2025 State of the Map Africa Travel Grant Scholarship in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The State of the Map Africa (SotM Africa) is a bi-annual regional conference that celebrates the culture of open mapping, open data, GIS and its impact across Africa. The first SotM Africa conference was hosted by the OSM community in Uganda in 2017.
This year’s conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania will continue to build on the strategy envisioned for OpenStreetMap in Africa as a renewed, strong, and growing network, and as part of the global OpenStreetMap and Open GIS movement.
About the Travel Grant
State of the Map Africa provides scholarships to facilitate accessibility and enable attendance and representation from many African countries at the State of the Map Africa Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania which will be held on 28th – 30th November 2025.
Summary of the 2025 State of the Map Africa Travel Grant Scholarship
- Type: Grants/Conference
- Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Who can apply: African Citizens
- Date: 28th – 30th November, 2025
- Benefits: Full scholarship for early applicants which will cover all costs, Partial scholarship for late applicants, Opportunity to attend the SotM conference among others.
- Deadline: July 31, 2025
2025 State of the Map Africa Travel Grant Scholarship TypesÂ
There will be 2 different scholarship prizes:
- Partial – Covers either conference registration or accommodation or both.
- Full scholarship – Covers all conference costs (Transport, Accommodation, Conference Registration, meal stipend)
The size and number of scholarship prizes you receive may be adjusted depending on the amount raised by our fundraising committee and will be very competitive.
It is recommended that applicants apply for the smallest prize that will allow them to attend SotM 2025.
Note: Applications generated by AI will not be eligible
Deadline: July 31, 2025
