TY - JOUR
T1 - GEO-C
T2 - 2018 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference, FOSS4G 2018
AU - Granell, Carlos
AU - Bhattacharya, Devanjan
AU - Casteleyn, Sven
AU - Degbelo, Auriol
AU - Gould, M.
AU - Kray, C.
AU - Painho, Marco
AU - Trilles, Sergio
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/642332/EU#
Granell, C., Bhattacharya, D., Casteleyn, S., Degbelo, A., Gould, M., Kray, C., ... Trilles, S. (2018). GEO-C: Enabling open cities and the open city toolkit. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 42(4W8), 61-68. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-61-2018
PY - 2018/7/11
Y1 - 2018/7/11
N2 - The GEO-C doctoral programme, entitled "Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities", is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (International Training Networks (ITN), European Joint Doctorates) until December 2018, and is managed by three European universities in Germany, Portugal and Spain. 15 doctoral grantholders (Early Stage Researchers) were selected to work on specific three-year projects, all contributing to improving the notion of open cities, and specifically to an Open City Toolkit of methodologies, code, and best practice examples. Contributions include volunteered geographic information (VGI), public information displays, mobility apps to encourage green living, providing open data to immigrant populations, reducing the second-order digital divide, sensing of quality of life, proximity based privacy protection, and spatio-temporal online social media analysis. All doctoral students conducted long-term visits and were embedded in city governments and businesses, to gain experience from multiple perspectives in addition to the researcher and users' perspective. The projects are situated within three areas: Transparency, participation, and collaboration. They took mostly a bottom-up (citizen-centric) approach to (smart) open cities, rather than relying on large IT companies to create smart open cities in a top-down manner. This paper discusses the various contributions to enabling open cities, explains in some detail the Open City Toolkit, and its possible uses and impact on stakeholders. A follow-up doctoral program has been solicited and, if successful, will continue this line of research and will strengthen aspects of privacy, data provenance, and trust, in an effort to improve relations between data (e.g. news) publishers and consumers.
AB - The GEO-C doctoral programme, entitled "Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities", is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (International Training Networks (ITN), European Joint Doctorates) until December 2018, and is managed by three European universities in Germany, Portugal and Spain. 15 doctoral grantholders (Early Stage Researchers) were selected to work on specific three-year projects, all contributing to improving the notion of open cities, and specifically to an Open City Toolkit of methodologies, code, and best practice examples. Contributions include volunteered geographic information (VGI), public information displays, mobility apps to encourage green living, providing open data to immigrant populations, reducing the second-order digital divide, sensing of quality of life, proximity based privacy protection, and spatio-temporal online social media analysis. All doctoral students conducted long-term visits and were embedded in city governments and businesses, to gain experience from multiple perspectives in addition to the researcher and users' perspective. The projects are situated within three areas: Transparency, participation, and collaboration. They took mostly a bottom-up (citizen-centric) approach to (smart) open cities, rather than relying on large IT companies to create smart open cities in a top-down manner. This paper discusses the various contributions to enabling open cities, explains in some detail the Open City Toolkit, and its possible uses and impact on stakeholders. A follow-up doctoral program has been solicited and, if successful, will continue this line of research and will strengthen aspects of privacy, data provenance, and trust, in an effort to improve relations between data (e.g. news) publishers and consumers.
KW - Doctoral programme
KW - GEO-C
KW - GIScience
KW - Open cities
KW - Open City Toolkit
KW - Participation
KW - Smart cities
KW - Transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051478937&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-61-2018
DO - 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-61-2018
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85051478937
SN - 1682-1750
VL - 42
SP - 61
EP - 68
JO - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
JF - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
IS - 4W8
Y2 - 29 August 2018 through 31 August 2018
ER -