 Well, I'm here to present a project from a group that's called GeoChicas. I'm Selena Yang, I'm a PhD candidate, also I'm going to say this right now, I'm really nervous, I haven't given a talk in English in a while, so I'm from the National University of La Plata in Argentina, I also work for an NGO in Paraguay that works with our digital rights advocates, and this project has nothing to do with my work, it's only about my interests of life and my research from my PhD. So I want to start by telling you who we are, GeoChicas is a group of women, all volunteer, we are over 200 women from 22 different countries, most of them are Spanish speaking countries, but we've also, from last year we were at a conference, that's called Phosphor G in the Arisalamtansania, and we started to talk with more women that are English speaking women. So the group is getting bigger and bigger, and we're now trying to escalate from just Spanish to also English. How we started is, I started researching for my, I started to do some research for my PhD project, and I needed to map some things, and I didn't want to do it with commercial mapping tools, so I asked around what was the open-source alternative to this, and many people pointed out to open-street map, so at that time I was living in Argentina, and I got into the community in Argentina, and there were around 72 men and only like three women in the group. Shocking. And I was really active because I was starting to learn everything for mapping, and I kept asking and asking things, and what time I don't know if many of you use telegram, but you can share stickers there, like our images, and one guy posted something that said we should have a map of whorehouses and something else, and I told them like, and then you wonder why aren't there not more women in these kind of groups, and the guy told me, and you wonder why you get called feminazis, I don't know if you're familiar with the term, which is the nazi feminist, also I'm a feminist and a human rights activist. So after that we started, I started to talk to other girls from the region to see what their experiences were in this subject and how they felt in the community. I was about to get out of the community just because of that. The guy just apologized I real quickly, he only said like, oh I'm so sorry I didn't mean to offend you about whatever. So the community invited me to go to something that's called State of the Map, I'm sorry, to State of the Map, which is the regional and international conference for Open Street Map to talk about my experience and there I met some other women from the community that had gone through the same kind of experiences, right? So that was back in 2016 in Brazil and we were just three women, and now as I was telling you we're over 200 and in 22 different countries and we're not only, I'm sorry, we're not only with the Open Street Map community right now, we're also with the OZGEO community, for those who are not familiar with that is the Open Geospatial Foundation that works with Open Geospatial softwares basically and again for those also who are not familiar with Open Street Map, it's the alternative collaborative open initiative and that has more than 4 million users, a lot of GPS points on the map, a lot of notes and more than a thousand collaborators. Also the thing with this is that only 3% of those collaborators are women, so we believe that in the map the data that's been collected is completely bias, gender bias, by fact. So we believe in the map as something that's not only a representation like a static representation of territory, but it's something that is some constant state of being and it's not only the representation, it's also a social practice that comes with all of, like all the knowledge and all the background that we have and when we map something, it's not only an objective point, a GPS objective point is charged with our subjectivities and how we think it should be mapped. So every node has, for example, tags that reflect what that node is, so for you to find the church, you need to put the point there, the node, and then put the information that that's the church. The same happens not only with churches but also with, for example, women services centers and things like that. So if you only have 3% of women mapping, it means that only 3% of women, of collaborators, are mapping things that are of our interest. So that's basically why we do it and we also are a community that wants to empower women in order to have more projects in the community that are led by women and that are focused on women. We also want to enlarge the OSM women's network because, again, as I was telling you, we're only, we're mainly in Latin America and Spain, and also the OSGEO network now. Have more participation of women in OSM and in tech activities, create more spaces in which we can discuss the role, the representation and participation of women because we don't see that women should be there as a number but we also want to analyze what are the, what are women, I'm sorry, in decision making spaces, what's the role of women in these communities and also the representation of their interest in interests, not only in the map but also in the community agenda. We want to also discuss better codes of conduct because this is something that, as I was telling you before it happened, this was born after someone called me feminazi, so that's completely wrong for us. And also I want to create more relevant geospatial data. As I was telling you, you can have a lot of data but not so much diversity in it. So for example, there's something that you go and you do a query on the data on OpenStreetMap and you can find more than, I think, a million car repair shops mapped but you can only find like 2000 feminine hygiene points of, I don't know how to say it in English, where you can find feminine hygiene products basically or you can have, I don't know, pick whatever kind of establishment you want but if you want to go check, if you can find a center that works with gender violence, for example, with victims, that's open, we don't use any kind of data that's imposed, you can only find like three. So that's why we do this because we believe that, again, that I super subjective and that we need to be there in order to find more things, in order to create more things and edit and curate more things that are of our interest. I want to show you a couple of projects that we have before I go to the main project that I was invited here to talk about. This is a feminine side map from Nicaragua. This was for 2017. We got this data from another group that's called Catholics for the Right of Choice or Decision. It's a Catholic group, a religious group that wants abortion to be legalized in not only Nicaragua but it's also, I don't know if it's only Latin America, maybe I think it's only Latin America. This is another project that we created which is a survey in the community to understand gender representation and how it affects the behavior of women in the community. We had more than 400 responses over this. It was translated in five languages and it's a lot like it's really long. I'm just going to show it real quickly. Have you ever had experience, difficult to express in front of you? These were the kind of questions because we wanted to see in depth what women were thinking. Actually community members were thinking but we were completely focused on women's experiences and this. We're still analyzing all the responses because, again, we're volunteers. We don't get paid for it to do this but still on the move to, for us to share the results later on this year. We also have another project that, and maybe let's see, okay, there it is. This is one of the first projects that we did as a regional alliance with the other open street map groups which is a regional map upon to map all the informal shelters in, let me tell you how many countries. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, we're eight different countries. We worked with NGOs that liberated data sets for this and also with the state of many of these countries and this was really focused also on women and how they lived their lives in informal settlements and what happens when this was also in an alliance with the humanitarian open street map team, hot, I don't know if you know it, but we wanted to see how living in informal settlements affected women's everyday lives. Awesome. This is something that we also did with the humanitarian open street map team. This is a photo map of Oaxaca region in Mexico that was hit by earthquake in 2017 and what we did is that we went mapping there to see how the immediate response was covered for the communities and also we went there a year later of the earthquake to see how the recovery of the streets were doing and to create like a cross-reference data about women reports on gender violence in informal shelters. This is an ongoing project still so we still don't have all the data but we finished collecting the data and we're still analyzing it but maybe by the end of this year as well it's going to be out there. This is our last project which is also a mapathon and what we're trying to do is to map all the regional centers for health services for women because as I was telling you you can find clinics but you cannot find clinics that have for example gynaecological services for women so when you try to search to find a China on the map you won't be able to find it so you would only find a clinic so you go around and around and at the end the map doesn't work for you because it's not showing what you need and this is something that we are doing for this year's international was really for international women's day as well as our second anniversary and we're doing this in Spain right now we have data sets from Spain, Mexico, Paraguay and we're still waiting to get more information from Argentina as well and so many other countries but most of them in Latin America and well this is I'm sorry everything's in Spanish but again we are Spanish speaking communities and these are we also create some like learning spaces because we believe as like you were saying before imposter syndrome this is something that many of us are not techies many of us come from social sciences but we have I don't know some interest on mapping our in data or in gender and we create like we think that it's important for us to see that many of us have the techie abilities that can be that we can learn from them instead of always calling out to other allies or just always boys to help us out with when something breaks or if you need someone to put up a server a geo server or something we still have the capacity and the abilities within the group so what we do our webinars and we do them almost we're trying to get them like to do them every three months because it's a lot of preparation and a lot of time consuming and it's been a great it's been a great experience and we have a next our next webinar it's on mapbox and some digital mapping and we also have another thing that started out as just getting together to have some drinks and complain about the community and that started out on Brazil when we first started as geochicas and now it has come like a big snowball thing that's called geochicas take so geochicas take lima and that's something that we create as a pre event for all the events that we go to and we invite women for a get together to get some dreams to tell us what they think about even if they're presenting if they're nervous if they need something and just like to break the ice with them and to feel that they already know someone at the moment that the conference starts because I don't know if many of you but sometimes when you go to a conference that's it if you don't have like social skills are done so yeah that's something that for us is really important started again as a get together but now it's something that's one of our main projects as well and many people are always like when are you gonna come here and have some drinks with us and this is only a women's group and it's not that we create an exclusivity groups or clubs or anything like that but for experience and for everything that we've gone through we understand that these are safe spaces and that we need them and I'm sorry for the milk but if you want mixed activities or anything you have the whole community but we need these safe spaces for us and now to what brought me here is the streets of women this was a project that initially started in 2018 around international women's day and what we try to do here is to gather information about nomenclature of the streets and why they're named after you know how many are they named after men or how many are named after women and also it's linked to wikipedia to see how many of these women have their biography written also I didn't put this here but wikipedia only has around 20 of women editors and only around 12 or 13 percent of biographies of women biographies in the wikipedia so for us this was one of our first projects in which we completely allied with another organization to to formulate this project and this is how it looks like also I just want to say we created this project but I'm not the technical head of the project so I'm just going to tell you a little bit of how we did it and show it around and maybe answer a couple of questions but if you have more techy questions about this I can derive you to the person who has all the tech knowledge so this is the map these are the cities that we've done and you're going to see that Argentina has many more cities but because it's a really big mapping community and it has Buenos Aires resistance to Rosario and you have Bolivia, Cuba which amazingly has the biggest percentage of streets named after women what I thought um Spain this is something that we didn't spend it's interesting because it's not only data sets that we got it from open stream but the I don't know how if it's municipality they contacted us because they wanted to give us their data sets that were already clean and completely in shape for us to use them and so we have Bada Lona in Barcelona in Spain we have Mexico the city of Mexico Assumption Faraway of course I leave there Peru and Uruguay and it looks a little bit like this so if you see if you see here you can see the amount of streets that are named after men the amount of streets that are named after women as a percentage and as a regular number and women having a Wikipedia article also percentage and numbers and you can only see color the streets that are named after people because we didn't want to include streets that were named after I don't know animals or battles or things like that but we believe in for example also adding the name of saints women saints because we're not religious many of us are not religious but many of them were actual women in history regardless of their Catholic aspects so they are included in Barcelona for example it's really weird because it's all of the formats of virgins so it's virgin walupe virgin maria virgin this Santissima virgin of something but we still added that and that's how it looks a little bit I don't know if you want to see another city and basically yeah the city of Mexico which is really big and the thing with this city is that it had a lot of now-at-the-names which was really hard for us because we're not from Mexico and a couple of people from Mexico actually curated this data set but still was really hard and how it did is it's on a script based on note we use a library it's called tirades to get all the open stream up data to create the geojaisons I got five minutes okay we used to use an API that was called genderized but it was really so for us to be calling out the server every time that we needed to do a consultation on the data sets so what we did is that we added towards to a local server a data set of Spanish names from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics and we also did a query on wiki data to extract 68 000 articles about women and these are the like how we do it we select the cities that we kind of know or that we know someone is there because we always um for us it's important that if we don't know the city there's gotta be someone local to tell us that yes this is a name of the street this is something that's something that happened to us in Argentina that there was a street well that was called Esmeralda that's a women's name but that was actually a street named after a battle or after a battleship so we had to take it out and this and that so yeah um so we do a cross reference from the Spanish names data set that we get and with the open stream of data set and what we have is an eight percent margin of error we're trying to lower that onto a one percent error but we're still trying to fix that um then we filter the streets by male or female names taking out the names that are not of people then we manually clean the data sets and that's like you need to get a drink sit good light and start doing it because it's not easy it's not nice uh what we do and also the last part is that we generate the doj son to compare it again and start painting out the the streets of open stream up and then we upload the results to our github we're trying to get to github because i know github's now from microsoft and that that's something that we're still trying to change and that's all thank you