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Public Participation GIS, Autumn 2007
The series was sponsored by WUN/GGISA, Institute of British Geographers Research Methods Study Group and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and organized by Tim Nyerges (Washington, Seattle) and Dave Unwin (WUN)
‘PPGIS’ is a growing field of interest in which WUN researchers are well to the fore, but which also shows considerable differences internationally that are related to differing cultural and economic settings.
You are encouraged to integrate these presentations by experts in the field with your own teaching at advanced undergraduate or post-graduate level. Just as we have had to learn entirely new protocols for use in the presentations, so we are gaining experience in how best to undertake this integration into regular teaching.
Following the seminar series should enable participants to:
- follow current literature in the field;
- compare and contrast participatory GIS, public participation GIS, Internet GIS and Web GIS information technologies;
- understand the interplay between GIScience and GISystems research understand advantages and disadvantages of different research approaches for assessing PPGIS use
Although the series carries no activities for which a formal assessment is appropriate, our hope is that graduate student classes, in particular, will build on it by creating some formal, assessed activity that enables the series to be ‘hard wired’ into their research training programmes. Possible activities might be completion of an individual essay based on some or all of the presented materials, additional local seminars, web site construction, or even local participatory work in the community. A document has been prepared by David Unwin and Tim Nyerges with a research bibliography, full programme and suggestions for teaching activities: download pdf of document (218 kb pdf).
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