Alma Rangel
Alma Rangel is the executive director of Codeando México, an open community-based organization that collaborates with people (technologists, activists, journalists, public officers) who are interested in using technology as a strategic tool in solving public problems. She has coordinated +30 projects of civic tech and open data with NGOs and governments.
Sessions
Codeando Mexico is a Mexican non-profit organization, with 11 years of experience, that works with technology and data for the public good. Our goal is to build better societies by building and contributing to sustainable and useful tech / data projects.
We strongly believe in participatory, community-led projects that leverage tech and data to find solutions for our societies’ most pressing issues. We have spent the last decade building sustainable digital tools, opening up our tech and data, collaborating with other teams and contributing to amazing open-source projects.
As part of our work, we act as technical partners to communities that require assistance. We are aware that the communities themselves are the experts in the problems we are trying to solve. To do this, we mostly take advantage of great open-source digital tools that are already available.
For this talk, we would like to present three projects, talk about the lessons learned and provide insights on how to better collaborate between communities. In these collaborations we face similar challenges: How to integrate different skill levels to crowdmapping projects? How to structure participation to ensure data quality? How to help our partners better communicate and amplify the job they are undertaking? How to find a common language? How to create better relationships between tech, data, and problem-focused communities?
Throughout the presentation we will talk about 3 projects:
8M Map - Collaboration to improve the workflow from mapping to visualization of the activities around the globe for the 8M Geochicas International Women's Day 2024.
Mapea tu Cuadra (map your block) - A collaboration with URBE, a local collective of urbanists, to map security and micro mobility infrastructure in their neighborhoods.
EcoZonas - Ongoing collaboration with WRI and the Wuppertal Institute to help neighborhoods map and identify climate disaster risks in their communities.
We will showcase the technologies and lessons learned, as well as useful strategies to build better collaborations.