“A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge.” from the International Women’s Day 2021 website

The theme for International Women’s Day 2021, which is officially celebrated on 8 March, is “Choose to Challenge”. The Community Working Group has chosen to challenge all forms of gender bias and inequality within the OSM ecosystem across the month of March by organizing events featuring community members, activists, and experts.

If you are interested in participating in one of these virtual events or can recommend a person or organization to potentially serve as a speaker, panelist, facilitator, or in another capacity, please comment on this post or contact me directly (info below). We hope to co-create the format and content of the events in collaboration with our speakers.

We welcome all questions and recommendations!!

Contact info:

1. [email protected]

2. HOT Slack: Message me @courtney_clark or post in the Community WG channel.