Using classic methods in a networked manner: seeing volunteered spatial information in a bottom-up fashion
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Aesop, 09 juli 2014
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Article in monograph or in proceedings
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Planologie
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English (eng)
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Proceedings Aesop 2014, from control to co-evolution, Session 1, track 16: Stakeholders from side line to centre in planning, paper 3
Subject
Shaping and Changing of Places and SpacesAbstract
Using new social media and ICT infrastructures for self-organization, more and more citizen networks
and business sectors organize themselves voluntarily around sustainability themes. The paper traces
and evaluates one emerging innovation in such bottom-up, networked form of sustainable governance:
The use of sensor data by citizen communities. In such ‘bottom-up community initiatives’, the sensed
data is published on Internet presenting real-time, web-based GIS maps about issues like noise, air
quality or earthquakes. In the study, two particular cases are analyzed to trace the emergence and
network operation of such a ‘networked’ geo-information tool in practice: (1) The Airplane Monitor
Schiphol and (2) The Groningen earthquake monitor.
The paper discusses how in these cases, citizen sensor networks are combining classical
methodological approaches with enabling infrastructures and data sources. We find the makers
creatively blend classic methods with newly available open data & information technologies. The
tools are working as “social boundary objects,” as information hubs, which co-evolve with and
reinforce the power of the citizen initiative as a network. The paper concludes with a discussion of two
propositions: (1) Computer and Internet technology co-evolve with method advancement in planning,
and (2) Citizen sensor networks work as embodied method for hypothesis falsification.
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