"Iniciativa Barcelona Open Data is an association dedicated to promoting the publication of open data and transforming this data into technological tools that allow us to address social challenges. Specifically, the Data Women team transforms various data into visualizations to represent, for example, gender violence or discrimination in the workplace," says Lourdes Muñoz Santamaría, director of Iniciativa Barcelona Open Data . Next Thursday, March 6, the Barcelona Open Data initiative will organize a new edition of the Open Data Day. The event, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. and end at 8 p.m., will take place at Ca l'Alier, located at Carrer de Pere IV, number 362, in the city of Barcelona. This year, under the title 'Women Leading Open Data for Equality', the meeting will focus on addressing projects and strategies for publishing and reusing data to make visible women's leadership in open data and its impact on the challenges of the feminist agenda. "Having objective data makes the discrimination and violence suffered by women evident. Being able to process large amounts of objective data shows us, for example, that there have been 2.2 million complaints in the last fifteen years and, therefore, the great impact that violence against women has on our society," Muñoz exemplifies.
"This year, we dedicate Open Data Day to women's rights and to giving visibility to the ecosystem of women who lead open data technology projects in Catalonia," explains Muñoz. In this context, the event will bring together leading women in the open data and technology ecosystem to share innovative projects that contribute to equality. Thus, several initiatives will be presented, such as institutions that publish data and digital solutions that reuse them to address challenges such as gender violence, digital violence, the wage gap or co-responsibility for care. The meeting will seek to make visible the leadership of women in the field of open data and their potential to advance women's rights. "We will put on the table the need to have open data disaggregated by sex and the problems that affect women, to create technology to address discrimination and to incorporate the gender perspective into automation programs," Muñoz points out. Open Data Day is a global initiative that has been celebrated for over ten years and where groups around the world create local events using open data in their communities to create visualizations. Since 2017, the Barcelona Open Data Initiative has been organizing meetings to promote the use of open data.
Interested people can register online through this link .