By Logan Cochrane, Mark Gill, Jon Corbett The participatory geoweb has the potential to transform relations of power – who contributes and names places, what is excluded and labeled. This transformation can occur through newfound opportunities for engagement and giving voice to spatially relevant issues. In the 1990s, GIScience recognized this potential and made explicit the importance that social issues … Read More
Local News Map Will Be First To Highlight Disparities in Coverage Across Canada
By Drew Bush The impact of newsroom cutbacks, consolidations, and closures across Canada will be the focus of a new crowdsourced online geoweb map. The public can contribute to it now—with the full map available online this June. “The idea of the map is it will allow us to gather data that we haven’t been able to gather on our … Read More
Mapping Inclusive Employment: Community Engagement on the Participatory Geoweb
By Naomi Bloch In British Columbia, researchers have been using a crowdsourced mapping tool to capture positive employment experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities. Geothink co-applicant Jon Corbett, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, is one of several UBC contributors to the participatory research project. Recently, the group published findings from its two-year pilot … Read More
Mapping to Empower Excluded Populations with Jon Corbett at University of British Columbia
By Drew Bush In our daily usage, most maps contain a logical representation of a city’s streets or a forest’s hiking trails that allows us to safely navigate to new locations. For many indigenous and excluded populations, maps can play a more fundamental role. Jon Corbett, an Associate Professor in Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British … Read More
Making Waves
Making Waves: Developing, Testing and Deploying a Smart Phone App to Share Examples of Good and Poor Water Conservation in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia by Prof. Jon Corbett Here at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, we have just hired two students, Andrew Barton and Emily Millard, to work on the Geothink project. They are being co-financed by … Read More