Geoffrey Kateregga
Global Community Mobilisation Advisor
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Kateregga is a Global Community Mobilisation Advisor with 11 years of experience building and sustaining OpenStreetMap communities across Africa, currently based in Kampala. He designs and delivers capacity building, mentorship, training, and microgrant programs that enable locally led mapping initiatives to produce data used by humanitarian and development actors. Geoffrey has progressed through technical and leadership roles at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, from mapping supervisor to regional hub manager and global advisor, giving him deep operational knowledge of field mapping, data quality, and community logistics. He focuses on shifting power by developing local leadership and peer networks so beneficiaries become active agents of change rather than passive data sources. Fluent in bridging technical GIS workflows (QGIS, InaSAFE) with community mobilization, he also brings practical experience translating training materials and organizing multilingual, regional events. His work is notable for combining hands-on mapping supervision with strategic program design to scale sustainable, diverse mapping communities.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology at Amity University
Github Skills (27)
openstreetmap10
overpass-api10
dedicated10
updating10
issue-tracking10
documentation9
jekyll8
region7
qgis4
grav-plugin4
api3
python3
fetch3
osm-data3
wps3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kateregga1/hotosm-website
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
The website of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years
osmhumanitarianopenstreetmap
kateregga1/kateregga1.github.io
Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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