Join us at this free event to hear from a range of organisations that produce and use Open Data in Tanzania with use cases to improve Public Health and Flood Resilience in the cities also reduction of Gender Based Violence (GBV), Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) etc. No prior knowledge is needed. There will be a keynote on what is Open Data and the advantages of using Open Data in your work, followed by a review of the Open Data that is available to help you. Then there will be an overview of the free tools you can use to collect, analyse and map Open Data. We will then hear from a number of experts on how they use Open Data to plan and evaluate their work, with an opportunity to ask questions.

In the afternoon there will be breakout sessions on an introduction to mapping with OpenStreetMap, collecting data with Open Data Kit, and using more advanced tools like JOSM and QGIS. For these you should bring a laptop if you have one.

Everyone welcome.