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How can we increase diversity in OSM?
- Gender
- Gender identity
- Sexuality
- Race/ethnicity
- Disability
- Age
- Religion
- Class
- Region
- Language
- other?
Discussions within or about OSM
See also: Diversity Research, OSM Research and Education!
2012
- "A qualitative enquiry into OpenStreetMap making" (PDF), paper in New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia by Yu-Wei Lin, 28 March 2011
- "Guns, Germans, and Stripclubs: the Fates of OpenStreetMap with No Respect to Jared Diamond" talk by Monica Stephens at SheepCamp 2012, posted on 28 June 2012 (cited on diversity-talk as one of the inspirations for the list). Includes discussion of childcare tagging - see "Post-mortem" on Proposed features/childcare.
- "The New Cartographers: 'Mappy Hour,' Sex Clubs And Diversity", article quoting Kate Chapman, 21 October 2012
2013
- "Gender and Experience-Related Motivators for Contributing to OSM" research slideshow (paper), by Manuela Schmidt and Silvia Klettner, May 2013
- "The Threads of OSM Discussions: Are the Doors Really Open?", talk by Alyssa Wright, State of the Map US, 9 June 2013 (alternate link)
- osm-diversity repository readme, 17 June 2013
- "Gender and the GeoWeb: divisions in the production of user-generated cartographic information", paper in GeoJournal by Monica Stephens, 3 August 2013
- OSMF Board Manifesto by Kate Chapman, section on diversity, 25 August 2013
- "Changing the Ratio", keynote by Alyssa Wright at State of the Map UK, 7 September 2013 (description, blog post summary)
- "Those 3% Female OpenStreetMap Mappers" ("covers the key research findings from the project 'Fostering the participation of women in Voluntary Geographical Information (VGI) - encouraging FEMales to MAP'") by Manuela Schmidt, Silvia Klettner, Renate Steinmann, Elisabeth Häusler, and Yuwei Lin; session at State of the Map UK, 7 September 2013 (related to "Gender and Experience-Related Motivators for Contributing to OSM" from May 2013 above)
- "Next #geowebchat: diversity in geoweb communities" by Alan McConchie, 16 September 2013
- "Women on the Ballot for OSM-US: Why it Matters" diary entry by Kathleen Danielson, 4 October 2013
- "Wikipedia Diversity Conference: Bridging Communities" by Alyssa Wright at Wikipedia Diversity Conference, 10 November 2013 (notes)
- Interview with Alyssa Wright at Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2013, posted 21 November 2013
2014
- "Increasing diversity" diary entry by Hawkeye, 9 February 2014
- "Diversity isn't always what we think" by SK53, 14 February 2014
- "Getting all knitted up with childcare models : tagging and gender-bias" by SK53, 11 April 2014
- "OpenStreetMap – What’s next for the ‘Wikipedia of mapping” as it turns 10?", Tech.eu, 7 July 2014, mentioning diversity
- "How Street Maps Can Be Sexist", Fast Company, 16 July 2014, discussing OpenStreetMap and work by Alyssa Wright including a conference panel (blog post)
- "imperialist/sexist maps" by Nick Doty, 27 July 2014, discussing strip club and childcare tagging
- codes-of-conduct repository, September-December 2014
- "The diversity-talk list", diary entry by emacsen, 5 December 2014
2015
- "Maptime Summit at State of the Map US" by Beth Schechter, 3 April 2015, noting that Alyssa Wright's 2013 SOTM keynote inspired Maptime
- "Improving Diversity in OpenStreetMap" talk by Kathleen Danielson at State of the Map US, 7 June 2015 (video, slides)
2016
- "Equity in OpenStreetMap" by Robert Graham, Advancement Project California; talk proposal for FOSS4G NA 2016, Raleigh NC, May 2-5, 2016
- Is she part of your community? - SOTM2016 talk Srravya C. Sept 2016
- Empowering women through OpenStreetMap in Mali - SOT2016 talk Nathalie Sidibe. Sept 2016
2017
- Redressing the Exclusiveness. Challenges which prevent New Users from Contributing to OSM (pdf), short paper by Robert Vogler, Sabine Hennig Nicole Ferber in GI_Forum Journal, Volume 2017, Issue 1, pp. 294-299; July 2017
2018
- Gender differences in OpenStreetMap contributor activity, editing and tagging behaviour by Zoe Gardner et. al. at GIScience Research UK Conference, September 2018
2019
- The Gendered Geography of Contributions to OpenStreetMap: Complexities in Self-Focus Bias by Maitraye Das et.al. in Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; May 2019
- Quantifying gendered participation in OpenStreetMap: responding to theories of female (under) representation in crowdsourced mapping by Zoe Gardner et. al in GeoJornal, 29 June 2019
2020?
2021
- Webinars (two panel discussions) on Colonialism in Open Data and Mapping (organised and hosted by the HOT Community Working Group). Watch again on youtube: Session 1 | Session 2 February 2021
- Webinars (two panel discussion) on Challenging Sexism and Misogyny in the Open Mapping Ecosystem (organised and hosted by the HOT Community Working Group). Watch again on youtube: Session 1 | Session 2 March 2021
2022
- “Seeing the World Through Maps: An Inclusive and Youth-Oriented Approach” by Shraddha Sharma, Courtney Clark, Sandhya Dhakal & Saugat Nepal ; November 2022
- Part of the Springer Nature’s Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals © 2023
- keywords: Gender, Equality, Women, Nepal, Everywhere She Maps, YouthMappers
- my favorite quote: “Engaging Men in Women’s Empowerment” - "If you want to empower women, you need to engage men in this campaign as women and men are essential parts of society.”"