In 2025 I am focusing my efforts on strengthening the social fabric by creating an online citizen community in my city, Valladolid (Spain).
In just three months, we have gone from an idea to a platform with more than 1500 members.
Open web, software libre, privacidad y más
In 2025 I am focusing my efforts on strengthening the social fabric by creating an online citizen community in my city, Valladolid (Spain).
In just three months, we have gone from an idea to a platform with more than 1500 members.
After two decades leading open and libre software initiatives, 2024 has been a year of applying that experience at the local level. I have created three community projects that demonstrate how open innovation and citizen collaboration can transform essential services in our cities.
Our study reveals a trend in local knowledge contributions in OpenStreetMap: a small but dedicated number of local mappers, making up just about 3% of contributors who are in the area mapping, is responsible for approximately 75% of the detailed mapping contributions.
This is an update on how the Alpha phase of the Open Mapping Hub in LATAM is finding ways to connect geospatial data, open mapping volunteers and communities that need data and mapping for their own purposes.