In cooperation with the UP Resilience Institute, the nation’s premier and largest inter-high school geography quiz bee made a historic in-person comeback in UP Diliman last March 2-3, 2024. The 13th Philippine Geography Olympiad (PGO) was held at the University of the Philippines Integrated School Bulwagan on March 2, 2024 and UP Statistics (New Building) […]
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UPRI YouthMappers co-hosts OpenStreetMap Philippines Year-Starter Event
The UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers (UPRI YouthMappers), together with MapBeks and Geoladies Philippines, co-hosted the OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM PH) Year-Starter event last January 27, 2024 at the UP Resilience Institute Training Room. OpenStreetMap (OSM), an open-source software and geographic database for mapping maintained by a community of volunteers through active engagement and community participation, […]
UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers serve as resource persons in Geog 1 Service Learning Activity
The UP Resilience Institute (UPRI) YouthMappers served as resource persons in the Geog 1 (Places and Landscapes in a Changing World) Service-Learning activity last 20 December 2023. Ms. Monica Mendoza (co-mentor, UPRI YouthMappers) discussed the purpose and application of mapping, particularly OpenStreetMap (OSM), in humanitarian crises and disasters and how these maps help the community. […]
Geog 198 (Geography of Natural Hazards and Disasters) Service-Learning Activity
Ms. Monica Mendoza, co-mentor of the UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers, was a resource person in the Geog 198 (Geography of Natural Hazards and Disasters) Service-Learning (SL) activity last 6 June 2023. She talked about the application of mapping to humanitarian crises and disasters and taught the students how to contribute by mapping using OpenStreetMap (OSM). […]
OSM Talks: An Introduction to Open Mapping
The UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers were invited to be one of the guest speakers in OSM Talks: An Introduction to Open Mapping last 6-7 May 2023. The webinar was conducted to introduce the concept of open mapping and the potential of OSM to college students within the Davao Region as well as to kickstart […]
UPRI Talk: UPD Student Orgs’ Actions for Resilience
A step towards the goal of the UP Resilience Institute in empowering individuals towards resiliency through transdisciplinary actions is the UPRI Talk which is a platform to share and disseminate information to the general public in the effort of becoming a safe, adaptive, and resilient Philippines. The UPRI Talk entitled “UPD Student Orgs’ Actions […]
UPRI YouthMappers receives the 2023 Global Community Award and 2023 Women’s Participation Award
YouthMappers, an international university consortium on Mapping for Resilience supported by the USAID Geocenter, has released its list of chapter awardees for 2023. The UP Resilience Institute Youth Mappers (UPRI YouthMappers) is the student chapter of the network at the University of the Philippines Diliman. For this year, the UPRI YouthMappers has received the 2023 […]