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<div>Dec 10, 2020, 20:58 by talk@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Underrepresentation of women and gender minorities, racial<br></div><div>underrepresentation, geographic underrepresentation, these are all<br></div><div>symptoms. If OSM did not systematically exclude these groups, these<br></div><div>groups would not be underrepresented.<br></div></blockquote><div>It is not so simple.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Problem may be outside OSM.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(1)<br></div><div>Significant part of geographic underrepresentation<br></div><div>is caused by simple fact that in many places people<br></div><div>have simply no time for such hobby and certainly no <br></div><div>time and resources for mailing list discussions<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/water/">https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/water/</a><br></div><div>"2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water"<br></div><div>- in such situations you are pretty unlikely to become <br></div><div>involved in OSM<br></div><div><br></div><div>Malaria alone kills 400 000 people every year,<br></div><div>basically all of that is preventable or treatable<br></div><div>(hopefully it is OK to plug here<br></div><div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Malaria_Foundation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Malaria_Foundation</a> )<br></div><div><br></div><div>(2)<br></div><div>OSM editing is illegal in China<br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If someone is going to start going against Chinese <br></div><div>government it is unlikely that they select mapping in OSM<br></div><div>as the top priority or even as a symbolic protest.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(3)<br></div><div>If girls are from young age discouraged from being interested in<br></div><div>maps/geography/volunteering/etc then it is going to help<br></div><div>in lower participation in projects for people interested in maps.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And for example "women are likely to be confused by maps"<br></div><div>stereotype is one that I encountered and it is of a kind that<br></div><div>is self-perpetuating.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(4)<br></div><div>Mappers from North Korea are underrepresented,<br></div><div>and in very large part it is not fault of OSM community.<br></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------<br></div><div><br></div><div>We can try to limit damage and encourage participation,<br></div><div>but there are external factors that we will not overcome<br></div><div>(though hopefully we can take part in reducing them).<br></div><div><br></div><div>But even with OSM being 100% ideal many of mentioned<br></div><div>groups would be still underrepresented.<br></div> </body>
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