2006/09/01 by Renee Sieber, Renée Sieber · 1,201 citations
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Cartography #Citizen journalism #Computer science #Data science #Data-Driven Disease Surveillance #Environmental planning #Environmental resource management #GIS and public health #Geographic Information Systems Studies #Geographic information system #Geography #Geomatics #Grassroots #Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis #Information system #Knowledge management #Participatory GIS #Political science #Politics #Public participation #Public participation GIS #Public relations #Volunteered geographic information #World Wide Web
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00702.x
published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96(3), 491-507 (American Association of Geographers)
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Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) pertains to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to broaden public involvement in policymaking as well as to the value of GIS to promote the goals of nongovernmental organizations, grassroots groups, and community-based organizations. The article first traces the social history of PPGIS. It then argues that PPGIS has been socially constructed by a broad set of actors in research across disciplines and in practice across sectors. This produced and reproduced concept is then explicated through four major themes found across the breadth of the PPGIS literature: place and people, technology and data, process, and outcome and evaluation. The themes constitute a framework for evaluating current PPGIS activities and a roadmap for future PPGIS research and practice.