OSM Awards as a thermometer on diversity in the mapping community
SeleneYang 于 2018年三月 6日 以 English 发布The call for nominations for the OSM Awards de 2018 is now open it the winners will be presented during the SOTM en Milano, Italy at the end of July.
While this is a fairly new initiative to celebrate the achievements of people, groups and projects that support OpenStreetMap, I couldn’t but notice the fact that in this two years, in all categories the percentage of women nominations is really inferior than men nominations.
This are the initial categories (Each category holds 5 nominatios):
- Core Systems Award
- Innovation Award
- Influential Writing Award
- Greatness in Mapping Award
- Expanding the Community Award
- Ulf Möller Memorial Award
For the [OpenStreetMap Awards 2016] (osm.wiki/OpenStreetMap_Awards/2016), out of 30 nominations, only 3 women were nominated (none for the Greatness in Mapping Award); for the [OpenStreetMap Awards 2017] (osm.wiki/OpenStreetMap_Awards/2017), where there were more awards (added: Improving the Latin America Award, Improving the Africa Award, Improving the Asia Award ) only 5 women were nominated.
Now, regarding to the winners, in 2016, [no women] (https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/09/26/we-have-our-winners/) won an award; in 2017, [Geochicas] (https://twitter.com/Srta_Peperina/status/898868046617427969) were the only women who won an award. (A disclaimer about this, groups where there was participation of women did win, however no award - apart from ours - was obtained by a woman or a group led or conformed only by women).
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