Speaker: Zainab Ramadhanis
Resources:
- some research on diversity
- also see the Diversity and Inclusion working group
Questions
- [DONE] How can you measure the men and (How do you know if osm
contributors are men or women?)
- How do you identify the sex of mappers in your analysis when we
tend to use either nicknames or gender neutral short names. For
example Chris, is that Christopher or Christine. Gender neutral
names are commonly used normal life outside of OSM
- [DONE] What is the percentage of paid mappers in terms of
contribution and what is their rentention once project is done? -
Trudy
- How can we use the research to for community retention?
- So is the imbalance “bad and there should be a effort to correct
it”, or, “accept it, their brains are different”?
- How can we better measure non-technolgy contributions to OSM? -
heather
- [DONE] Do you think there is a danger that mappers avoid telling
their gender (or setting a name that identifies their gender)
because there are thoughts that men and women map differently? –
Gregory
- [DONE] Are there more differences between individual men and
between individual women than an average man and an average woman?
- Do you first see the edit types and then go ahead to ping the users
to certify if the gender you identified is correct?
- [DONE] Was there any difference in men and women’s access to
technology and training?
- this was not formally asked in the survey
- [DONE] What are your suggestion for increasing the contribution of
woman in mapping activity? Would it be make the mapathon specific to
their needs? Or maybe make the tags/presets to specific to women?
- Or make mapping features particularly relevant to women/and
clearly demonstrate the impact of mapping?
- [DONE] How do you compute smoothness? It is something qualitative
or some metrics?
- Which part the world your research covers? All the world or only
some country?
- Since you’re indonesian, maybe is that correct why you only split
gender into two categories ? In my understanding Indonesia
recognizes 5. some of researchers using common surveys. not sure if
she consider that one.
15. [DONE] Is this research being published any where?
Comments
- this reminds me of the study presented at SOTM in Brussels a few
years ago. we do need to see how we can do more data analysis and
connect it to community development/engagement, technology, and /or
policy shifts/ - heather
- Love the work that has been put in to add subtitles to the talk too
:) - Jinal
- Surely there are many transgender
mappers here on OSM too.
- Yes they will be categorized into either male or female when
making statistics.
- OK, so we need a separate study.
- So this study should differentiate cisgender vs.
transgender...
- they are those who aren’t yet sure of their gender+1 - Trudy
- It is difficult to identify the sex of most mappers as we tend to
use either nicknames or gender neutral short names. For example
Chris, is that Christopher or Christine
-
From previous talk we know many must be paid mappers...
- OSM should introduce gender on their signup. form - first step to
diversity +1 - Trudy
- Better be more than two…
- and a prefer not to say option
- If anyone is interested in helping Crowd2map do more research into
this. A previous survey is here
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/search?q=crowd2map%20suvey (we
have more recent data to analyse)
- The Google form you mentioned sounds so old fashioned with only
[x]male, and [x]female, two boxes.
- There was an option to self identify or not say, but no one
selected it
- You should put this topic on your future study. Maybe you wanna do a
further study like master or doctoral degree. OSM has evolved
nowadays, becomes more and more detailed and profound