Jessica Sena
Software engineer. Design and development of web and mobile applications
JESS
María Ballesteros
GIS Analyst
@maballesrin
who are we?
OpenStreetMap women's community
Openstreetmap?
@geochicasOSM
~5 MILLION USERS
1 MILLION CONTRIBUTORS
world's biggest open GEOGRAPHIC collaborative database
@geochicasOSM
Openstreetmap?
Budhatoki et al 2010 | Stark 2011 | Lechner 2011
ONLY 3% ARE WOMEN
@geochicasOSM
Openstreetmap?
LOTS OF DATA
NOT SO MUCH DIVERSITY
Budhatoki et al 2010 | Stark 2011 | Lechner 2011
ONLY 3% ARE WOMEN
why we do it?
- EMPOWER WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO HAVE MORE PROJECTS LED BY WOMEN AND FOCUSED ON WOMEN.
- ENLARGE THE OSM WOMEN'S NETWORK.
- HAVE MORE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN OSM AND TECH ACTIVITIES.
- CREATE MORE RELEVANT GEOSPATIAL DATA FOR WOMEN
Close the DATA GAP
OUR PROJECTS
OUR PROJECTS
OUR PROJECTS
OUR PROJECTS
online training spaces for women
geochicas take... sao paulo, lima, dar es salam, detroit, barcelona, madrid, buenos aires,BUCAREST
Where are you? (TODAY'S MAP)
HOW WE CREATE A PROJECT
mapathon for health infrastructure
Some text saying why this topic and when?
Show some screenshots with results?
mapathon for health infrastructure
the streets of women
- The project arises around International Women's Day 2018
- It is intended to make survey information about passages, streets, avenues, roads that are named after a woman also linking it to Wikipedia to check if there is a biography written about her
@geochicasOSM
@geochicasOSM
THANK YOU!
@geochicasosm
https://geochicas.org
https://github.com/geochicasosm/
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GeoChicas
https://geochicas.org
@geochicasosm
QUESTIONS?
Copy of Geochicas Summer Camp Arizona University
By Jessica Sena
Copy of Geochicas Summer Camp Arizona University
Bucharest August 2019
