Zainab Ramadhanis
Zainab Ramadhanis is a data spatial entry in HOT Indonesia since 2017 till present. She knows OpenStreetMap since 2016 when she was doing her internship project about change land area in Pluit Sub-District, Jakarta, Indonesia. Besides OpenStreetMap she is also into sentinel radar imagery and used it for her thesis research about the spatial correlation between land subsidence and flood in North Jakarta.
Zainab Ramadhanis and Zainab IRM-ED
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Plenty of research about behavioural differences between men and women for years ago. According to a scientific article in 2013 by Lewis, on average women may have better verbal memory and social cognition, whereas men may have better motor and spatial skills. Moreover, spatial skill is really needed for mapping, especially as a mapper volunteer in OSM that everyone can make their own map. It also has been known that male mappers more dominate OSM mapping than female mappers. Nevertheless, in some mapper communities, the number of female mappers more than male mappers, for example in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Indonesia. 19 from 30 mappers in HOT Indonesia are female, yet does it affect the performance and quality of mapping in OpenStreetMap?