BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260519T042022EDT-7871fWvGLE@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260519T082022Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Â鶹´«Ă˝ÍřŐľ School of Information Studies (SIS) Semina r Series talk with speaker Dr. RenĂ©e Sieber on civic participation in an e ra of geospatial web and open data.\n\nABSTRACT\n\nIf we believe the rheto ric\, information and communications technologies have transformed civic p articipation around issues of place. I refer here to public participation\ , usually by residents of a community\, to influence public policy around issues that matter to everyday lived experience. Civic participation appea rs to have been impacted by new mapping platforms (e.g.\, Google Maps)\, w hich allow people to interactively and continuously navigate digital repre sentations at increasingly hyperlocal resolutions. Location based services bring geospatial specific content to your mobile device where you are rig ht now. To these digital maps experts and non-experts alike can add geotag ged content of practically anything place-based\, whether a restaurant rev iew or a favourite park\, a notice of a protest march or a siting of a pot hole. The metaphors of civic participation extend into what is called the geospatial web. The location-based application FourSquare even enables you to get elected as mayor of a particular place. Much of geospatial web con verges with big data. Interested publics have digitized the world’s road n etwork and much more in the massive crowdsourced application\, OpenStreetM ap. To the petabytes of citizen-contributed\, cloud-based geolocated data on the web\, governments\, such as cities\, are opening up data sets as we ll as accepting data from the public\, for example via Open 311 type syste ms. Community residents can monitor or appify the cities in which they liv e. The new hardware\, software platforms\, the apps\, and the content appe ar to transform the way that government can talk to citizens\, citizens ca n talk to government and citizens can talk to each other.\n\nDo the geospa tial web and open data help or hurt civic participation? Or both? Is there any impact of the medium on civic participation or is the technology mere ly an instrument in a traditional\, albeit messy\, democratic process? Thi s talk traces the past twenty years of research on civic participation usi ng geospatial technologies and data. I’ll talk about what we know about ci vic participation on these platforms\, in terms of motivations and hierarc hies. I’ll describe how civic participation on this new medium can distanc e participation from channels of influence\, blur experts and non-experts\ , and disrupt existing legal and political regimes. The new technologies h ave demanded changes in methods to assess effect and effectiveness. Indeed \, they have challenged what constitutes effectiveness on these new platfo rms. I’ll conclude with some scenarios of future where civic participation collides with the smart city.\n\nBIO\n\nRenĂ©e Sieber is a professor of ge ography and environment (jointly appointed) at Â鶹´«Ă˝ÍřŐľ\, in Mont rĂ©al\, Canada. She is also affiliated with Â鶹´«Ă˝Ířվ’s School of Computer Sci ence\, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ířվ’s Digital Humanities Working Group and the Global Environmen tal and Climate Change Centre of Quebec. Sieber works at the intersection of social theory and computer code. She is best known for her research on Public Participation GIS/ Participatory GIS (PPGIS). She authored the defi nitive literature review of PPGIS\, which has been cited over 500 times. I n March 2013 Sieber was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant to investigate h ow the geospatial web 2.0 (e.g.\, Google Maps\, OpenStreetMap\, and locati on based services) and open data are transforming the ways citizens and ci ties interact. The grant has 26 researchers and 30 partners across public and private sectors\, and civil society. Her work within the grant focuses on the evolution of open data standards—what is lost and what is gained a s cities homogenize their data to increase interoperability—and on the con cept of “frictionless participation”—what shifts occur when both citizens and cities expect civic engagement to be effortless.\n\nThis talk is free and open to all. Please arrive early to secure a seat.\n DTSTART:20151009T163000Z DTEND:20151009T180000Z LOCATION:Room 106\, CA\, School of Information Studies\, 3661 Peel\, Rm. 10 6\, Montreal SUMMARY:Information Studies Seminar Series: 'Civic Participation in an Era of Geospatial Web & Open Data.' Guest speaker Dr. R. Sieber URL:/sis/channels/event/seminar-series-sieber-civic-pa rticipation-geospatial-web-open-data END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR