Open Mapping for Urban Resilience: A Routing Model to Nearest Safe Spaces in Earthquake-Vulnerable Dhaka (sotm2025)

Dhaka, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, faces a high risk of catastrophic damage in the event of a major earthquake. The lack of accessible open spaces poses a serious challenge for emergency evacuation and survival. This project utilizes OpenStreetMap (OSM) road and building layers, combined with satellite imagery, to identify existing open spaces across the city. Using ArcGIS, a routing model was developed to guide individuals to their nearest safe zone during an earthquake. This approach demonstrates how open-source geospatial data and GIS tools can be leveraged for disaster...

Platinum Sponsor Session: From Edits to Impact - TomTom’s Journey with OpenStreetMap Communities (sotm2025)

TomTom partners with OSM communities worldwide to build richer maps through collective action. In this SotM Global event 2025, we share how we support university mapathons, YouthMappers, and humanitarian mapping in 189 countries, reflecting on learnings and challenges in scaling community engagement while advancing OSM’s mission through meaningful, local partnerships. TomTom and the OpenStreetMap Community share a common vision: building a map that reflects and serves the world, powered by local knowledge and collective action. In this session, We will be taking you behind the scenes of TomTom’s partnerships with OSM communities worldwide, demonstrating how...

EUthMappers - learning by teaching mapping (sotm2025)

EUthMappers is an ERASMUS+ initiative that promotes STEAM education in secondary schools throughout the European Union, enhancing students' digital skills and fostering environmental civic engagement. The project includes three universities, students and teachers from five European schools, working for two years. The project has three main phases: development of training materials, local mapping projects and humanitarian mapping collaboration. This presentation outlines the project's implementation steps and showcases the remarkable results achieved by not only participating students but also organizers. EUthMappers is an ERASMUS+ initiative that promotes STEAM education in secondary schools throughout the European Union,...

From the Browser to the Bloodstream

When a company collapses, its debts and assets are tallied, auctioned, and parceled out. But what happens when the “asset” in question is your very biology? That’s the question millions of 23andMe customers now face in the wake of the company’s bankruptcy.

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Dialing Back to Move Forward: Why the Landline Revival Signals a Future for Privacy

On September 30, 2025, The Washington Post reported a quiet trend in Washington, D.C.: the return of landline phones among officials and journalists seeking refuge from the omnipresent surveillance of smartphones. In a recent story, NBC News spotlighted parents in Maine and Seattle who are reviving landlines for their children—creating “landline pods” so kids can connect without the addictive pull of screens or the predatory reach of social media platforms.

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Who Owns Your Digital Self?

The lawsuits now circling Apple are not just about stolen phones. They are about stolen selves—stolen data, stolen memories, stolen identities.

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The Power of a Movement: Why Argentina in 2025 Is the Right Place for RWA

Crecimiento is here to prove what’s possible when talent, tech, and urgency collide in Argentina.

Quantum Safe Private Communications: Building the Future Before the Threat Arrives

Secure mobility is not just about encryption — it’s about sovereignty. The ability to own, control, and verify every layer of your communications stack is the difference between operational assurance and strategic vulnerability.

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Mapping the AI Universe: The Hugging Face Model Atlas

Hugging Face has become the default repository for modern AI models. What started as a hub for NLP research has grown into a platform that now hosts over two million models, spanning every domain of machine learning — from large language models and diffusion systems to niche fine-tunes for biomedical text, speech synthesis, or financial forecasting.

This success, however, creates a new difficulty: scale. With millions of models available, it has become nearly impossible to maintain an overview of what exists, how models relate to one another, and where innovation is actually happening. Traditional search and tagging systems are not enough...

Safety Without Surveillance: Designing Digital Sovereignty for All Ages

In September, a single misconfiguration in Life360’s Android API turned a “family safety” app into a map of human lives exposed. More than 442,000 users had their precise GPS trails, names, and phone numbers dumped online by a threat actor known as Emo.

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