Seema PARIHAR, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, India
Tapati BANERJEE, National Atlas THEMATIC MAPPING ORGANISATION, India
Geospatial Technologies have already evolved and have been extensively used in different branches of Geography. The strength of the GI ecosystem is based on data, their accuracy and validation, and geo-analytics. Present paper addresses this concern that emanates from the experience of bridging the missing gaps related to the gender-disaggregated data in the making of an ongoing research project, “Women Empowerment Atlas: Science &Technology Perspective”[1]. The biggest challenge in the project was in bridging the gender data gaps on the required sub-themes, considering the diversity of our country India. The folk saying "kos par badle paani, char kos pe bani" made the data collection geographically challenging on the one hand and pandemic expanded the scope for renegotiations across gender. Further, at vulnerable and marginalized places where for women the COVID 19 had been the "pandemic within pandemic," to collect data has further become challenging. This paper further highlights different methodologies and challenges that occurred in data validation during a pandemic. Till now, we had readily available data sets of 188 gender-disaggregated data from two previous gender atlases, this was not enough to delineate, visualize, and envision priority areas for improving women's livelihood status, empowering them, and visualize in the form of Gender Atlas. Newer scorecards and women empowerment indexes have been evolved and used to spatially address gender concerns. Besides, in the age of artificial intelligence, the challenge was to make use of the new age technologies and opportunities and create new dimensions in the field of analytics and intelligence. The usefulness of “Social Media Analytics ?and Sentimental Analysis have been further used and highlighted. All this has also pointed to a fact that there is an urgent need to update our geography curriculum if we wish to be current and useful in today's world where most decisions are location-based.
Mots clés : Atlas|Gender Disaggregated Data|GI Science|Women Empowerment|COVID (Pandemic)
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