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Sponsoring State of the Map 2024 in Nairobi
Founded in 2004, the OpenStreetMap project has revolutionized the geodata market. OpenStreetMap offers
world-wide, highly detailed, and current geodata at zero cost and under an open license. OSM's data iscollected by hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world, and their number is rising. Popular sites
use OpenStreetMap, as do countless hobbyists, hackers, and cartographers.
OpenStreetMap powers everything from efficient navigation and location search to beautiful special interestmaps and spectacular games; it is used in humanitarian efforts and by emergency services. The freely
available data is a catalyst for innovation in Open Source software, and software written for OpenStreetMap
is among the finest in the fields of geo editing, map rendering, and navigation.
The Kenyan OpenStreetMap community and the State of the Map organization team of the OpenStreetMap
Foundation organize the State of the Map Conference (SotM), held 6-8 September 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Sponsors are an integral part of the conference. Don't miss this opportunity to present your organization tothought leaders and community activists from around the world. We highly value your contributions and will
make sure they will be recognized!

Participants and focus
The conference addresses OSM mappers and community activists, open source developers, researchers
from universities and academic institutions, designers and cartographers, as well as GIS professionals fromprivate and public institutions. The conference will offer a common ground to people from various
backgrounds and disciplines, where they can meet and exchange knowledge, experiences, plans and ideason the development, use and improvement of OSM.
The SotM conference in Nairobi brings together some of the brightest and most active members of theOpenStreetMap surveying and development community for an intense exchange of results and ideas thatstrengthens the project and ensures its continued success.
We expect between 300 and 400 participants in Nairobi from all over the world. As in past years, SotM 2024
will be held in a hybrid format, which increases the accessibility of the conference even more.

We have different sponsor packages available, depending on the monetary support you want to provide.
Please contact us by 30 June 2024 to confirm that you would like to sponsor. We welcome sponsors afterthat date too, noting that it might not possible to ensure all the benefits, due to deadlines for (printing) orders.

Sponsor packages
PlatinumGold€ 25,000 € 15,000
Exhibition space (Nairobi and Venueless)Special appreciation

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SilverBronze Supporter€ 7,500€ 2,000

€ 500

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Opening Session

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Corporate discounts
As a “thank you” to our OSM Foundation tiered corporate members, we are delighted to offer a 25% discounton all State of the Map sponsorships up to the same level as your OSM Foundation corporate membershiplevel. Your largest eligible discount also applies to higher State of the Map sponsorship packages.

Exhibition spaces
State of the Map 2024 will provide a space for exhibition stands. This is perfect for showing off your services
and providing a visible place to start conversations with delegates. We also provide an exhibition space in theVenueless web platform of the conference. If your sponsorship level includes this, we will contact you closer
to the time to provide all the details.

Scholarship program
To ensure an accessible and diverse conference, we provide world wide scholarships to accomplishedcommunity members. As a sponsor you’ll be helping to bring talented people to the conference, whootherwise couldn’t afford the trip. The more you are able to sponsor, the more scholars we can invite to Stateof the Map!

Don’t see what you want?
Please let us know in which way you would like to support us. Apart from the above-mentioned offers we will
be happy to negotiate a customized sponsoring according to your wishes.
Please contact us at sponsor-sotm@openstreetmap.org.
Thank you in advance! We are looking forward to talking with you.