Computer Models for Social Change - AAG

Be careful what you say

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:39:15 +0000

My comments at AAG 2012 provoke a twitter conversation and a journal article:

Haklay, Mordechai. 2012. Geographic information science: tribe, badge and sub-discipline. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37(4): 477–481, October 2012

This year's AAG

sieber — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:24:38 +0000

Our presence at the annual Association of American Geographers meeting in NYC, February 24-28

Community Activism on the Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb) (Sponsored by Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group; Applied Geography Specialty Group; GIScience, Cyberinfrastructure, and Social Media Special Session Track)

ORGANIZER(S): Renee Sieber, McGill University; Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia-Okanagan

CHAIR(S): Renee Sieber, McGill University

Wendy E Brawer, Founding Director, Green Map System, Green Maps: Transforming Local Information into Global Interaction.

Marcy L Burchfield, MSc, Neptis Foundation, An experiment in building an ad hoc collaborative regional planning community on the Geoweb.

Pamela Robinson, MCIP RPP, Ryerson University; Nick Weigeldt, Clean Air Partnership, Expert vs. Crowdsourced Urban Planning: A VGI Cage Match with Governance Implications.

Renee Sieber, McGill University; Andreane Lussier, McGill University; Patrick Quinn, McGill University; Peter Johnson, McGill University, Community Activism, Watershed Management, and the Geospatial Web 2.0.

Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Food networking: using the geoweb to support food related dialogue.

Our team at AAG

sieber — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:24:06 +0000

Our team had a strong showing at the annual Association of American Geographers meeting in Seattle, April 12-16:

Nama R Budhathoki and Renee Sieber. GeoWeb from a Governance Perspective.

Peter A. Johnson. Using the Geoweb to Engage Rural Communities in Economic and Environmental Decision-Making.

Renee Sieber. Volunteered Geographic Information: motivation or empowerment?

Jian Zhou, Renee Sieber, Mark Chandler and Linda Sohl. Climate Models for the Education of Citizen Scientists.