marin
Mar is the Senior Communications Strategist at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s Latin America and Caribbean Hub, with over six years of experience in regional and global communications. Since 2024, she has also been an active member of Wikimedia Mexico, where she joined the movement through the Women Wikimedian School.
A digital activist from Querétaro, México, Mar has led initiatives across the public and private sectors, academia, and civil society. Her work spans civic tech, peace culture, education, citizen participation, gender equality, and cybersecurity—collaborating with organizations such as Code for All, UNFPA, and the Mozilla Festival.
She holds a BA in International Relations with minors in Peace and Conflict Studies (Tec de Monterrey) and Feminist Communications (Claustro de Sor Juana University), grounding her strategic work in a multidisciplinary and feminist lens.
Session
In this session, together with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), we will show how open mapping technologies, free knowledge platforms, and even low-cost drones can be used to help preserve the planet.
This session shares the knowledge generated from the HotOSM project supported by Wikimedia Mexico and wants to showcase the following ideas:
* How technology changes and that the documentation on Wikimedia Commons also changes over time.
* How we can build bridges and foster collaboration across free and open knowledge sister communities.
* How this initiative provides a practical, replicable model that can be adapted by Wikimedia communities worldwide to document and protect their own environments.