Digital humanitarians for the Sustainable Development Goals: YouthMappers as a hybrid movement

Solís, Patricia; Rajagopalan, Sushil; Villa, Lily; Mohiuddin, Maliha Binte; Boateng, Ebenezer N. K.; Nakacwa, Stellamaris Wavamunno; Valencia, María Fernanda Peña

doi:10.1080/03098265.2020.1849067

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“…Instead of the standardized, and frankly boringly uniform Massive Open Online Courses dreamt by business-oriented minds, a framework such as GeoPyTeR represents an invaluable opportunity to create vibrant, locally relevant, and lively teaching communities based on the principles of openness. The special issue closes with a flourish with the contribution of Solís et al (2020aSolís et al ( , 2020b. As other papers in the issue recount, open geospatial data and tools such as those developed in Python and `R` have been essential to increase openness in research and to create exciting opportunities to improve teaching practice as well.…”

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Open spatial sciences: an introduction

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“…Participating groups can apply for grants, research fellowships, and other benefits. Studies by Solís et al [16,18] explain how YouthMappers contribute to various SDGs. This is described in the Introduction.…”

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“…Another work by Solís et al [18] provides a global survey of 205 students participating in the YouthMappers initiative, focusing on how they understand the significance of their work for SDGs. They detected differences by gender and world region.…”

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“…This study suggests that humanitarian mapping can help motivate students to be socially responsible. Leveraging student-led movements on connected campuses offers one possible way of creating a sense of global citizenship, a critical component in achieving SDGs [18].…”

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“…Such a step is crucial for synergy between both stakeholder groups [63]. The participation of local contributors from the mapped countries adds value to the remote action, as described by Solís et al [16,18] regarding the case study of Kathmandu Living Labs. It allows for the creation of both local and remote open data.…”

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Humanitarian Mapping as a Contribution to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Research into the Motivation of Volunteers and the Ideal Setting of Mapathons

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Missing Maps is a humanitarian mapping project that maps vulnerable places in the developing world. Its outcomes are used to target aid in affected areas and to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals. A mapathon is an event in which a group of volunteers maps a defined location. The presented communication answers the following questions: What is the motivation of different contributors in the Missing Maps community in Czechia and Slovakia? How can a mapathon be set up to attract as many participants as possible? How exactly can the contributors to humanitarian mapping subjectively evaluate their contribution so far? A questionnaire about the motivation of contributors and the analysis of statistics from eighteen public mapathons in Brno (Czechia) were used as the primary research methods. The analysis of motivation found six strong motivators. Half of them concern altruism and half of them relate to the importance of the OpenStreetMap project and the mapping community. Analysis of the characteristics of 18 mapathons found that the month of the mapathon had a significant influence on the number of attendants. Statistical analysis confirmed a significant correlation between the number of edits and participants’ self-assessment. This means that humanitarian mappers evaluate their overall contribution very realistically. Analyses with an identical scope are planned for future years.

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In an era of global challenges – from climate change to economic unrest to social disruption to pandemics – the need to hear from voices of the next generation of leaders is clear. The time to listen to them is now. The purpose of this book is to assemble, organize, and amplify the knowledge and experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working locally and collectively to use scientific results, geospatial technologies, and multi-national collaboration to address some of the most pressing issues facing their local communities and global society. From every region of the world, students have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers movement, to study such problems by creating and using open data that has a spatial component. The issues they are addressing with these common tools and methods range across the entire scope of topics known as the Sustainable Development Goals, articulated globally through the United Nations. Not only do YouthMappers create new knowledge and bring unique perspectives and experiences, but they are also proposing and taking action based upon what they see and what they know from the map and from each other.

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Digital humanitarians for the Sustainable Development Goals: YouthMappers as a hybrid movement

Cited by 11 publications

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Open spatial sciences: an introduction

Open spatial sciences: an introduction

Humanitarian Mapping as a Contribution to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Research into the Motivation of Volunteers and the Ideal Setting of Mapathons

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