Geochicas

Geochicas was born in 2016, days before the annual OpenStreetMap State of the Map LatAm 2016 conference, in São Paulo, Brazil,{{Cite web |title=ES:GeoChicas - OpenStreetMap Wiki |url=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:GeoChicas |access-date=27 September 2019 |website=wiki.openstreetmap.org}} with the aim of discussing in a panel that would be proposed as a permanent activity, the causes and implications of the low participation of women in the construction of the map. The conclusions of this panel and forum with the total number of attendees allowed us to build the initial agenda of Geochicas, and link the first members.

The idea arose from three participants, Miriam González, Selene Yang and Céline Jacquin, who with this purpose participated in the organization of activities at SOTM in São Paulo. They organized a previous meeting between women attendees to talk about the problems they face as women in their geodate community and find out their interest in forming a network or collective. A panel was held at the close of the conference{{Cite web |date=29 November 2016 |title=Mapping, Tech and Communities—State of the Map Latin America |url=https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/11/29/sotm-latam-in-sao-paulo-brazil.html |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=The Mapillary Blog |language=en}} where the problematic issues of the gender gap in OpenStreetMap were raised, and the mixed group of the community present was discussed about the implications for a map so important for all types of decision-making in the world. The first lines of a work agenda were designed as conclusions of the panel and a communication channel was created integrating the interested women present. The popularity of this event led to the creation in the form of a collective focused on looking at the map of Latin America and the world, through a feminist lens.{{Cite web |last=Mukherjee |first=Ritoban |date=23 July 2019 |title=How the Geochicas are using crowdsourced maps to improve the lives of women in Latin America |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90380355/how-the-geochicas-are-using-crowd-sourced-maps-to-improve-the-lives-of-women-in-latin-america |access-date=27 September 2019 |website=Fast Company |language=en-US}}

In 2016 and 2017, the Geochicas created maps of both the oncology clinics in Nicaragua and the femicides in that country.{{Cite web |date=8 March 2019 |title=Geochicas, la colectiva geo-sorora |url=https://revistaemancipa.org/2019/03/08/geochicas-la-colectiva-geo-sorora/ |access-date=10 March 2020 |website=Revista Emancipa |language=es}} During those same years they created visibility campaigns on Twitter with the hashtag "#MujeresMapeandoElMundo",{{Cite web |title=GeochicasOSM Zaragoza Activa |url=https://slides.com/carmenl/geochicasosm-girona-2019 |access-date=10 March 2020 |website=Slides|date=18 November 2019 }} the "International Gender Representation Survey" on OpenStreetMap.{{Cite web |title=Gender Survey results Geochicas by Geochicas OSM - Infogram |url=https://infogram.com/gender-survey-results-geochicas-1h8n6me10q192xo |access-date=10 March 2020 |website=infogram.com |language=en}}

In 2018 they created a virtual map to make visible the lack of representation of women's names on the streets of cities in Latin America and Spain.{{Cite web |date=1 July 2018 |title=La equidad de género no llega a calles |url=https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/pais/la-equidad-de-genero-no-llega-a-calles/ |access-date=27 September 2019 |website=El Heraldo de México |language=es-MX |archive-date=27 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927162613/https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/pais/la-equidad-de-genero-no-llega-a-calles/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=GeoChicas: el callejero que denuncia la desigualdad de género |url=https://www.publico.es/sociedad/geochicas-callejero-denuncia-desigualdad-genero.html |access-date=10 March 2020 |website=www.publico.es|date=9 March 2020 }}{{Cite web |last=Candela Canales |title=El mapa de las calles zaragozanas: casi un 18% se escriben en femenino |url=https://www.eldiario.es/aragon/mapa-calles-zaragozanas-escriben-femenino-GeoChicas_0_995651194.html |access-date=10 March 2020 |website=eldiario.es |date=15 February 2020 |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=Clarín.com |title=El mapa machista de las calles porteñas: sólo una de cada diez tiene nombre de mujer |url=https://www.clarin.com/ciudades/buenos-aires-masculino-solo-calles-lleva-nombre-mujer_0_HnelGeYa.html |access-date=10 March 2020 |website=www.clarin.com |date=27 February 2020 |language=es}}

A HOTOSM subgrant was obtained to collect field information in the Oaxaca region (Mexico) affected by the 2017 earthquakes through a journey through 20 towns, carrying out photo-mapping with Mapillary and interviewing women.{{Cite web |title=Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team {{!}} GeoChicas: Mapping the path of women after the earthquake in Oaxaca |url=https://www.hotosm.org/updates/geochicas-mapping-the-path-of-women-after-the-earthquake-in-oaxaca/ |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=www.hotosm.org|date=5 October 2018 }}

The horizontal training strategy "Training Spaces" was promoted with a series of community webinars on technology and data science training.{{Cite web |title=Lista Youtube de talleres de capacitación "Espacios Formativos" de Geochicas | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEWcsk3vGodo5r}}

In 2019, an internal working group was started, based in Mexico, on femicidal violence.{{Cite web |title=GEAmatica |url=https://geamatica.me/Feminicidio/Data_day.html |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=geamatica.me}} resulting in a rapprochement with the Geobrujas collective. For International Women's Day, a regional Editathon + Mapathon was promoted to collect data on health infrastructure for women.

A global collaborative map of the performances of "Un Violador En Tu Camino" was made{{Cite web |title=Un violador en tu camino 2019 - uMap |url=http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/un-violador-en-tu-camino-2019_394247#3/24.77/-26.02 |access-date=23 March 2020 |website=umap.openstreetmap.fr}}{{Cite web |date=17 July 2019 |title=In Latin America, Using Crowd-Sourced Maps to Improve the Lives of Women |url=https://undark.org/2019/07/17/feminist-maps-latin-america/ |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=Undark Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Chile |first=C. N. N. |title=Mapa muestra en qué lugares se ha replicado "Un violador en tu camino" en el mundo |url=https://www.cnnchile.com/pais/mapa-muestra-en-que-lugares-se-ha-replicado-un-violador-en-tu-camino-en-el-mundo_20191219/ |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=CNN Chile |language=es}}{{Cite web |date=16 December 2019 |title=Mapa muestra el impacto de "Un violador en tu camino" en el mundo |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/mapa-muestra-el-impacto-de-un-violador-en-tu-camino-en-el-mundo |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=El Universal |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=machista |first=Violencia |title=El mapa que muestra el impacto global de 'Un violador en tu camino', el himno feminista que comenzó en Chile |url=https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/muestra-pacto-global-violador-camino_0_975702683.html |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=eldiario.es |date=21 December 2019 |language=es}} inspired by the initiative of the Las Tesis collective. This proposal was extended in the mapping of mobilizations for International Women's Day in 2020.{{Cite web |title=PARO INTERNACIONAL FEMINISTA 8M2020 - uMap |url=http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/paro-internacional-feminista-8m2020_411188#0/-9/-104 |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=umap.openstreetmap.fr}}

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