The Reslience Academy is a World Bank funded program aimed at equipping young people from various universities in Tanzania with tools, knowledge and skills to address the various urban challenges and ensure resilient urban development.
In 2019, over a 6 week period, Spatial Collective trained over 50 students from the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) in various geospatial data capture techniques and further organized mapping campaigns in 42 shehias of Zanzibar Urban West Distirict. From these campaigns, approximately 100,000 buildings were digitized, over 1,000 amenities captured, 5,000 businesses documented and 35km of drainage mapped. All these datasets were made available on OpenStreetMap and the Resilience Academy Geonode.
