Hello HOT community,

First I would to thank you to Yantisa Akhadi for the nomination. I am really appreciate and excited to become nomination in HOT Voting Member. In this diary, I want share my statement for several question related that :

How did you become involved in HOT

My first time involved in HOT Indonesia at February 2012, HOT Indonesia, AIFDR (now DMInnovation) and BPBD DKI Jakarta open opportunity to digitize RW boundaries and infrastructures in Mapping DKI Jakarta project. The collecting data in the project for support flood disaster in DKI Jakarta. After the project, HOT Indonesia open recruitment for Trainer in SD4CP project. I applied and get the opportunity to work in the project since September 2012. I began to teach the local government and community to mapping with OpenStreetMap in their region. I also learn and teach about QGIS and InaSAFE with related with Disaster Management. As trainer, I not only teach them about OpenStreetMap, QGIS, and InaSAFE, I creating and update training material with team. Currently, I have given opportunity as Mapping Supervisor in PDC Project for mapping RW boundaries and infrastructures in Surabaya City and DKI Jakarta province. I’m very happy and grateful that I’m still become part of HOT Indonesia.

Could you tell us about your involvement in HOT, mapping and/or humanitarian response?

Since I became trainer, I learned many activities with related OpenStreetMap and disaster response, training, create material, mapping event, validation data OSM, and ensure the people using OpenStreetMap. I also attended and share my experience in State of the Map Asia in Manila and get scholarship in State of the Map US 2015 in New York City. For humanitarian response, I’m digitize in TM Indonesia and other countries such as Pidie Earthquake, Afghanistan EQ Response 2015 and validation TM Ecuador Earthquake, etc. I’m also join in mailing list HOT and import data OpenStreetMap. Also I’m teach and share my experience with OSM to the local people in ACCESS project for mapping household social economic in South Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi.

What does HOT mean to you?

For me, HOT means mapping and disaster response. With HOT, we can start to mapping infrastructures in disaster area priority and ensure the data spatial have good quality. HOT teach me, the data I mapped in OSM not only for me but to people in the world. So I can involved disaster response through mapping in OpenStreetMap.

Why do you want to be a voting member?

Because I want more get involved in HOT activities, learn more about the HOT organization, become part to support HOT sustainability.

As a voting member of HOT what do you see as your most important responsibility?

To participate and support HOT sustainability (especially in Indonesia) and ensure people using OpenStreetMap with good quality mapping in disaster response and other humanitarian aspect.

How do you plan to be involved in HOT as a voting member?

I will join in data working group and continue to involve in the import data mailing list. Also I will give my opinion in HOT mailing list. And as a voting member I will give my vote when HOT need some decisions.

What do you see HOT’s greatest challenge and how do you plan to help HOT meet that challenge?

I think the greatest challenge is to ensure the quality and source data in mapping OpenStreetMap to disaster management and economic development. Also HOT can sustainability as humanitarian organization in the world. We can give a support to government, local community, and universities, they will know that HOT exist and hopefully they will use OpenStreetMap to mapping their area. And we ensure their constantly using OpenStreetMap for mapping and possible to teach other people (Training of Trainers) using OpenStreetMap. Another HOT challenge, when mapper OSM has data spatial especially boundaries administrative and it’s upload to OSM. Sometimes he didn’t know about term import data in OpenStreetMap. So the data didn’t have licence and rule OSM. HOT mostly remote the people doing the import data in OSM.

That’s all my statement and happy mapping =)

Thank you