Safe and comfortable public facilities for both genders are raising awareness of the fact that space is not neutral. Space can either facilitate or impede their use, especially in terms of comfort and safety for women. Women tend to enjoy doing activities with other fellow women, have specific health needs, facing more complex cultural, financial, and physical barriers to attending school or work (Wiki OpenStreetMap, n.d.). For example, in 2012, the accumulation of breastfeeding rooms in three provinces in Indonesia is merely 8% in Government Health Facilities, 61% in Private Health Facilities, 10% in Government Offices, 11% in Private Offices, and 0% in Public Facilities (AIMI & Betterwork Indonesia, 2012). Whilst, a survey made by UNFPA Srilanka also stated that in 2018, 90% of the 2,500 female respondents had experienced an incident of sexual harassment in public transport facilities (UNFPA Sri Lanka, 2018).
Perkumpulan OpenStreetMap Indonesia (POI) was established in 2017 as a local entity development of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Indonesia since 2011, is a non-profit organization engaged in the humanitarian field that utilizes free and open information technology, OpenStreetMap. POI supports socializing the use of OpenStreetMap and free and open technology as a fulfillment of geospatial data, a web-based free and open digital mapping platform, for sustainable development and human resource capacity building. POI focuses on 3 things: Mapping and Data Collection Training, Spatial Data Processing and Analysis, and Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology Innovation.
Perkumpulan OpenStreetMap Indonesia was developed the OpenHerMap platform collaborates with Open Mapping Asia Pacific-HOT and OpenHerMap (SLSI Program) to gather information related to the availability of women-only spaces in public facilities, such as the availability of breastfeeding rooms, free emergency menstrual pads, kids’ play spaces, spaces with CCTVs, women-only restrooms, ladies’ parking spaces, and many other women-only spaces’ necessities. Through Open Her Map, everyone can access the information for free or even take part in completing the information. We expected that this project could gather 50 participants which consist of women in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
https://openhermap.ushahidi.io/map
