My name is Innocencia Sigfrid a crowd2map intern in Everywhere She Maps project where female mappers are given chance to strengthen their network and also adding underrepresented places to the map.

I had a chance to attend the online conference State of Map Africa (SotMAfrica) Which is a biannual regional conference that celebrates the culture of open mapping,open data, Geographical information system (GIS) and its impacts across Africa.

It was my first time to attend to this conference and the experience was extraordinary as I happed to gain more insights about open street map Africa and found out that Open Street Map Africa is a strong and a growing network and from this network personally I can bring a lot of positive changes in my community.

During the conference I got the chance to participate in different sessions hosted by different people, organizations, youth chapters where I learned on how they perform different projects and other activities in their community and it was during this time that I convinced my self that everything is possible when a team is well organized and have same goal to accomplish. I was inspired by all speakers but more with OMDTZ, IRDP, ENOCK who presented about beyond mapping,SHAMILLAH &CLAIR who presented about the lessons learned from building footprints import,TONNY JOHN,