youthmetre: open geographic information and people politics
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Open Geographic Information and People
Politics
http://www.youthmetre.eu
Karl Donert, President EUROGEO
Open Geographic Information and People Politics
1. People’s politics, participative Geography and the “open revolution”
2. Engaging young people through geographic information: YouthMetre Project
3. Conclusions
People’s Politics
YouthMetre Training
http://youthmetre.eu/training/
Online resources / training materials - v. soon
Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017
Training for NGOs - January 2018Using
Geographic
Information
Participatory Geography
Geographers in Policy (Parliamentary Assembly)
Geographers in policy
Geographers in policy (SDGs)
Geographers in policy (UN)
Eurobarometer Surveys
• Examined active engagement of youth
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_408_en.pdf
Youth increasingly distanced from
policy making and decisions
European Youth Strategy
EYS (2010-8) has two main objectives:
•Provide more and equal opportunities for young people in education and the job market
•Encourage young people to actively participate in society
European Youth Strategy
• EU Youth Strategy, agreed by EU Ministers, sets out a framework for cooperation covering 2010-2018
• EU Member States have overall responsibility for their own youth policy (subsidiarity) i.e. not the EU
• Funding to local / regional government
YouthMetre Challenge
http://youthmetre.eu/training/
Online resources / training materials - v. soon
Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017
Training for NGOs - January 2018MACRO level
MESO level
MiCRO level
Young people are heard
Young people give their opinion
Views taken into account
Involved in decision making
Participatory Geography
Barriers to participation
Wikification of GIS ….. by the masses
• First used in 2005 (Boulos, 2005)
• Volunteered Geographic Information (Goodchild, 2007)
Boulos, M.N.K., 2005. Web GIS in practice III: creating a simple interactive map of England's strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control. International journal of health geographics, 4(1), p.22.
Goodchild, M.F., 2007. Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal, 69(4), pp.211-221
Bonney, R., Cooper, C. and Ballard, H., 2016. The theory and practice of Citizen Science: Launching a new journal. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 1(1).
Finquelievich, S., 2014. From Cultural Consumers to Cultural Prosumers: Citizens’ Co-creation of Cultural Changes in Information Society. Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations in Information Society, p.137.
Participation in Citizen Science
Barriers to participation
Maps and interactive visualisations helps cities decode their toughest challenges https://t.co/3Jmbc0ZMJC
Empower youth to have an impact on EU youth policy
http://www.youthmetre.eu
http://eryica.org/page/principles-online-youth-information
15 Study Groups
http://youthmetre.eu/study-groups/
Research & data sets
http://youthmetre.eu/policy-research/
YouthMetreKey features:
•a dashboard of European data on Youth
•a database of good practice initiatives put in place by European public bodies
•Crowdmap of proposed initiatives
•a high profile launch event
•training of multipliers
http://youthmetre.eu/youthmetre/
Youth Development IndexBased on 87 indicators Related to youth well-being(NUTS 3 data where available)
http://knowto.org/ym/
Data Dashboard
Good Practices
http://arcg.is/1TAbmn7
http://youthmetre.eu/study-group-surveys/
Crowdmap: Youth ideas
NEED TO CREATE DIALOGUE
GeoCitizen Community
Process:Orient - BrowseIdentify - CollectShare - DiscussPropose - Rate Implement - Monitor
information
generate ideas - discussion
agree ideas
implementation
GeoCitizen: an engagement platform
European Commission (2015), Creating Value Through Open Data http://tinyurl.com/j6qypoe
YouthMetre Training
http://youthmetre.eu/training/
Online resources / training materials - v. soon
Non formal learning approaches
Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017
Training for NGOs - January 2018
Conclusion: What Impact? (Graham et al., 2016)
• rejuvenating democracy
• reforming corrupt institutions
• holding business and government to account
• improving the quality of data available
• changing relationships between data producers, data users and institutions
Graham M, De Sabbata S and Zook MA (2016), Towards a study of information geographies, Geo, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/geo2.8/abstract
Web: http://www.youthmetre.eu
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