Rosa Colacicco
Wikimedia and OSMF member since 2021, she is graduate in Geological Sciences and Technologies and
currently a PhD student in Geosciences at the Department of Earth Sciences and Geoenvironmental
of the University of Bari. She is involved in Earth Observation and
remote sensing, with particular attention to the monitoring of flood events. President and
co-founder of YouthMappers@Uniba, she is also part of the cOSMopolIT group.
RosaColacicco
Session
OpenStreetMap has proven to be a really interesting and valuable classroom instrument. Making students work with OSM allows them to develop the soft skills entailed in cooperation, to interact with something bigger than their class or school and to give their contribution for the sake of the collectivity. In this particular experienced, we worked on the local area of Bari with a class with 17 female students of a "Liceo Economico-Sociale", a school not particularly engaged in the STEM field. Thus, we also wanted to help them get more confident with the STEM field, which desperately need more diversity. Furthermore, focus has been on accessibility.