Les Libres Geographes

Les Libres Géographes (LLg, ” The Free Geographers”) is a French non-profit, secular and apolitical association, officially constituted in March 2017 by a collective of GIS and software development experts who have been using the principles, tools and practices of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project, free software and open data movements in a humanitarian and development context since 2010.

LLg conducts its activities by systematically seeking to use, support and strengthen the OSM project, free software and open data communities in developing and least developed countries.

LLg operates primarily in French-speaking countries of the South through local community empowerment programs to build self-sustaining local capacity of communities to interact with local and global geomatics, OSM, open data, and open source software actors.

LLg and its partners always engage in humanitarian or developing areas through ad hoc approaches adapted to poverty contexts and taking into account existing local volunteer dynamics.