OSM WOMEN COMMUNITY

Jessica Sena

Software Engineer

Geochica

@jsenag

OSM* SPANISH SPEAKING WOMEN COMMUNITY

@geochicasosm

https://geochicas.org

*OpenStreetMap

 OVER 1 MILLION
COLLABORATORS 

WORLD’S BIGGEST OPEN GEOSPATIAL COLLABORATIVE DATABASE

OVER 5 MILLION USERS

Only 3% of osm mappers are women

Budhatoki et al 2010 | Stark 2011 | Lechner 2011

 

What does it mean?

 

DATA GAP

 


*Although when mapping, the criteria may it seems objective, decisions such as what to map or not, what qualitative information to add, etc. is a personal choice, and therefore is subjective and may change. That is why it is necessary that more women collaborate in OSM, and to have the chance to give  our point of view, and to provide information/data that  perhaps men never would think about, but is indeed important for us and  may be useful for other women.

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Here I could explain with more detail the lack of  tagged facilities and services for women.

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Our goals:

 

  1. Increase the 3%

  2. Fight the current DATA GAP

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HOW?

Projects, tasks, workshops...

Initiatives...

(the idea is to talk about the most interesting initiatives in relation with this conference)

  1. #TheStreetsOfWomen

    1. Wikipedia GAP

  2. Mapatón 2nd Anniversary
    1. (facilities/services for women)
    2. Wikidata
  3. Mapeo #NoCallem
  4. OSM gender survey
  5. #LasCallesVioletas
  6. 13th OSM anniversary
  7. Map of feminicides in Nicaragua

 

#TheStreetsOfWomen

Carrer de Caterina Casas
Carrer de Carme Galceran
Carrer d'Anna Parellada
Carrer de Matilde Bertran
Carrer Carolina Catasús
Carrer de Cinta Amigó
Carrer de Francesca Cortés
carrer d'Emília Guàrdia
Carrer de Maria Noguera
Carrer de Dolors Modolell
Carrer de Josefa Trochà Cassà

And more...

MAPPING and Tagging

WOMEN Facilities

INTERNATIONAL GENDER REPRESENTATION SURVEY ON OSM

  • sexist tone in the channels demotivates participation

  • Women feel a systematic target of discrimination in channels

  • Attention calls are usually attacked (if they are women)

  • women are systematically considered as novice

  • need to define codes

  • Specific calls to empower women

  • Promotion of women networks and spaces

  • Peer-to-peer training

  • Attention to mapping-projects issues with impact on women


  • Discrimination is not based on gender

  • Cultural domination of European / North American men

  • Hostility by specific profile: fanatic-mapper, experimented VS novice

  • No formal impediment to participate = no discrimination

  • Lack of interest/participation must be respected

  • Doubts on the impact in the map, of the lack of diversitY

  • Attention calls about agressive tone in the channels are ignored

  • Do not separate genders but do more participatory activities

  • Focus activities on diversity in general, not just gender

 

WOMEN COMMENT

MEN COMMENT

#NoCallem

#LasCallesVioletas

(*Talk about the experience, and the results obtained in the places the activity has been done)

Feminicides in Nicaragua

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