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Algorithmic governance in environmental information (or how technophilia shape environmental democracy)

Posted on Saturday 19 March 2016 by mukih

These are the slides from my talk at the Algorithmic Governance workshop (for which there are lengthy notes in the previous post). The workshop explored the many ethical, legal and conceptual issues with the transition to Big Data and algorithm based decision-making. My contribution to the discussion is based on previous thoughts on environmental information … Continue reading Algorithmic governance in environmental information (or how technophilia shape environmental democracy)

Aarhus convention, Algorithmic Governance, Big Data, citizen science, Concepts, Environment, environmental and society, environmental GIS, Environmental information, environmental information systems, environmental justice, Extreme Citizen Science, GIS Usability, public access to environmental information

Environmental Information Systems – R.F. Tomlinson (1970)

Posted on Tuesday 11 February 2014 by Muki Haklay

The news that Roger Tomlinson, famously ‘the father of GIS‘, passed away few days ago are sad – although I met him only few times, it was an honour to meet one of the pioneers of my field. A special delight during my PhD research was to discover, at the UCL library the proceedings of […]

EIS, Environmental information, environmental information systems, GIS

Reflections on Eye on Earth summit (2): the 3 eras of public access to environmental information

Posted on Monday 19 December 2011 by mukih

As noted in the previous post, which focused on the linkage between GIS and Environmental Information Systems, the Eye on Earth Summit took place in Abu Dhabi on the 12 to 15 December 2011, and focused on ‘the crucial importance of environmental and societal information and networking to decision-making’. Throughout the summit, two aspects of […]

Aarhus convention, Conference, Earth Summit, Environmental information, environmental information systems, Extreme Citizen Science, Principle 10, public access to environmental information, VGI, Web 2.0

Reflections on Eye on Earth summit: the integration of GIS in Environmental Information Systems

Posted on Saturday 17 December 2011 by mukih

The Eye on Earth Summit took place in Abu Dhabi on the 12 to 15 December 2011, and focused on ‘the crucial importance of environmental and societal information and networking to decision-making’. The summit was an opportunity to evaluate the development of Principle 10 from Rio declaration in 1992 as well as Chapter 40 of […]

Concepts, Conference, Environmental information, environmental information systems, Eye on Earth Summit, Geographic information system, GIS