examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies of participatory gis
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Examining the values that are
embedded in the processes and
technologies of participatory GIS
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Acknowledgement
This talk would not be possible without the
generosity of the many people and
communities that we have worked with
over the years…
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Acknowledgement
… and the funders, project partners, and sponsors that we’ve worked with (and will work with in the future)
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Outline
• Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) as a
socio-technical practice
• Values in PPGIS
• Values and technology: Andrew
Feenberg’s mapping and deep
democratisation
• Explicitly integrating values and process
in technology
• Where next?
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Participatory GIS: context
1980s
• Participatory Rural Appraisal
• Participatory Learning and Action
1990s
• Public Participation GIS (PPGIS)
• Participatory GIS (PGIS)
2000s
• Volunteered / Crowdsourced Geographic information
• Participatory Sensing
2010s
• Citizen Science
APB-CMX Harry Wood 2010
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Chauffeurs, facilitators & technology
Aurigi, A., Batty, S., Bloomfield, D., Boott, R., Clark, J., Haklay, M., Harrison, C., Heppell, K., Moreley, J. and Thornton, C.
(1999), UCL Brownfield Research Network, University College London, London, UK, 42 pp
1998
Technical: Commercial Desktop GIS, government
environmental information, desktop
computers
Social: Facilitated participatory process, low level familiarity
with technology
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2003
In house development by a green IT company,
costly basemap
Collaborative deliberative process,
paper focused
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2006
Google mapping & API, ease of development
and use
Haklay, M.. 2006, How to build a Green GIS from the bottom up?, Israeli Geographers Association Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv,
Israel, December 17-18
Collaborative deliberative process,
paper focused
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2007
Community led software development,
participatory data collection
Haklay, M. and Weber, P., 2008, OpenStreetMap – User Generated Street Map, IEEE Pervasive Computing. October-December
2008:12-18.
Mapping Parties, Pub meetups, self-organised/IRC coordination
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Community air quality monitoring 2016
Decoupled front end/back end software
for community mapping, APIs
Structured process, both community led
and initiated deliberately, digital
Ellul, C., Francis, L., and Haklay, M., 2012, Engaging with local communities: A review of three years of community mapping.
Urban and Regional Data Management, UDMS Annual 2011 - Proceedings of the Urban Data Management Society Symposium
pp. 165 - 177
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• From the start, PPGIS was both limited
and enabled by technological aspects:
hardware, software, data, and network
speed
• The “Public Participation” part means
that it is embedded in complex and
detailed social practices
PPGIS as socio-technical practice
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PPGIS AND VALUES
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies
of participatory GIS
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• As if being socio-technical is not enough…
• PPGIS is a valued-laden practice
• Moreover, PPGIS is mostly about
expressing the values. Otherwise, usual
instrumentalist/utilitarian/technocratic/
empiricist practices should apply
Values
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• Ensuring societal benefits from technology
Values in PPGIS
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• Respecting lay, local and traditional
knowledge
Values in PPGIS
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• Community, collective views, addressing
inequities
Values in PPGIS
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• Maintaining scientific standards, ensuring
quality, empowerment
Values in PPGIS
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• Supporting wider societal and
environmental goals
Values in PPGIS
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• Democratisation
Values in PPGIS
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• Representation, giving voice
Values in PPGIS
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• Inclusion (passive or assertive)
Values in PPGIS
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Values
• Address social or environmental justice
• Inclusion
• Democratisation
• Control & Self-determination
• Egalitarian production of knowledge
• Respect to lay, local and traditional knowledge
• Relinking to nature
• Individual vs. community
• Data validity, scientific standards
• Not wasting participants time
• Ensuring efficient, effective, and economic participation
• Securing decision making by majorities/loud participants vs. including minorities
• Contribution to wider societal goals (e.g. science)
• Meaningful & flourishing human relationships
• “The Good Life”
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VALUES IN TECHNOLOGY
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies
of participatory GIS
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Thinking through technology
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• The prevalence of the instrumentalist
view: technology is value-free, and
therefore it is open to any use
• Digital technology is being promoted by
emphasising the up-sides, and not
mentioning, or even ignoring, downsides
and side-effect
Two common challenges
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Feenberg‘s philosophy of technology
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Main positions in Philosophy of
Technology
Technology is: Autonomous Humanly Controlled
Neutral (complete
separation of means and ends)
Determinism
(traditional Marxism)
Instrumentalism (liberal
faith in progress)
Value-laden(means form a way of life that includes ends)
Substantivism (means and
ends linked in a system)
Critical Theory (choice of
alternative means-ends systems)
Source: Feenberg, A. (1999) Questioning Technology, Routledge, New York.
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Feenberg’s Deep Democratisation
• ‘Technical representation is not primarily
about the selection of a trusted
personnel, but involves the embodiment
of social and political demands in
technical codes.’
• Technology can be also change from
within, through an intervention by the
users
Source: Feenberg, A. (1999) Questioning Technology, Routledge, New York.
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INTEGRATING VALUES IN PPGIS
TECHNOLOGY & PROCESSES
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• Integrate technology with a social
process, and take account of the context
ExCiteS/MfC Guiding principles
Wider context
Social context
Mapping
• Politics
• Economics
• Local inclusiveness
• Technical ability
• Views / Perceptions
• Facts / Evidence
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• Directed process, with deliberate open
elements to ensure co-design and local
control
ExCiteS/MfC Guiding principles
Introduction to existing
public information
General perception mapping
Discussion & initial
priorities setting
Digitisation, visualisation
and discussion
Website and online map
Citizen Science and
data gathering
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• Work with people where they are, don’t
expect them to come to you (physically,
and digitally)
ExCiteS/MfC Guiding principles
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• Keep it simple, in order to make it
inclusive (no cutting edge tech)
ExCiteS/MfC Guiding principles
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ExCiteS/MfC technologies
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http://geokey.org.uk/
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Community Maps
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Mapping for Change Process
Introduction to existing public
information
General perception mapping
Discussion & initial priorities
setting
Digitisation, visualisation and
discussion
Website and online map
Citizen Science and data gathering
Haklay, M., and Francis, L., forthcoming 2017. Participatory GIS and community-based citizen science for environmental justice
action, in Chakraborty, J., Walker, G. and Holifield, R.(eds.), Handbook of Environmental Justice, Routledge
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Earthquake preparedness
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• Reach people where they are: linking to
social media outlets
• Simplify: process is deliberately simple
and limited in analysis, with ability of
exporting information for further analysis
• Community control: moderation,
different levels of access
• Representation: visualisation and icons
through participatory processes
GeoKey/Community Maps
Roick, O., Haklay, M., and Ellul, C.. 2016, GeoKey - open infrastructure for
community mapping and science, Human Computation
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Engagement: Free, Prior Informed Consent
(FPIC)
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Participatory software design
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Participatory Software design
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Training and support
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Monitoring poaching
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• Respecting local knowledge: designing
icons in the field with participants
• Data control: acting as custodians in
terms of managing the information
• Community vs Individuals: FPIC,
community protocol.
• Democratisation, giving voice:
technology and process to ensure
inclusion
Sapelli/GeoKey
Stevens, M., Vitos, M., Altenbuchner, M., Conquest, G., Lewis, J. and Haklay, M.,
2014, Taking Participatory Citizen Science to Extremes, IEEE Pervasive
Computing, 13(2):20-29
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• Integrating values into PPGIS technologies
is possible, but does not stop using it as a
means to a different ends:
– Using Sapelli to help navigate legal details of
logging permits and laws
– Using Community Maps to collaboratively
map experiences of Concord
– Using GeoKey for community preparedness
checklists with alerts
Deep democratisation?
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WHERE NEXT?
ExCiteS & Mapping for Change
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Experimenting with maps
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Tap&Map
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Summary
• PPGIS is a socio-technical, value-laden
process and practice
• Values should be expressed in the social
practices and in the technologies that are
used
• Generic technologies can be used, with some
compromises and trade-offs
• Developing technologies also require
compromises and trade-offs
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The work of ExCiteS is supported by EPSRC, ERC, EU FP7, EU H2020, RGS, Esri, Forest People Program, Forests Monitor, WRI and all the people in communities that we’ve worked with over the years