MSF Geo Week Global Mapathons

This November, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) invites you to participate in one of our many Missing Maps mapathons with colleagues and supporters from around the world. These events are a part of OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week (aka OSM Geo Week), during which a global coalition of partners, community groups, and map lovers will join together to celebrate geography!

A joint initiative founded by Doctors Without Borders, the American Red Cross, the British Red Cross, and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in 2014, Missing Maps enables volunteers from around the world to update and create geographic data. Using OpenStreetMap, an open, free, and crowd-sourced platform, volunteers map regions where vulnerable communities reside, so international and local NGOs together with local institutions can better respond to crises.  

During the Geo Week 2024 MSF mapathons, volunteers will contribute to MSF's humanitarian work by mapping the outskirts of Sokoto, Nigeria to support MSF in its activities to address noma. Noma is a chronically neglected disease mostly affecting children under five living in poverty. The aim is to reduce the need for surgical interventions by combatting the main cause of the disease–malnutrition.

Join MSF staff for one of these Geo Week events:

Monday, November 18

MSF Germany, MSF Austria, the German Red Cross and HeiGIT virtual mapathon in German (7:00pm CET) Register here

Tuesday, November 19

MSF Czechia hybrid mapathon in Czech (6:00pm CET) Register here

MSF UK virtual mapathon in English (6:00pm GMT) Register here

MSF USA virtual mapathon in English (6:00pm EST) Register here

Wednesday, November 20

MSF Austria in-person mapathon in German (12:00pm CET) Register here

MSF Eastern Africa hybrid mapathon in English (3:00pm EAT) Register here

Thursday, November 21 

MSF Luxembourg in-person mapathon in English and French (6:30pm CET) Register here

MSF Amsterdam in-person mapathon in Dutch (6:00pm CET) Register here

Saturday, November 23 

MSF Korea in-person mapathon in Korean (1:00pm KST) Register here