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MapAid x Databricks
Accessible water data is not just a technical resource in Africa; it is the difference between guessing where help is needed and knowing where lives can be changed. Across the continent, vital information about wells, boreholes, water points, well maintenance, and community access is often buried inside scattered field reports, spreadsheets, government documents, and handwritten assessments. Making this data freely accessible allows us to see where water infrastructure exists, where it is failing, and where new investment is most urgently needed to help real people who need water.
This is why the Global Map Aid collaboration with Databricks matters. By using data classification to identify and organise documents containing well and borehole information, scattered African water records can become a usable metric of need, progress, and opportunity.
As a first step toward that goal, this platform serves as an initial prototype rather than a fully operational system for field trials. The goal is to experiment and explore what is possible as the underlying data and systems are being developed.
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