2014 is one of hectic year for me with HOT. Things are going well in Indonesia with Scenario Development and Contingency Planning (SD4CP) and University Roadshow with Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR). Within this year, there are more than thousand people exposed with OpenStreetMap, QGIS, and InaSAFE

These are just some highlights for the project I’ve done:

1. Updates about HOT in Indonesia
2. OSM Training fro Flood risk mapping in Malawi
3. Fieldwork in Nsanje District Malawi
4. MissingMaps Jakarta
5. OSM Training of Trainers in Philippines

I also involved with some training group within HOT, mostly for Training Working Group as I’ve done a lot of training, module creation, including translation of training materials. For people who wants or interested about OSM training, I encourage you to join this working group.

I would’ve never done so much things without the help of HOT community, including my co-workers in Indonesia. So I would like to thank them :)

Now 2015 is here. There are things I would like to see more with HOT community as it’s getting better in terms of numbers of volunteers, governance, support, and also recognition. I would like to see more activation, more activities, growing more network and partnership with other organizations, and improving more tools to make humanitarian mapping easier.

My contribution for this year maybe won’t be huge as the past three years. Some people might already know that I’m going back to school. My work experiences within HOT in Indonesia and some part of the world has brought me to a full scholarships program from New Zealand Aid for Master of Geographic Information Science (MGIS) at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

I’m so excited and a bit nervous for going back to school, and I’ll live in Christchurch for 2 years. I hope I can meet HOT and OSM community there so maybe I could share some of experiences or maybe ideas. Without my presence, however, HOT still continuing the project in Indonesia with the rest of the team that I fully trusted. I hope, I still can give support remotely, not just for Indonesia, but also rest of the world.