Ambassador Spotlight ‘Tabuson Sharifu Nigo’

Introducing our latest Brand Ambassador Tabuson Sharifu Nigo who is from Uganda, Africa:

How did you get into surveying? I have gotten into geospatial industry through attending 4 years Bachelors Degree program with Ndejje university in Uganda under the faculty of Engineering and Survey in the Department of Geomatics

What are your plans as a Brand Ambassador? I’m looking forward into spreading and teaching the younger generation the information regarding the impacts that will be brought by open geospatial knowledge and spreading the news about GIS at large within locally where my community within is more prone to and globally.

Tell us a bit about what you do: Am a graduate land surveyor and geomatics Engineer with current residence in Uganda. As a pasionate geosptial engineer, I work with Open Street Map Uganda(OSM_UGANDA) and Humanitarian Open Street Map as a contributor in mapping and adding places affected by disasters on Map such that incase calamities arise, such places must be having a geospatial aspect and location known onto Map and during my time at Campus, I leant about YouthMappers community which is an association of university led geospatial community operating worldwide and with the research I carried out, I founded one YouthMappers community for Ndejje University with the names SPATIAL MAPPERS NDEJJE UNIVERSITY in September 2023

Anything else you’d like to add? With the foundation gotten from YouthMappers Community from Spatial Mappers Ndejje University & Open Street Map Uganda as a Chapter Founder in 2023 and OSM contributor in 2022 respectively, I’m looking forward in teaching and spreading the news about Surveying and Geomatics engineering in broader scope and i have started teaching GIS to other professionals already, and been taken for a 4 years Bachelors degree for the Geomatics Engineering, I believe I will serve my Community to the best and will be well represented because I am a leader and personally carry on and do a lot of research with which I believe my community will benefit from majority of the students did not learn about Geospatial