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Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals - Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals - Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world's
young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial
technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every
region of the world who have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers
movement share their perspectives and knowledge in an accessible
and peer-friendly format. YouthMappers are university students who
create and use open mapping for development and humanitarian
purposes. Their work leverages digital innovations - both
geospatial platforms and communications technologies - to answer
the call for leadership to address sustainability challenges. The
book conveys a sense of robust knowledge emerging from formal
studies or informal academic experiences - in the first-person
voices of students and recent graduates who are at the forefront of
creating a new map of the world. YouthMappers use OpenStreetMap as
the foundational sharing mechanism for creating data together.
Authors impart the way they are learning about themselves, about
each other, about the world. They are developing technology skills,
and simultaneously teaching the rest of the world about the
potential contributions of a highly connected generation of
emerging world leaders for the SDGs. The book is timely, in that it
captures a pivotal moment in the trajectory of the YouthMappers
movement's ability to share emerging expertise, and one that
coincides with a pivotal moment in the geopolitical history of
planet earth whose inhabitants need to hear from them. Most volumes
that cover the topic of sustainability in terms of youth
development are written by non-youth authors. Moreover, most are
written by non-majoritarian, entrenched academic scholars. This
book instead puts forward the diverse voices of students and recent
graduates in countries where YouthMappers works, all over the
world. Authors cover topics that range from water, agriculture,
food, to waste, education, gender, climate action and disasters
from their own eyes in working with data, mapping, and humanitarian
action, often working across national boundaries and across
continents. To inspire readers with their insights, the chapters
are mapped to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) in ways that connect a youth agenda to a global agenda. With
a preface written by Carrie Stokes, Chief Geographer and GeoCenter
Director, United States Agency for International Development
(USAID). This is an open access book.
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