Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals

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.

• Chapter1. Introduction.- PartI. Mapping for the Goals on Poverty, Hunger, Health, Education, Gender, Water, and Energy.- Chapter2. Open Data Addressing Challenges Associated with Informal Settlements in the Global South.- Chapter3. Leveraging Spatial Technology for Agricultural Intensification to Address Hunger in Ghana.- Chapter4. Rural Household Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in Northern Ghana.- Chapter5. Where is the Closest Health Clinic? YouthMappers map their communities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.- Chapter6. Cross-continental YouthMappers Action to Fight Schistosomiasis Transmission in Senegal.- Chapter7. Understanding YouthMappers Contributions to Building Resilient Communities in Asia.- Chapter8. Activating Education for Sustainable Development Goals through YouthMappers.- Chapter9. Seeing the World Through Maps: An Inclusive and Youth Oriented Approach.- Chapter10. Youth Engagement and the Water-Energy-Land Nexus in Costa Rica.- Chapter11. Power Grid Mapping in West Africa.- Chapter12. Mapping Access to Electricity in Urban and Rural Nigeria.- PartII. Youth Action on Work, Leadership, Innovation, Inequality, Cities, Production and Land.- Chapter13. Stories from Students Building Sustainability Through Transfer of Leadership.- Chapter14. Drones For Good: Mapping Out the SDGs Using Innovative Technology in Malawi.- Chapter15.  Assessing YouthMappers Contributions to the Generation of Open Geospatial Data in Africa.- Chapter16. Mapping Invisible and Inaccessible Areas of Brazilian Cities to Reduce Inequalities.- Chapter17. Visualizing YouthMappers Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America.- PartIII. Marking a Path to Goals on Sustainable Communities, Consumption, Climate, Oceans, Land, and Justice.- Chapter18. Youth Engagement and Participation in Mitigating Perennial Flooding in Kampala, Ugandausing Open Geospatial Data.- Chapter19. Sustainable Mobility through Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Mapping of Cycling Infrastructure: SIGenBici in Medellín, Colombia.- Chapter20. Wastesites.io: Mapping Solid Waste to Meet Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter21. Mapping for Resilience: Extreme Heat Deaths and Mobile Homes in Arizona.- Chapter22. Mapping for Women’s Evacuation Plans during Climate-induced Disasters.- Chapter23. Sustainable Development in Oceania and the Role of Mapping for Women.- Chapter24. Sustainable Coastal Communities in the Anthropocene: Lessons from Crowd-Mapping Projects in Colombia.- Chapter25. Collaborative Cartography Making Riparian Communities Visible in Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil.- Chapter26. Open Mapping with Official Cartographies in the Americas.- Chapter27. Cities of the Future Need to be Both Smart and Just: How We Think Open Mapping Can Help.- PartIV. Supporting YouthMappers to Advance the SDGs through Institutions and Partnerships.- Chapter28. Mentoring Experiences in YouthMappers Chapters.- Chapter29. The Ecosystem Where YouthMappers Live and Thrive.- Chapter30. A Free and Open Map of the Entire World: Opportunities for YouthMappers within the Unusual Partnership Model of OpenStreetMap.- Chapter31. Youth and Humanitarian Action: Open Mapping Partnerships for Disaster Response and the SDGs.- PartV. The Paths Ahead.- Chapter32. Generation 2030: The Strategic Imperative of Youth Civic and Political Engagement.- Chapter33. Reflecting on the YouthMappers Movement.