Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals
Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship
Patricia Solís0,
Marcela Zeballos1
Patricia Solís
School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
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Marcela Zeballos
Center for Geospatial Technology College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
Offers the voices of students or recent graduates in countries where YouthMappers is active
Covers topics ranging from water, agriculture, food, to waste, education, gender, and disasters
Addresses topics at various scales of perspective, from individual/local city level to national and global scopes
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Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Pages i-xxiii
Patricia Solís, Marcela Zeballos
Pages 1-9Open Access
Mapping for the Goals on Poverty, Hunger, Health, Education, Gender, Water, and Energy
Open Data Addressing Challenges Associated with Informal Settlements in the Global South
Ernest Ruzindana, Federica Gaspari, Erneste Ntakobangize, Chiara Ponti, Carlo Andrea Biraghi, Candan Eylül Kilsedar et al.
Pages 13-27Open Access
Leveraging Spatial Technology for Agricultural Intensification to Address Hunger in Ghana
Prince Kwame Odame, Ebenezer Nana Kwaku Boateng
Rural Household Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in Northern Ghana
Kwaku Antwi, Conrad Lyford, Patricia Solís
Where Is the Closest Health Clinic? YouthMappers Map Their Communities Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Adele Birkenes, Siennah Yang, Benjamin Bachman, Stephanie Ingraldi, Ibrahima Sory Diallo
Cross-Continental YouthMappers Action to Fight Schistosomiasis Transmission in Senegal
Michael Montani, Fabio Cattaneo, Amadou Lamine Tourè, Ibrahima Sory Diallo, Lorenzo Mari, Renato Casagrandi
Understanding YouthMappers' Contributions to Building Resilient Communities in Asia
Feye Andal, Manjurul Islam, Ataur Rahman Shaheen, Jennings Anderson
Activating Education for Sustainable Development Goals Through YouthMappers
Maliha Binte Mohiuddin, Michael Jabot
Seeing the World Through Maps: An Inclusive and Youth-Oriented Approach
Shraddha Sharma, Courtney Clark, Sandhya Dhakal, Saugat Nepal
Pages 101-112Open Access
Youth Engagement and the Water–Energy–Land Nexus in Costa Rica
Jasson Mora-Mussio
Power Grid Mapping in West Africa
Tommy G. D. Charles
Mapping Access to Electricity in Urban and Rural Nigeria
Emmanuel Jolaiya, Mercy Akintola, Opeyemi Nafiu
Youth Action on Work, Leadership, Innovation, Inequality, Cities, Production and Land
Stories from Students Building Sustainability Through Transfer of Leadership
Saurav Gautam, K. C. Aman, Rabin Ojha, Gaurav Parajuli
Drones for Good: Mapping Out the SDGs Using Innovative Technology in Malawi
Ndapile Mkuwu, Alexander D. C. Mtambo, Zola Manyungwa
Assessing YouthMappers Contributions to the Generation of Open Geospatial Data in Africa
Ebenezer N. K. Boateng, Zola Manyungwa, Jennings Anderson
Mapping Invisible and Inaccessible Areas of Brazilian Cities to Reduce Inequalities
Elias Nasr Naim Elias, Everton Bortolini, Jaqueline Alves Pisetta, Kauê de Moraes Vestena, Maurielle Felix da Silva, Nathan Damas et al.
Visualizing YouthMappers' Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America
Nayreth Walachosky, Cristina Gómez, Karen Martínez, Marianne Amaya, Maritza Rodríguez, Mariela Centeno et al.
This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world's young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every region of the world who have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers movement share their perspectives and knowledge in an accessible and peer-friendly format. YouthMappers are university students who create and use open mapping for development and humanitarian purposes. Their work leverages digital innovations - both geospatial platforms and communications technologies - to answer the call for leadership to address sustainability challenges.
The book conveys a sense of robust knowledge emerging from formal studies or informal academic experiences - in the first-person voices of students and recent graduates who are at the forefront of creating a new map of the world. YouthMappers use OpenStreetMap as the foundational sharing mechanism for creating data together. Authors impart the way they are learning about themselves, about each other, about the world. They are developing technology skills, and simultaneously teaching the rest of the world about the potential contributions of a highly connected generation of emerging world leaders for the SDGs. The book is timely, in that it captures a pivotal moment in the trajectory of the YouthMappers movement's ability to share emerging expertise, and one that coincides with a pivotal moment in the geopolitical history of planet earth whose inhabitants need to hear from them.
Most volumes that cover the topic of sustainability in terms of youth development are written by non-youth authors. Moreover, most are written by non-majoritarian, entrenched academic scholars. This book instead puts forward the diverse voices of students and recent graduates in countries where YouthMappers works, all over the world. Authors cover topics that range from water, agriculture, food, to waste, education, gender, climate action and disasters from their own eyes in working with data, mapping, and humanitarian action, often working across national boundaries and across continents. To inspire readers with their insights, the chapters are mapped to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ways that connect a youth agenda to a global agenda.
With a preface written by Carrie Stokes, Chief Geographer and GeoCenter Director, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
This is an open access book.
Open spatial data
Patricia Solís, PhD, is Executive Director of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at Arizona State University, a campus-wide effort to link multi-sector community needs with research innovations in building community resilience. She is Associate Research Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. As designer, Co-Founder and Director of YouthMappers, she helped spark a rapidly-growing consortium of student-led chapters on more than 300 university campuses in 65+ countries who create and use open spatial data for humanitarian and development needs. Previously, she was Co-Director of the Center for Geospatial Technology at Texas Tech University and Research Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Geosciences and affiliated with the TTU Climate Science Center. She served as Deputy Director and Director of Research at the American Association of Geographers and is a current National Councillor. Dr. Solís focuses her research on applications of open geospatial technologies to address socially relevant challenges, from water resource conflict to climate change induced hazards to broadening participation in higher education. Her creative leadership has resulted in the development of collaborative and participatory methodologies, youth-engaged peer exchanges, and institutionalization of multi-sector partnerships centered on using digital geographic technologies for public value. Her efforts have been recognized by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and with honors from geographic disciplinary societies. She currently serves as the President of the PanAmerican Institute for Geography and History of the Organization of American States, the first woman elected to this scientific diplomacy position. Dr. Solís received a BS in Physics, BA in German, and MA in Geography from Kansas State University and earned her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Iowa where she was a Presidential Fellow.
Marcela Zeballos is Research Associate in the Center for Geospatial Technology at Texas Tech University, and is the Managing Director of YouthMappers, a global community of university students and faculty who are filling crucial geospatial data gaps in collaboration with local organizations and agencies to increase visibility of their needs and resources. Her work centers on creating inclusive spaces for student participation and executing intentional programming aimed at balancing privilege dynamics to expand youth contributions. She values connecting with people and building community. Since 2012 she has worked on U.S. federally-funded initiatives in support of sustainability, education, and youth leadership impacting beneficiaries worldwide. In 2019, she became a voting member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Ms. Zeballos received a BA in Geography and a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University.
Book Title: Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals
Book Subtitle: Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship
Editors: Patricia Solís, Marcela Zeballos
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05182-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05181-4Published: 29 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05184-5Published: 29 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05182-1Published: 28 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Number of Pages: XXIII, 382
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 251 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, Digital Humanities, Open Source, Sustainability, Cartography