Data visualisation challenges gives an opportunity for university students to learn geospatial data visualization techniques in practice, when they take part as a group into a competition, where teams create real-world data visualization solutions based on TURP community needs and established cases. The learning process is mainly of-campus, based on teams working and seeking for advice and mentoring support from the universities’ experts.

A major part of the challenge has been face-to-face gathering of the team, which COVID-19 prohibits partially since the COVID-19 restrictions began. Since 1st June 2020, in Tanzania there was no restrictions for COVID-19 when the government opened the Universities. However, we would like to use this opportunity for 2020 visualisation challenge to be coordinated in an online platform which we developed to be used during COVID-19 period.