State of Tunisia 2011

STATE OF TUNISIA 2011

Chedli GhediraDenver – Colorado

10 September 2011

PRESENTATIONTunisia :

TUNISIA : PRESENTATION

•Area : 163 610 km² (Greece, Wisconsin)•Pop : 10 439 600 (Greece, Michigan)•Capital : Tunis•Hosts the most boreal point of Africa•Spoken language : Darija dialect•Official language : Arabic

THE REVOLUTIONKey event in 2011 in Tunisia :

TUNISIA : THE REVOLUTION

• Started : 17 december 2011 in a village named « Sidi Bouzid »

• Reached the capital Tunis : 27 december 2011

• Main effect : Ousting of president Ben Ali on 14 January 2011

Sidi Bouzid

TUNIS

THE REVOLUTION : IMPACT ?

Location Nature Impact OSM updatedTunis Trunk road New name YesTunis Place New name YesBizerte Primary road New name Not yetSousse Primary road New name Not yetMonastir Place New name Not yetSfax Secondary road New name Not yet

STATE OF THE MAP 2011Tunisia :

TUNISIA : STATE OF THE MAP 2011

PROBLEMS & ISSUESOpenStreetMap Tunisia :

PROBLEMS : PEOPLE

• 90% of OpenStreetMap data created by 10 contributors

• Today : 3 or 4 active contributors

• Mailing list unused• Tunisians are not

aware of the benefits of OSM project

PROBLEMS : HARDWARE

• GPS tackers & loggers are not available in Tunisia

• Smart Phones are expensive (3 times the minimum wage)

• Only one car navigation system (4 times the minimum wage)

• Tunisians are not familiar with this technology

PROBLEMS : INFRASTRUCTURE

• Street names are not always mentionned / readable

• Sometimes we notice two different names for the same street or two different spellings

MAIN PROBLEM : DICTATORSHIP

• Dictatorship hates :– Freedom– Every project not under control– Alternative solutions– Different minds/thinking– NGOs

• Tunisians were discouraged from joining organisations/having volunteer activity

OPPORTUNITIESOpenStreetMap Tunisia :

OPPORTUNITIES : REVOLUTION

• Democracy• Contact with the Open Source

Software Unit Chief at Ministry of Communication and Technologies

• New government aware of free software benefits

• Mapping parties allowed/encouraged• My first GPS tracker

MY WORKOpenStreetMap Tunisia :

MY WORK : STATS

Nodes Ways Relations OSM Data Date

... created: 10032 924 2 2011-06-19

... touched: 11831 3700 9 2011-06-19

... are the last modifier of: 8441 1153 1 (daily)

... have the following ranks: #7127 #6190 #10837 (daily)

Contribution to OSM in percent (last modifier): (0.0007%) (0.0011%) (0.0001%)

ChangeSets Changes First Changeset Last Changeset

1093 27080 Mon Mar 16 2009 Sat Aug 20 2011

(weekly Changesets update)

http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Chdoula

Joined OSM on July 25th, 2008

MY WORK : MAP

•Mapped all Tunisian highways•Creation of the Tunisian mailing list•Several adds to the wiki page•Organised the first vote about admin borders

THANK YOU !State of Tunisia 2011 :