2024-08-03, 14:30–15:00 (Asia/Taipei), TR211
Skill-sharing and mentorship are powerful tools to support leaders and aspirants to learn, share, and contribute to their communities. Open communities can benefit a lot in sharing open knowledge where people with years of experience and aspirants willing to learn connect and share their passion for the objectives of the community. This proposal will share years of learning and equipping today’s FOSS leaders through the Open Mapping Hub- Asia Pacific’s Open Mapping Guru Program.
The Open Mapping Hub- Asia Pacific’s Open Mapping Guru Program aims to explore and test a new model for engaging experienced mappers. We intend to develop an avenue to maximize support for skilled OpenStreetMap mappers and fully utilize their knowledge and experience in advancing the Open Mapping movement in the region..
The HOT Community Working Group initiated a Mentorship Program to provide peer to peer learning and knowledge exchange in the humanitarian and open mapping space. We built upon the knowledge and efforts of other mapping communities in conducting their mentorship program, most specifically Women+ in Geospatial (W+G) Mentorship Programme.
Community member, OSM Philippines
Advocate, Geoladies PH
Online Community Engagement Lead, HOT
Board member, OSM Foundation
Arnalie from the Philippines, username: arnalielsewhere, advocates for open data and is passionate about building inclusive spaces in the open mapping and open geo community. She was a GIS Specialist for seven years until she shifted to (online) community engagement in 2020. She works as Online Community Engagement Lead at Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team - Philippines, and as a full time mother.
She has been an Openstreetmap contributor since 2016, the same year she joined and became part of the OSM community in the Philippines. In 2018, she met her partner at the State of the Map - Milan conference, and reconvened GeoLadies Philippines, an advocacy group for community diversity, collaborative participation, and affirmative spaces especially for women, and under-represented communities in OpenStreetMap. She is a supporter and ally of various communities and networks such as Geochicas, Women+ in Geo, Open Heroines, and more.
You can learn more about her views about community in OpenStreeMap and humanitarian open mapping in the [1] Geomob Podcast Interview - Arnalie Vicario: Building inclusive spaces in OSM as well as through her [2] OSM Diaries.
[1] https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-77
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/arnalielsewhere/diary