Last year, I traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina as an Open Heroine grantee to attend the International Open Data Conference (IODC). The goal of this event is to bring the open data community together to reflect on both the current state and future of open data.
Attending IODC18 required that I step out of my comfort zone in multiple ways — as a mother who had never been apart from her 3 year old son, as a woman traveling by herself to South America, and as a developer that only had a vague idea of what ‘open’ meant.
I experienced my trip and the conference with these perspectives in mind, feeling both very lucky, and a bit nervous, all at the same time.