Object's details: CROWDSOURCING-BASED GEOINFORMATION, DISADVANTAGED URBANISATION CHALLENGES, SUBSAHARAN AFRICA: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND NOTES

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Title:
CROWDSOURCING-BASED GEOINFORMATION, DISADVANTAGED URBANISATION CHALLENGES, SUBSAHARAN AFRICA: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND NOTES
Creator:
Ingwe, Richard
Description:
Scholars and practitioners concerned with geoinformation, cyber cartography, development studies, and other subjects increasingly explore crowdsourcing and its huge advantages for development. Some have advocated it for adoption/promotion by government as a means of citizen engagement. The objective of this article is to increase the appreciation of the contribution that crowdsourcing can make towards resolving challenges associated with disadvantaged urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We review urban challenges of SSA and three practices of crowdsourcing: volunteered geographic information (VGI), Citizen Science (CS), and Participatory Mapping (PM). Then we examine problems associated with the advocacy for government adoption of those practices in SSA. We argue that civil society collaboration with an international governmental organisation (IGO) instead of government promises a better way of adopting and promoting them. This suggestion is based on the fact that work related to this strategy is carried out by a global coalition of civil society, the UN-NGLS. This strategy promises a more rapid way of taking advantage of fast-tracking public engagement in the economic region, SSA.
Object availability:
free access
Date:
2017.03.15
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Recenzowany artykuł
Language:
English
Source:
Quaestiones Geographicae; Vol. 36 No. 1 (2017); 5-14;
Quaestiones Geographicae; Tom 36 Nr 1 (2017); 5-14;
2081-6383;
0137-477X
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/qg/article/view/8025/7927
Subject:
SSA;
crowdsourcing;
volunteered geographic information;
Citizen Science;
Participatory Mapping;
civil society;
IGO;
UN-NGLS
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/qg/article/view/8025
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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