[Osmf-talk] HOTOSM recognition by the President of Mexico

Robert Banick rbanick at gmail.com
Fri May 20 03:15:24 UTC 2016


This is super fantastic Miriam and all, congratulations!

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:24 AM Mapa Nauta <mapanauta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hola Rafael:
> ahhh you are the best!! I was thinking I will have the time for doing the
> transcripts until 2017  (just kidding!) Re. the Import project for Mexico I
> just wrote a Blog, please find it here http://bit.ly/importproject. Also
> it will be in WeeklyOSM. Please find the full transcription below from
> Rafael with the two small parts that were missing completed.
>
> Hi Oleksiy,
>
>
>
> You are correct I start speaking a bit later but I thought it was very
> important to watch the previous minutes because other speaker mentioned
> OpenData and then the President mentioned he knew someone who supported the
> efforts for mapping Hurracaine Patricia was in the audience ;)
>
>
>
> SPANISH
> -----------------
>
> 1:08:33
>
> Enrique Peña Nieto:
>
> Quisiera sobre esto que ha comentado Alejandro a propósito de los datos
> abiertos, que se puede utilizar toda la información que genera el gobierno,
> y que varios de ustedes puedan desarrollar distintas aplicaciones o
> utilizarlas para interés particular... No sé si está aquí, me dijeron que
> venía alguien que había desarrollado o había apoyado este alertamiento que
> hubo con el huracán Patricia el año pasado... Acá! Desarrolló precisamente
> a través de datos abiertos lograron apoyar y dar información a quienes
> estaban en las zonas de riesgo. Yo solamente quiero agradecer aquí porque
> es un ejemplo que ilustra mucho lo que se puede lograr y creo que además
> usan información abierta.
>
> Míriam González:
>
> Tocando al punto del huracán Patricia... Sí, Míriam González, bueno... me
> presento también. Éste... trabajo para una compañía de Silicon Valley que
> se llama Telenav, pionera en la navegación GPS. También soy emprendedora y
> también soy [parte del] "humanitarian digital network". Entonces, estamos
> colaborando con varias cosas al mismo tiempo.
> Dentro del humanitarian OpenStreetMap, que es donde colaboro ahorita para
> cuestiones como puede ser el huracán Patricia vimos una oportunidad muy
> buena... gracias también a Ania y a Alejandra para poder usar la
> información que estaba ya liberada del INEGI, y gracias también a eso
> hicimos una mejora del mapa libre de México através también de todo lo que
> se liberó. Lo que hemos encontrado -y lo comento también como usuaria- es
> que hay todavía detalles en la información, todavía se puede mejorar más,
> todavía se puede limpiar más. Y eso también me gustaría comentarlo con Ania
> y también con Alejandra para de alguna forma ver cómo podemos también ser
> unos inspectores de calidad de la información que se libera para que no
> nada más se suba y se suba y se suba y digamos... México es uno de los
> primeros y de los mejores a nivel cantidad, queremos también calidad de la
> información abierta para también poder tomar decisiones y también poder
> saber dónde mandar a una persona, a una herida, a un resguardo, poder
> también volar a una persona que tenga alguna cuestión también, un terremoto
> como el de Ecuador, que también se ha liberado también información, todo
> esto para poder apoyar a al CENAPRED (Centro Nacional de Prevención de
> Desastres) y también apoyar a más mexicanos para que sean menos tocados por
> desastres.
>
> Enrique Peña Nieto:
>
> Muchas gracias. Pero es cierto,  todavía hay mucho por hacer pero sin
> embargo hay que reconocer que México es de los países, creo que el primero
> de América Latina que logra tener una información abierta que está
> permitiendo pues esta aplicación, la de que varios más y muchos que nos
> están quizá viendo a través de Internet puedan utilizar para proyectos a
> desarrollar de forma propia.
>
> Míriam González:
>
> Así es. Muchas gracias por eso, por el tiempo, y creo que es muy
> importante que hagamos algo en conjunto también con sociedad civil para
> poder ir mejorando cada vez más los datos que están liberados.
>
>
>
> Enrique Peña Nieto:
>
> Muchas gracias.
>
> 1:11:15
>
> ----------
>
> ENGLISH
> -----------
>
> 1:08:33
>
> Enrique Peña Nieto:
>
> I'd like to know about what Alejandro has just talked about, about open
> data, that you can use all the information that is provided by the
> government, with which some of you can develop different applications or
> use them for your personal interest... I don't know if she is here, I've
> been told somebody has come who has developed or supported this alert that
> we had for the Patricia hurricane last year... There she is! It was
> developed in fact with open data and information, with which you could
> support and give information to those that where deployed in the risk
> areas. I just would like now to thank you, because it's an example that
> ilustrates very well what we can achieve, and I think that you also use
> open information.
>
> Míriam González:
>
> About the hurricane Patricia... Yes, Míriam González, well... I also
> introduce myself. I work for a Silicon Valley company called Telenav,
> pioneer in GPS navigation. I am also an enterpreneur and also [part of]
> "humanitarian digital network". We are collaborating with several things at
> the same time. Respect to humanitarian OpenStreetMap, that is where I
> collaborate right now for projects like the Patricia hurricane, we've seen
> one very good opportunity... thank you also to Ania and Alejandra for
> letting us use the information that was already released from the INEGI,
> and also thank to that we could improve the free map of Mexico using again
> all data that was publicly released. What we found -and I comment that also
> as a user- is that there are still details (inaccuracy) in the information,
> that can still be improved, it can still be cleaned further. And I also
> would like to comment that with Ania and also with Alejandra for, in a way,
> see how we can become a Q&A inspectors of the information that is released,
> so information is not only uploaded, and uploaded, and uploaded and...
> Mexico is one of the first and best about quantity [of released open data].
> We would like quality Open Data too to be able to take decisions, and also
> where we need to send one person, one injured person, to a shelter, send by
> plane also one person in need, an earthquake like that of Ecuador, where
> information has been publicly released too, all this to support the
> CENAPRED (National Center to prevent National Disasters)  and also suport
> more mexicans so they aren't harmed by disasters.
>
>
>
> Enrique Peña Nieto:
>
> Thank you very much. But it is true... I think that there is still a lot
> to do, but nevertheless we have to recognize that Mexico is among the
> countries, I think the first of Latin America, that has the data open that
> allows this use, that also some others and many people that may be watching
> us through the Internet, may use this info for projects on their own.
>
> Míriam González:
>
> That's right. Thank you very much for that, for the time, and I think it
> would be also important that we join efforts with the civil society, so we
> can keep improving the data that have been released.
>
>
>
> Enrique Peña Nieto:
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> 1:11:15
>
> ----------------
>
> Miriam
>
> @mapanauta
>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Miriam:
>>
>> It's really nice to see that OSM community efforts and mapping go so
>> high. I am happy to see Mexico in such a good track, and I also agree it is
>> one of the countries in the world giving best example of opening all
>> government generated data - and proud also to have contributed my time to
>> some imports there ;) -.
>>
>> I've try to transcript all you short talk with Enrique Peña Nieto. There
>> are just two moments I don't understand. Here is my trasncription and
>> attempt to translate (improvable!):
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> Cheers, and keep the good work!!
>>
>> Rafael.
>>
>> On 19/05/16 05:36, Mapa Nauta wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings to all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday was Internet Day 2016 and the office of the President of
>>> Mexico invited 50 people involved in Tech, OpenData, Innovation among
>>> other similar subjects to participate in a discussion about the future
>>> of Mexico, I had the chance to be among those 50 people called Digital
>>> Leaders. I was a bit skeptical at the beginning because I never
>>> participated in such events but I thought it was a good opportunity to
>>> take advantage of the dialogue. After raising my hand in several
>>> ocassions and thinking I was not able to participate due to the lack of
>>> time,  the President of Mexico did a comment related to Open Data and
>>> Hurricaine Patricia in the one I had the chance to help to coordinate
>>> with Rodolfo Wilhelmy and more than 500 people participated in the
>>> mapping. The President thanked for those efforts and I emphasize the
>>> need of  Quality Open Data and provide more impulse to Open Mapping.
>>>
>>> You can find the video here, my participation is in the minute 1:08:35
>>> (sorry there is no translation and also in Spanish i speak to fast :)  )
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/7EtkQS3A420?t=4113
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Miriam
>>> @Mapanauta
>>>
>>>
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