Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Dana Gallaty is an experienced operations and program manager with a strong background in international development and humanitarian efforts. Currently serving as Global Operations Manager at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team since June 2020, Dana has contributed to the analysis and development of operational processes, international recruitment, diversity initiatives, and field training. Prior experience includes roles at The Tembo Group, managing media analysis and day-to-day operations, as well as program management positions at The HALO Foundation and Invisible Children Inc., where responsibilities involved liaison work and program support. Dana holds a Master of Science in International Policy Management and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Affairs from Kennesaw State University.
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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Free, collaboratively generated maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work and economic development, especially in places where base map data is often missing, out of date, or rapidly changing. OpenStreetMap is an open data project founded to create a free and open map of the world, built primarily by volunteers surveying with pencil and paper, GPS units or by digitizing aerial imagery and finding and liberating existing public sources of geographic data. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [HOT], a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was launched in 2010 to promote and support the thousands of volunteers and dozens of local groups around the world that work to build OpenStreetMap, with an emphasis on humanitarian mapping to aid disaster relief, preparedness and economic development. In its role organizing crisis response mapping, HOT acts as a bridge between the OpenStreetMap community and traditional humanitarian responders like MSF, the Red Cross, UNOCHA as well as local groups and governments. To further the mission of OpenStreetMap, HOT sponsors and coordinates the development and hosting of several open source software tools specifically for the OpenStreetMap community. We also fund field training and data collection for existing and new OpenStreetMap groups, produce learning and training materials for people doing OpenStreetMap mapping and train skilled mapping coordinators to organize volunteer mappers' efforts in emergency response to crises and disasters. HOT sponsored teams work in countries around the world helping collect geographic data and training and learning from local communities to map information in OpenStreetMap that is important to them. Our goal is to help build self sustaining local groups of motivated and skilled mappers. We are dedicated to applying the principles of open source software and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development and inclusiveness in all of our endeavors.