I am grateful for the HOT Voting Members nomination by Adityo Dwijananto, DMI Project Coordinator Indonesia. Please find below my personal statement.

How did you become involved in HOT?

I was first exposed to the work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in Indonesia as a Communications Specialist back in early 2014. Coming from neither Geography nor IT related background, I was confronted with a significant challenge trying to understand even the most basic terms used in what I see as somewhat foreign and uncharted field. I was lucky enough, however, that I got to work with a bunch of patient and talented group in HOT Indonesia as it gave me space to slowly digest and connect the dots between my social and international affairs background with a more technical domain. And to come to think of it, coming from a non-technical background has helped my work which is, in a nutshell, to try to convince people that mapping is not as difficult and as technical as it seems. This has enabled me to relate more on the way muggles see crowdsourced, digital mapping from an external, non-technical persons’ view and communicate it in plain language that community members can relate to.

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

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