Computer Models for Social Change - News

Our newest masters student, Jin Xing

sieber — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:12:27 +0000

Welcome to Jin Xing, who officially joins our group. He is studying for a masters degree in Computer Science. In his research he will investigate the use of cloud computing for remote sensing. Specifically, he will examine the challenges of building a hybrid cloud for analyzing large hyperspectral remote sensed imagery files.

Ecological Footprints and Geospatial Technologies

sieber — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:15:40 +0000

At long last, our first of two papers on ecological footrpints and geopstial technologies is published.

Sonja Klinsky, Renee Sieber, Thom Meredith. Creating local ecological footprints in a North American context. Local Environment Vol. 14, No. 6., pp. 495-513.

Britta's research in video

sieber — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:55:48 +0000

GEOIDE project 41 from Britta Ricker on Vimeo.

GEOIDE presentations

sieber — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:10:45 +0000

Our Presentations at the Annual GEOIDE Conference, May 28-30 in Vancouver, BC.

Hanif Rahemtulla. Beyond The Internet ‐ Distributing Voluntary Geographic Information Using Mobile Technology.

Hanif Rahemtulla. Mapping Change For Sustainable Communities.

R. Sieber, H. Rahemtulla, A. Turner. Governance And The Geoweb.

Korbin Dasilva. Networking Farmers Markets And Consumers ‐ The Growing Pains Of Desktop To Server Side.

Britta Ricker and Renee Sieber. Citizens As Environmental Change Sensors: A Case Study Of Barbados.

Ricker gets internship at Commission for Environmental Cooperation

sieber — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:05:56 +0000

Britta obtained a summer internship to work in close cooperation with the CEC to investigate Web 2.0 tools for mapping environmental concerns that cross the three NAFTA countries. Congratulations, Britta!

Book chapter is out

sieber — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:06:49 +0000

The Planning Support Systems Book is finally out (2009/04/03). Here's our chapter.

Johnson Book chapter: 2009. Johnson, P. A., & Sieber, R. E., Agent-based modeling: A dynamic scenario planning approach to tourism PSS. In S. Geertman & J. Stillwell (Eds.), Planning Support Systems: Best Practices and New Methods. Berlin: Springer.

The team goes to Las Vegas

sieber — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:08:20 +0000

The team has a strong presence at the Association for American Geographers Annual Conference, March 22-27.

Eades, Luke. Indigenous Geographic Information Systems: (Re)configuring Geospatial Technologies for Local Productions of Space. Presentation at the AAG.

Johnson, P.A., Modeling destination competition: Tourist destinations as adaptive agents. Presentation at the AAG.

Rahemtulla, Hanif, Claire Ellul, Louise Francis, and Colleen Whitaker. Mapping Change for Sustainable Communities. Presentation at the AAG.

Ricker, Britta. Environmental Change through the Eyes of Barbadians on the Geoweb. Presentation at the AAG.

Congratulations to our Participatory Geoweb team

sieber — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:31:06 +0000

We were awarded our three years of funding for our GEOIDE grant: The Participatory Geoweb for Engaging the Public on Global Environmental Change. Congrats to our nodes in the Atlantic provinces, McGill, Ryerson, and UBC.

ICT4D Atlas

sieber — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:49:24 +0000

We are pleased to host The International Development Research Centre (IDRC)'s ICT4D Atlas, a downloaded digital earth for representing spatial data. We call it Web 1.5, which is perfect if you are in a country with limited or no bandwidth.

According to the site:

This interactive tool highlights results of research networks in Asian, Latin American and African countries. The Atlas will help the user understand better the territorial issues associated with ICT indicators and help build evidence to inform policymakers in these regions. We hope through this project that individuals at all levels (government, academic, NGO, civil society and private sector) will access, populate and visualize relevant multiregional geographical information in order to promote dialogue and engender change. In support of this vision, the project will refine and further develop and disseminate a scalable Free and Open Source spatial platform from existing technologies that will increase open access to relevant information and build awareness and capacity through participatory knowledge sharing.

SKI Canada

sieber — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:21:31 +0000

Spatial Knowledge Canada Second Annual Conference, February 20 to Sunday, February 22. The program is here.