Leen D'hondt
Director of Tech & Data
Leen D’hondt is Director of Technology & Data at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), where she leads the organization’s technology and data strategy and oversees open-source geospatial tools used by humanitarian responders and mapping communities worldwide, from AI-assisted mapping to drone imagery.
Leen has spent 20 years working in geospatial across the public and private sectors, from development work in low-resource settings in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to corporate geospatial solutions in Belgium and Thailand. Since joining HOT in 2022, her work has been guided by a simple mission: connecting people through mapping for social good.
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April 23, 2024
Our End-to-End Mapping Solution: Training the Balinese Disaster Response Team in Karangasem
HOT envisions an ecosystem of open mapping technology that enables everyone, and in particular vulnerable communities, to make the right open map data available in order to use that to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
June 24, 2024
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) joins the Overture Maps Foundation
After careful consideration, we realized that joining the Overture Maps Foundation will enable us to fulfill our role as an organization dedicated to the creation and use of open map data for humanitarian action and community development.
March 26, 2025
Can low-cost drones contribute to mangrove monitoring and conservation? Testing Drone Tasking Manager in La Paz, Mexico
