Can “crowdsourced” data augment authoritative datasets in local communities?

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City intelligence | “crowdsourced” data

GIS for intelligent cities of the futureCan “crowdsourced” data augment authoritative datasets in local communities?

Raf Buyle, e-government strategyFlemish Organization for ICT in Local GovernmentGeospatial World Forum 2013

V-ICT-OR, an NPO @ the crossroads

local government, central government,

private sector and the citizen

V-ICT-OR, an NPO @ the crossroads

active in Flanders

The parish Board of Guardians #localGov

the first to take an action, based on city

geo-intelligence

concentration of the dead’s as black bars at each address.

#cholera #London #JohnSnow

The parish Board of Guardians, removed the handles of the pumps, the ever first to take

an action, based on city intelligence

#1866 #cityIntelligence

#localGov#removedHandles

#2013 #GIS should rather be

problem oriented, reflecting the needs

of the local people

So what have we learned the past 147 years?

Volunteered geographic

information

not merely about

gathering the data of

amateurs

Neogeo / VGI? A conversation with Goodchild and Turner http://bit.ly/gwf-vgi

important bottlenecks which

currently avoid the major breakthrough

How can we turn this hype into a hit?

LegalCold Feet? Data Quality

Hickling Arthurs Low, VGI primerhttp://bit.ly/gwf-vgi-primer

Will VGI create a pillory?

Missing context?

Who will qualify?

integration of back-office

systems with VGI data will

lower the barriers

integration will open up opportunities for local administrations to give feedback on the

status and on the ‘advialable budget and manpower’ as well.

#VGI #CRM #GISSint-Niklaas

ESRIBeLux

#VGI #CRM #GISLokeren

ORBITGT

“Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops”“Provide people with information about their actions

in real time, then give them a chance to change those actions, pushing them toward better behaviors. ”

Thomas Goetz | Wired July 2011http://bit.ly/gwf-feedback

Zwerm, a community game

aiming to bring neighbors closer

together in Ghent,

Embed crowdsourcing

into the strategy of the local

government

Zwerm http://bit.ly/gwf-zwerm

Who determines authority?

What constitutes authority in geodata?

Does authority matter and if it does, why?

Who would I blame if

something goes

wrong?

Steven Feldman http://bit.ly/gwf-feldman

Geometrically and positionally

accurate

Complete

Correctly attributed

What makes geodataauthora

Steven Feldman http://bit.ly/gwf-feldman

“fitness for use”, or how well the data satisfies particular

needsor fulfills certain requirements to solve a problem

Hickling Arthurs Low, VGI primerhttp://bit.ly/gwf-vgi-primer

document your data (use provenance information) so each system within the local

government can decide from it’s own business

context if the data is suited and trusted in this context.

OSLO, V-ICT-ORhttp://bit.ly/isa-oslo

Provenance, W3Chttp://bit.ly/gwf-provenance

@rafke

Close the feedback loop Quality is relative: ‘’fitness for use’

Create opportunities for re-use: document the source of your information (provenance)

@rafke

Acknowledgements

Joep Crompvoets (KUL), Philippe De Maeyer, (uGent), Bart Boute (wvi),

Jürgen Closse (City of Lokeren),Frederik Woûters, Timothy Van Cleemput

AGIV, ESRI BeLux, ORBIT GT, Couderé, Siggis,

www.altergeo.be

@rafke

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