Diversity and Inclusion: Stories from the field

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Diversity and Inclusion: Stories from the field.

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😜 Maning Sambale
💅 Data @ Mapbox, maptivist
✍️ @maningsambale, https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/, emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com
🗣️ https://github.com/maning/talkingpoints

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The first public map we created for a local community tourism project. No Living Trees Were Harmed in the Making of This Sign. (Photo: https://pat3k.wordpress.com/my-community/

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🤓 We (development workers) need updated (map) data to support our work.

☝️ data is wrong, incomplete and outdated.

A dynamic process intentionally designed with diversity and inclusion can reduce the risk when using 👆 data.

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🗣️ Batak and Tagbanua community mapping

• Community mapping with IP communities in Palawan to support conservation plans of Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park.
  • Participatory mapping with several villages using 3D map.
  • Separate groups for men and women.

• Men - covered a larger areas of the community.

  • names of all major rivers and streams;
  • location of hunting grounds including accurate position of where they hunted the largest wild pig, snake, or eel;
  • important trees for gathering resins and wild honey;
  • approximate boundary of forest cover types.

• Women - covered a smaller area mostly within the established settlements of the tribe;

  • location of community structures such as schools, place of worship, community halls for gatherings;
  • sources of clean water (wells and springs);
  • a stream that regularly overflows limiting access to children going to school;
  • patches in the forest to gather medicinal plants and other wild vegetables;
  • patches of swidden farmlots.

🤓 Both maps shows very different priorities and perspectives but not one more important than the other.

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🗣️ Mapping with VIPs (visually impaired persons)

Initial contact

🤓 Data can come even from those you least expect it to come from.

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🗣️ Lower Shire DRR Mapping

Photo by Emir Hartato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

✅ Training sessions on open data and community mapping across different sectors.

Photo by Emir Hartato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

✅ Collected geospatial data in the field in the two most flood prone districts of Malawi (Chikhwawa and Nsanje).

Photo by Emir Hartato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

✅ Host the data on the Malawi Open Spatial Data Portal (MASDAP) and perform contingency planning using INASAFE.

Photo by Emir Hartato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

✅ Identify and support community mobilizers to ensure sustainability of the outcomes.

🙋 Does this address the most urgent concern of the community during flooding?

🐊 and hippos “visiting” villages during floods!

🤓 Even with open data, what you collect may not be what the people need.

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🗣️ Assisting local government towards disaster risk reduction

Guagua ESSC-OSMPH training field survey Photo by Eugene Alvin Villar (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Community Mapping for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Guidebook Harnessing Local Knowledge to Build Resilience

Large OSM print in Guagua's DRRM office.

🚒 story …

🤓 Independence in creating, updating and analyzing data empowers communities.

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Summary

• See ☝️

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See also

• https://github.com/maning/talkingpoints
• On getting lucky and finding this work meaningful
• https://www.slideshare.net/esambale/geoladies-20140609
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/19956
• https://www.hotosm.org/projects/malawi_flood_preparedness
• http://essc.org.ph/content/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ESSC_WBDRR_Flyer_FINAL.pdf
• https://www.gfdrr.org/en/publication/community-mapping-disaster-risk-reduction-and-management

Meta

• Talk presented to DSWD and Miriam College MEP-Org events in celebration of Women's Month (March 2019)
• https://twitter.com/MapAmorePH/status/1109030457708994560