User:Erick tamba
Erick is a Tanzania UN youth fellow in 2023, He is Serving as a YouthMappers regional ambassador for the YouthMappers Program funded by USAID Geo-Center where he supports university-led chapters in the East African region striving to share his skills in open mapping to support data-based decisions and solving community climate-related challenges. He joined the OpenStreetMap community in 2019.
Also, as the National Focal point for the United Federation of Youth for Water and Climate (UN1FY), His dream is to see a network of team players among youth who are focused on finding solutions for their communities by giving out insights and educating their local community, especially marginalized groups through capacity development and giving voice to youth to create team players among themselves in addressing climate and water-related challenges.
Erick is also a co-founder of a non-governmental organization GeoTE TANZANIA which aims to use Geospatial technology to help address sustainable development goals. As a researcher, Erick published the article titled “Analysis of the Current and Future Land Use/Land Cover Changes in Peri-Urban Areas of Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques” in the Tanzania Journal of Science.