Getting new users to contribute to collaborative mapping with OpenStreetMap sometimes can be a hard task, and even more difficult when you think about attracting new women users, especially if you are in a country like mine, Brazil.

Why do I speak of new women users? Because if you are in a country like mine, Brazil, most users are men, and this is not the reality in cartography courses, then why women in general aren’t participating, because they do not feel encouraged to participate, is that it?

In this text I will talk a little about my experience for you. Here in the group that I am part of with my college friends, we were having a hard time getting new girls to join the group and trying to understand this reality we met the group Geochicas OSM, a group of Latin America, a collective that came up with the idea of closing the gender gap among those who participate in the collaborative mapping project OpenStreetMap (OSM).

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