenges?
(Please be specific and highlight your biggest challenges and how did you solve them,We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) If none, write N/A
Technology gape - Most of the staff/ health workers are missing the crucial knowledge on geospatial technology, so we had to conduct the training on the basic knowledge on this technology for both of the teams to be in the same page along the execution of the project.
Inconsistency in data Accuracy and transparency - This is the great challenge where the patient gives the false information about the his/her location due to the fear that we might track him/her afterwards, but later on we realized this and we recommended that the data clerk/technician to educate on the advantage and usefulness of the data they are providing
If no, what do you anticipate as challenges while working towards solving the issue?
(Please be specific and highlight the biggest challenge you might face when working on this project ,We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)If none, write N/A
N/A
Describe your sustainability plan
(In this section please describe how your activities will continue post-funding. If you are applying for funding to purchase equipment, explain who will store/use the equipment you purchase, and if you have long term sustainability plans for your community's development. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Mapping activities on the less mapped areas of the hospital catchment, as the policy of OSM Project is to create a free editable map of the world.
Furthermore to run maptimes and community engaging mapping activities around the project area.
Recruiting new members and formulation of new OSM Chapters in Tanga
Project Goal
What are your community defined project goals
(Please explain your project goals. This can include: setting goals such as "we will train X number of new community, "we will register as a legal entity", or "the data will be used by X", and why these goals are important to your community such as "we intend to engage X number of women in mapping activities so that we can empower local women” We recommend your response be a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Project execution shall include one team per ward with an expert or experienced mapper and not less than three assistants, moreover in every team we expect to have two local women.
Each team is going to be working with the local leader called mjumbe, with their smartphones/Android installed with latest version of ODK, where by they will be moving around local leader while tracing the polygons and feeding in information like the name of leader, shina number and the like.
It is our ambition that we keep working with HOT communities and from this partnership we can touch as many communities as we can.
We look forward to establishing new OSM chapters in Eckernforde University and other training Institutions in Tanga City also collaborating with OSM Societies and communities as Open Map Development Tanzania, and Stakeholders so that our data will be used and trusted
What are your project long-term goals?
(Please describe your project vision. This can include: where you see your project in five years' time, how you want your data to be used, future partnerships you'd like to establish, or how you would like your project to grow (or not!). We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words)
We want to create and build a foundation of strong community by using and developing tools for the community,
We strive to be the strong and reliable all over the aspects, we are developing environment to be able to disseminate all kind of data and education through workshops, mapathons, partnerships, events, you mention it, it is through this we meet new and different faces and new challenge that builds us to be strong and reliable in all over the aspects,
Serving the community with the open data and open tools found in the local community, so any community and organisation that has the same vision like ours then it 100% that we are going to look out for partnership with them.
List the tools you intend to use during your project and why
(Please describe which tools you plan to use to collect, update, clean, or store you data and why. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
A team will need a smartphone/Android phone installed with a latest version of Open Data Kit (ODK) which allows tracing lines/polygons easily. Mjumbe, who is a shina leader, works with a team (mappers) to trace the boundary of his/her shina – also explaining the possible uses of shinas to enhance collaboration and participation.
A mapper with mjumbe will walk around the boundary creating a polygon-like structure then fill the right information on the survey such as number of shina, name of shina mjumbe and others.
After tracing the shina boundary, mjumbe and mapper use the printed aerial imagery as a field paper to compare what has been traced from the field with the image to make sure they have traced the correct boundary.
Then each team will send a form/survey to the Kobotoolbox server for further processes. Data will be downloaded from the server which will be cleaned, digitized through QGIS software, analysed and a hyperlocal boundary map produced.
ID Editor. This is a web-based OpenStreetMap editing tool that can be used to contribute to OpenStreetMap.
JOSM. Java OpenStreetMap Editor is a desktop tool that is used to edit and validate OpenStreetMap data. During the training workshops, all members will be trained in the use of ID Editor and JOSM to contribute to OpenStreetMap.
What additional knowledge or skills do you need to improve the effectiveness of the project?
(if there is any addition training you will need example how to use open source tools ,how to write good report etc please identify them below and why, We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) If none, write N/A
n/a
Explain how you plan to share your stories
(Please give examples of how you will use to share your stories with others. This can include: how you will publicise your news, where you will collect media content, how you will use social media channels, and if you will reach out beyond your immediate network to share your stories. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Local meetings with every team, trying to educate and show the importance of the mapped local boundaries the so called shinas,
Workshops, exhibitions , events and the like with different stakeholders and individuals trying to explain the whole process and how it went.
Online sessions, media like twitter and the like have them posted with everything
Dashboards that shows weekly and monthly summary of patients registry records
Ownership
Describe who will own/access and use the data
(It is important that the data you generate during the project is useful, and that it will be used to advance humanitarian and/or development challenges locally. In this section, please include: if the data you will be collecting has been requested by who , if there is an established formal relationship with any organization , and if there is an existing MoU between you and the partnering organisation, and how long have you been working with the partnering organisation. If your organisation or community is going to be the data user, please describe how will they use the data, and how they will access the data also is there possibility of other similar organizations to access and own the data . We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 400 words.)
Improving the public health registry, so the data being collected is going directly to be used by Health officers in decision making.
Researchers during disease outbreak and epidemiological studies.
Local leaders to manage the areas by allowing the ward/subward/shina leaders to better understand the structure of their areas.
In case of emergencies (e.g. diseases, fire outbreaks or flooding), shina maps can be of help in responding to these disasters as the location of the target is known.
Describe any other community/organization you plan to approach and share data for the purpose of the project impact
(In this section, please describe any additional partners you might be working with or share data with since they have indicated the need of data that will be collected. If there are no additional partners (beyond the data user) this must be stated here. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) if none write N/A
Tanzania Data lab also known as dLab has been working hard in the data arena by harnessing the power of local data, so it is our great ambition that through this partnership we do nothing but the best from both sides.
Inclusion
How will you ensure that your project activities will consider gender/children?
(Please describe how you will engage women/girls and school children in your project activities. Please include the number of women, girls or marginalized groups you plan to work with and how, and at which point in your activities you plan to engage them. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words).
The teams are going to be formed in every ward that covers the Bombo hospital catchment, and in these groups we shall have an expert, this will be a key person in every team, a contact person and someone who makes sure that everything is copacetic, this expert shall have assistants and these assistants shall include two women or girls in every group, the local leader so called mjumbe and local youths from the local society/shina through out the project.
Open Knowledge Evolution
Explain how you plan to expand your mapping community
(In this section, please include: your approach of working in a peripheral area to expand the knowledge, how will you engage new members from an unexposed community, how many new members you plan to recruit, and how will you retain community members throughout the duration of the project and beyond. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Before project execution, we will have different tasks such as training about ODK, QGIS, Data Structures, Kobotoolbox and the like.
Recruitment of new OSM members as well as formulation of new OSM Chapters in Eckernforde University and Institutions as experts and assistants for the teams.
Cooperation
Describe the communities you are already working with
(This may include local government, private sector, institutions or OSM communities (as examples). If you are not already working with any of the above communities, please state this and explain how you plan to work with other communities in your project. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Currently in Tanga there are no OSM Chapters so we have been in touch with Tanzania Data Lab(dLab)
Open Map Development Tanzania(OMDTz) which has the outstanding performance
Youth Mappers Chapters as University of Dar es salaam Youth Mapper and Ardhi University GIS club.
Describe other communities you plan to approach, or establish relationships with, for the purpose of the project
(We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
We are having an outstanding relationship with dLab in every aspect, we seek to keep it that way for this project and for the forthcoming projects.
Youth Mappers Chapters as University of Dar es salaam Youth Mapper and Ardhi University GIS club.
Supporting Documents
Please share a PDF version of your proposed budget
(Your budget must be detailed and realistic. The calculations should be correct, and budget lines should reflect with the activities detailed in the project plan. You must provide an explanation of why you need the item that you’re budgeting for. By using this budget template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LYNfZLQqpD6j1NexI4i8tCscIPxiBdnarXIudplE/edit?usp=sharing make sure you write the name of the project as your budget name name)
Please share a PDF version of your proposed project plan
(The project plan must be realistic, and must provide a detailed timeline for the activities outlined in your application. We recommend that you articulate your activities succinctly and clearly align the activities with your project description and your budget. By using this working plan template https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ETbSEoqzaol4fVVOjV4P89Y2WCMPqCMWgzhXtPG4j8/edit?usp=sharing make sure you write the name of the project as your work plan name)
Submission
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Will this grant co-fund an already established project?
No
Please confirm that you have checked your application, and answered the questions to the best of your ability
Yes - I'd like to submit my application