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Outcomes from OH/Pollicy Session at OGP Summit

In 2018, the Open Government Partnership introduced Feminist Open Government as a theme. The following year, the government of Canada adopted it as their main theme for the OGP summit. We saw countries discussing gender and how they can promote equality and for a while, things looked bright. Then the pandemic hit us all, but women, LGBTQ+ and ethnic minorities the most.

This year’s Pride Month has been filled with festivities all around the globe in honour of LGBTQ experiences and voices. However, the celebration and inclusion of LGBTQ+ people should not be a once-a-year affair, especially in the workplace.

When we started Open Heroines (OH) in 2016, I was 30, junior to mid-career level, and needed a space to talk to others about the struggles of women and non-binary people in an eco-system that, while is very progressive about social change, struggled (and still struggle) with power dynamics and bias.

La perspectiva de género es una herramienta indispensable para modificar los mecanismos que perpetúan la desigualdad y sus manifestaciones en la vida cotidiana de las mujeres.

How Open Data can help inform access to care and outcomes of NCDs

2022 has undoubtedly been different from the last 2 years. Air spaces opened up and we were able to move around the globe to attend open+ conferences, something that we weren’t able to do since the pandemic began.

Open Heroines is looking for a creative Web Designer to help us build a new website.

Open Heroines is excited to be invited to The Feminist Forum of the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, taking place on November 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I had the chance to attend for the first time Abrelatam/ConDatos, the meeting point for the Latin America data community in late September.

En el primer semestre de 2022 participé con una beca de Open Heroines del curso Datos contra el Feminicidio para mujeres y disidencias de Latinoamérica y el Caribe.

In July, Open Heroines launched a new project, the OH Working Labs. This is a new space aimed at channelling the creativity and energy of community members towards the creation of new solutions to different challenges, from a feminist perspective.

Me gustaría compartir algunos hallazgos y reflexiones a partir de los resultados de mi investigación “Una aproximación espacial a los femi(ni)cidios en Uruguay entre 2001 y 2019”.

Public transport data is increasingly published as open data sets. They are usually published in municipal and national open data portals and are often used by third-party developers to create apps for end-users.

El conocimiento es la relación que se construye en el procesamiento de un dato y su proyección.

Elegant, joyful and quite the prankster. Yoyo goat wandered around the town square in 1922 when it was elected as councillor.

You’re writing a grant application, and you want to make a strong case for open science! You’ve seen colleagues use language from human rights treaties to support their arguments for open work in the past: but what does that actually mean?

This week, in honor of International Women’s Day, we are publishing a series of monologues from women in toxic work environments in the open data, open government, and civic tech spaces. This model is based off OH’s Open Gender Monologues, opening up space for women to share experiences and tell…

Introduction The year is 2020. We’re still far from achieving gender equality, and many women still don’t feel comfortable at work. This International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020, we’ve decided to go back to basics – and advocate for better and healthier work environments. We know, #metoo is very 2018, but toxic…

Recently, an unintended manel at the Paris Peace Forum led Open Heroines to write a Guide to the Guy Who Got Stuck on a Manel.

When we started Open Heroines, one thing on our minds was that we consistently weren’t seeing enough women speaking at conferences and events.