MERCY AKINTOLA

• Serve on the Board of Directors (2026–2030) as Website Administrator, supporting the digital presence of ISPRS STEP (formerly ISPRS Student Consortium).

• Lead the management, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Consortium's official website to ensure timely, accurate, and accessible information for the global community.

• Collaborate with the President and Board of Directors to p

As a Research Assistant on the Raising Adaptation Impact and Ambition (RAIA) Project, I support the integration of geospatial science, climate data, and stakeholder knowledge to strengthen climate adaptation planning and fiscal risk assessment in Lagos State.

The project, implemented in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and supported by the Adaptation Research Alliance

My focus is on ensuring that contributions to OpenStreetMap and related platforms meet high standards of accuracy, consistency, and usability for real-world applications, particularly in disaster response, climate resilience, and sustainable development.

A core aspect of my role involves providing guidance and mentorship to YouthMappers chapters on validation practices. This includes helping stud

Represents Nigeria in the global space community, connecting over 2100 Nigerian youths, researchers, and young professionals to international space initiatives.

Drives STEM and space advocacy and builds networks to expand opportunities in space and technology across Africa.

To ensure data quality
Validators also advise beginner mappers on how to improve their mapping
To understand the importance of data quality

About the Company:
Merczcord Technologies is a data-driven environmental and geospatial technology company empowering organizations to make smarter, more sustainable decisions. We combine innovation, mapping, and sustainability to build solutions that address Africa’s pressing environmental and developmental challenges.

What I Do:
As Founder and CEO, I lead a multidisciplinary team of geospatial

As an OSM Data Validator for the H2H Syria Project, I supported humanitarian mapping efforts by ensuring the quality, consistency, and usability of OpenStreetMap data for humanitarian operations across Syria. I collaborated with an international team of validators and project coordinators to improve mapping accuracy and strengthen contributor capacity.

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

Val

Community Science Fellows facilitate, manage, and support these community science projects, helping them achieve new understanding and unlock real science and sustainability solutions.

As a Geospatial Developer, I led the design and deployment of geospatial solutions that integrated cloud, data pipelines, and advanced spatial analytics to support disaster resilience, urban planning, and climate-focused initiatives.

Key Contributions & Achievements:

Deployed 5+ geospatial web applications using Flask, enabling real-time data visualization and analysis for location intelligence

I had the privilege of contributing to a transformative initiative aimed at addressing climate risks in urban areas across Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire.

🔹 Key Contributions:

Led comprehensive training for local mappers and city authorities, equipping them with advanced GIS and remote sensing techniques.
Ensured data accuracy by validating building footprints, road networks, and air quality metrics.

Support onboarding into the Milsat learning portal
Collaborate with the project team in the scouting, recruitment, training and onboarding of mappers into the enumeration network community.
Manage and address issues relating to the Enumeration network community.
Work closely with the project team in project execution and mappers management on the field.
Report product observations and field issues

- Recruits highly motivated students from institutions of higher education to create student-led and faculty-mentored YouthMappers chapters.
- Organizes basic mapping and skills training in open source mapping for remote mapping campaigns
- Introduces chapter members to approaches in data validation and tools for local mapping
- Reports on local mapping activities

Milsat Technologies is an African-centric startup that leverages the power of GIS to design and develop models, workflows, strategies and solutions that are simple and flexible enough to work within African countries.

I'm proud to contribute to the "Satellite Imagery for Social Good" project, a collaborative initiative by HOT and Microsoft, focusing on Kenya and Nigeria. Leveraging AI-assisted mapping tools like Map with AI and JOSM, I play a key role in adding and validating AI-generated building footprints to OpenStreetMap, essential for socio-economic planning.

Key Achievements:

Enhanced the accuracy of bu

The role of the co-lead ambassador is to be a deputy leader assisting the lead to achieve community goals in my university. My responsibilities include; Assist with communications of the community both on Whatsapp/Telegram group as well as the slack channel. To engage the university students on opportunity and activities.

Served as the 2021 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY for GISforAfrica
Development Project in Africa

- Served as a link between the youthmappers FUTA member and the external coordinator in handling mapathon, impact community projects and helping resolve work-related problems in the community
Involvement in Planning and conducting orientation to foster a positive attitude toward humanitarian objectives.
- Trained youthmappersFUTA students on how to use JOSM to map and contribute to the humanitaria

Tutoring number of students from Beginner to becoming Advance GIS Analysts in any area of the field willing to be good at.

Working with 40 other Inter from different countries across the world to provide quality data to revolutionize disaster management, reduces risks, and contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

- Promote the university by participating in the community and by developing mappers within the school premises.
- Collaborated with other youthmappers from different countries in organizing OSM monthly marathon.
- Drove short-term and advanced promotional planning processes.
- Contributing to our ever-changing earth by providing quality OpenStreetMap data to provide map data for unmapped places a

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