User:Innocent maholi

Innocent Maholi holds a Bsc. in Urban and Regional Planning from Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Since his early days after graduation in 2015, Innocent worked with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in several positions including the Deputy Country Manager for Tanzania.  In 2017, Innocent co-founded a local mapping organization OpenMap Development Tanzania best known as (OMDTZ) which he now heads as the Executive Director.

Innocent is an open mapping guru, trainer and open data enthusiast dedicated to building sustainable communities that collect, analyze and use open-data for informed decision-making to solve local challenges. Among others, Innocent’s drive is on SDG GOAL 13: Climate Action as well as GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Innocent and the OMDTZ team have heavily engaged in the success of most community mapping projects in and outside Tanzania through capacity building, training and knowledge sharing. For example, they have worked with communities under the Ramani Huria ---a community mapping for flood resilience project in Dar es Salaam to train university students and community members create highly accurate maps of the most flood-prone areas of the city--- to improve Disaster and Risk Management in the city and create datasets for government and other stakeholders to use to create better environment for urban resilience.

Innocent is part of the Resilient40, a group of African Changemakers that provides a voice and platform for youth to act and create interventions for a climate resilient Africa.