12-05, 11:15–11:45 (America/Belem), Room III
HOT's humanitarian program brings together different types of actions that leverage the OpenStreetMap database and its ecosystem of tools to provide local actors, including organizations and governments, with data required in the immediacy of crisis response to natural disasters and other humanitarian situations. Data creation aims to be timely through a rapid but accurate assessment with local sectors of their most pressing needs for immediate response, intermediate response and then recovery, a phase that can last more than a year after a disaster. It is a comprehensive process co-designed with local stakeholders and collaborative with all local, regional and global mapping communities interested in this humanitarian issue invited to participate. It includes a certain type of standardized phases, but revisited and prioritized according to needs with high care to people's vulnerability and to the privacy of certain information.
This talk will exemplify the support that HOT is giving in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and in particular in the city of Porto Alegre since July 2024.
In this area of the country, the city government in particular has been helped to have a faster recovery of its educational and health social services, an indirect but concrete way to improve the welfare of the population, with geographic data and open technologies.
Céline Jacquin is a geographer from the Sorbonne and an urban planner from the University Paris-Est (France). She has been involved in research and development of urban projects on housing, daily mobility, open government, with a gender perspective and promoting voluntary geographic information. She led research strategies, governance, data analysis for decision-making, evaluation, citizen empowerment from different institutions such as the World Resource Institute, the National Council of Science and Technology and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico, and in parallel as a data activist through OpenStreetMap, Geochicas and other volunteer communities. She is currently Senior Manager at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team for Latin America.