Initiating participatory open data in public policies w/ local community
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Hi everyone, nice to see you all today. So, just wanted to first present myself. I'm Shazman Mamji, and my colleague, Felipe Prit. We both work for the Humanitarian Open Street Map team. And today, we wanted to present you a little bit about a project
00:23
on which we've been working on, called Open City in Latin America and the Caribbean. And most especially, we want to talk about more how to initiate participatory open data in public policies involving local communities in the island of Central Asia.
00:45
Okay, so first Open City is what it is. It's a methodology that aims to create data for risk management in specific localities. But the specificity of this methodology is really to engage the active participation
01:02
of local communities and really of open mapping communities as well. So what we want to do is really to generate missing open data for public policies and consolidate long-term capacities because the flow of information, the flow of data that comes into Open Street Map then can be maintained.
01:25
So the Open City methodology has been implemented so far in many countries, several cities, mostly in Africa and in Southeast Asia. And it's only starting now in Latin America and the Caribbean.
01:41
So with this pilot of Open City, which we're working on, it's implemented in five different countries, in St. Lucia, in Jamaica, in Dominica, and then in Latin America for Mexico and Guatemala. So it all ties up together for the event of Open Street Map because since 2021
02:02
we've been trying to develop new activities in Latin America and in the Caribbean in view of the creation of an open mapping hub in this region. So we kind of want to use the project to outline, to show that we can create collaboration
02:20
with very long-term potential and create that collaboration with open mapping communities in the region and to really grow that collaboration with the different partners and especially with the risk prevention and sustainable development partners in that region.
02:42
And what we want to be doing is kind of matching the opportunities that we see with the open mapping communities and the needs of the local governments as well as the local communities. The thing is, in Latin America,
03:00
there is a lot of OSM communities. Some are larger and some are smaller, but in the Caribbean especially, the OSM communities are mostly small and in some places non-existent. So that's where we want to put a lot of the work
03:23
that we do with OpenCT is really fostering those OSM communities. So I'm sure you want to hear more about the project, so I'll just give the talk to Philippe, who is the project manager for OpenCT
03:41
in San Lucia, Dominica, and Jamaica. Thank you very much. As mentioned, I'm project manager for the Caribbean section, and that's mainly for San Lucia, Dominica, and Jamaica.
04:02
But the idea of OpenCT is really to create it as a model for the rest of the Caribbean. San Lucia is the first one starting off, and we're presenting San Lucia mainly because it's really a good average of what is represented in the Caribbean. Just out of simplicity,
04:22
I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the Caribbean. I am a native of San Lucia. But you can see San Lucia is very small, probably smaller than female county where we are here. The population is only about 180-plus thousand people, 240 square miles.
04:43
And just generally, I guess it's about 14 degrees north, so that's in the tropics. We refer to it as Eastern Caribbean, which is that smaller chain of islands on the outer edge. And just history-wise, we speak English with a French influence, and we just got independence in 1979.
05:03
And essentially, it's a good balance between some of the other Caribbean islands. Barbados, which you might be heard of, San Lucia is a little bit bigger than Barbados, but smaller than Jamaica. And our population is kind of like mid-range. So in this sense, it's a good idea of using it as, like, a pilot template here.
05:21
Now for the nastiest stuff. The islands really are, a colleague of mine likes to call it, like, a bowling alley for hurricanes. I'm sure if you're familiar with Florida and the hurricanes, it normally actually sweeps through that chain of islands and then sweeps up.
05:40
So it really is like a layer-lighting time when hurricanes come through, and it's like, which island is it going to hit? Most recently, San Lucia had Hurricane Tomas in 2010, and this picture here on the side is a scour from a landslide that occurred during that hurricane.
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It was more of a rain event, and there was also on there, and when the pill went with it, I don't think they ever found the housing. But we've had numerous events Christmas trough was just a low-level trough, and it was just an event that just dumped rain on San Lucia on Christmas Eve for two days straight.
06:22
It was not expected, and caused a lot of infrastructure damage. But not only that, we're sitting right on the edge of the Caribbean plate. Most of these islands actually have volcanoes on them. San Lucia is a driving volcano. As a collapse crater, you can actually drive right through it. But needless to say, we have earthquakes, tremors all the time.
06:40
And of course, because of the terrain, as you can see, these landslides are very prevalent, and flooding in the low-lying areas. But our approach with this is two-prong. We look at natural disasters, as well as vulnerable communities, persons living in vulnerable areas, persons who are more susceptible to losing their livelihoods,
07:02
losing their lives when something happens. Two of the main areas are congestion, people living just very, very close to each other. As you can see in the middle picture, if a fire starts right there, it's going to be very, very challenging for emergency personnel to deal with.
07:20
And just general health concerns of persons living very tightly together, sometimes you don't know which structures are which. One anecdote is that there's an area in San Lucia that we're actually going to do some mapping on. It is built around what are called a graveyard, because they moved most of the important parts,
07:43
and shifted it off-site to another cemetery, and the tombstones are still remaining, and people are living around these tombstones. If you're familiar with mapping, and you look at an aerial image, sometimes you may not be able to tell if it's a house or a tombstone or a dark house,
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and some of these areas are outside kitchens still, outside bathrooms. So having some of our mapping done with local knowledge, local insight, they'll be able to tell where some of these areas are and what can be done about them, because some of the general mapping just doesn't really capture it from a global perspective. And then there's a lot of unplanned developments,
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unsafe structures, some houses are flat, some are still, so when flooding happens, what happens with them, girders and gullies passing around, a lot of uncharted footpaths, how emergency personnel get to them. It's just a lot of challenges, and one of our focuses is in congested areas, for these vulnerable communities.
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So the approach is really to get into some of the stakeholders and see how we can manage and create this culture
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and awareness for open mapping in the region. When we say stakeholders, generally we think of probably data users and data providers. For this presentation, I like to look at it more as data authorities
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and data prodigies, in the sense that sometimes the data authorities don't necessarily have all the data, the authority on the data, but they don't collect the data. We had some aerial images collected last in 2007, and they're only now updating them. That's way over 10 years.
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There's drone technology now. There's reasons why this stuff should be more updated. So examples of the National Emergency Management Corporation, the statistics office, these agencies are really just having the data,
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but they don't really give the currency. The data prodigies are the ones that are going to be the youth committees, the Red Cross, the community leaders, so the idea is to really incorporate them, get them to do open mapping, and then cycle that information on there so then when the data authorities, which we're going to sensitize, start using this information,
10:21
they're going to make it more robust, and then it's going to cycle back to the data prodigies and then create this new effect of how we use data and more the acceptance of the data. We're focusing on just two main areas, the needs of the emergency management agency
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and the statistics agency. The emergency management agency has a mandate for doing the life cycle of disaster management, which is collecting data anywhere from mitigation to recovery, and then they have a relationship already with the youth committee, with the Red Cross,
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so the synergy is met there, so it's kind of tied in already. The Central Statistics Authority, they have to do Census 2020. Census 2020 hasn't happened yet since COVID struck, so we're actually using that buffer time to give them more information, let their statisticians go out and collect data more efficiently so they can get all of this data needed.
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So generally, we have three problems that we're going to focus on. Basically, adding the priority areas to the open street map. We're going to create sustainable communities, and this is actually the main pillar, creating communities that are a culture of mapping and growing this,
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so even beyond the life cycle of the project, more people are getting into it. As I said, the OSM committee is very low in the Caribbean, so the idea is to do that, and lastly, do training, train the trainers, get people to be involved. When the project goes on, people still have the knowledge base down pat.
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The local influenza team, which is for Saint Lucia, has already started, and they've done, stakeholder engagement, done several meetings with various agencies within the local and district level, and right now, they're at a stage of getting MOUs to really solidify what's been going on with the project.
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Public awareness, where they're doing an official launch, they have a Facebook page, and then after that, we're going to do a YouTube channel, state of the map presentation, check mark, and there's also a mapathon that's going to be happening later with Steven Johnson, who's here,
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and then more training. We had one training session. It went very well with the short session. We already had a small group in two hours with about 3,000 edits, and these were newbies, so the next activity is to keep these sessions going. We could have a total of six sessions,
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and the next two sessions are already booked up because we got a good response on that first session. So I added these pictures to not seem like St. Lucia and the Caribbean is all doomed. I'm sure you all do that. But I hope you got a little bit more insight,
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and I welcome any of your questions.