Training cycle on responsible data management
Last month, CartONG provided a five-week remote training in English and French on data protection and responsible data management for 300+ practitioners from 12 humanitarian organizations.
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Ode to a geospatial humanitarian partnership and shared values
From Mexico to South Sudan, Malawi and worldwide, MapAction and CartONG have worked together for nearly a decade to bring geospatial solutions to the humanitarian aid and international development sector. Our underlying core shared values help us support NGOs and aid actors for more impactful assistance.
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Our mapathons are back!
As part of its support for the international Missing Maps project, CartONG organizes mapathons, also known as participatory mapping workshops. These regular events bring together our volunteers and anyone with an interest in humanitarian mapping!
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Civic service volunteers strengthen the localization of our projects
For several years now, CartONG has been recruiting civic service volunteers to support collaborative mapping activities, in particular mapathons. This year, CartONG participated for the first time in the International Volunteering and Reciprocity initiative.
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2 GIS training missions in the field to support the MSF GIS Centre
Over the past few weeks, CartONG, as part of its partnership with the GIS Centre of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), has been contributing to the training - in Kampala and Kinshasa - of MSF field staff active in Africa in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). An increasingly essential tool for improving the efficiency and speed of humanitarian operations.
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Participatory mapping for community health in Mayotte
Just over a year ago, CartONG carried out a participatory mapping project with Médecins du Monde France (MdM) in informal settlements in Mayotte. Having been involved for several years with NGOs fighting against inadequate housing (cf. projects in French Guiana and Burkina Faso), we wanted to revisit this project in the context of increasingly violent political evictions and the destruction of camps and shantytowns. This current situation echoes our questions about mapping the "informal". How can we safely produce geographic information in these neighborhoods, where it is sorely lacking?
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CartONG continues to expand its pro bono support!
CartONG has an active volunteer team and is constantly adapting its cooperation models to meet the challenges of collaboration between volunteers, employees and partner organizations.
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A look back at CartONG’s participation in the GeoNight 2023!
On Friday, April 14th, the 6th edition of the GeoNight took place, which honors geography and geographers! CartONG has, for the 5th consecutive time, coordinated several collaborative mapping workshops - also called mapathons - simultaneously in France, in French-speaking Africa and online!