11-19, 10:00–10:30 (Pacific/Auckland), WG403
This keynote explores how feminist mappers from Geochicas around the world are transforming tech spaces by centering care, visibility, and collective learning in their communities
This keynote explores how feminist mappers from Geochicas around the world are transforming tech spaces by centering care, visibility, and collective learning in their communities. By grounding their work in community relationships, they are creating critical forms of human infrastructure that sustain open technologies.
We often measure innovation through lines of code, data layers, or new platforms, but behind every map lies something deeper: the communities that make collaboration possible. In this talk, I reflect on the power of collective organizing and how building and strengthening communities is, in itself, a form of technological innovation.
Selene Yang is a Latin American queer feminist, community organizer, mapmaker, and co-founder of Geochicas. She holds a PhD. in Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. Research Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab and Stanford University. Selene is also part of the FAIR network for feminist AI, Tierra Común for data Decolonization, and the Communication and Public Policy Research Center of the School of Communication of the UNLP. She currently works at the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Specialist in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.