scholarly journals A Scalable GeoWeb Tool for Argumentation Mapping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron P Sani ◽  
Claus Rinner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
The Web

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) support collaborative decision-making in the public realm. PPGIS provide advanced communication, deliberation, and conflict resolution mecha nisms to engage diverse stakeholder groups. Many of the functional characteristics of Web 2.0 echo basic PPGIS functions including the authoring, linking, and sharing of volunteered geographic information. However, with the increasing popularity of geospatial applications on the Web comes a need to develop concepts for scalable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain tools. In this paper, we propose a cloud computing implementation of a scalable argumentation mapping tool. The tool also illustrates the opportunities of applying a Web 2.0 model to PPGIS. The searching, linking, authoring, tagging, extension, and signalling (SLATES) functions are associated with PPGIS functionality to produce a participatory GeoWeb tool for deliberative democracy.

scholarly journals A Scalable GeoWeb Tool for Argumentation Mapping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron P Sani ◽  
Claus Rinner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
The Web

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) support collaborative decision-making in the public realm. PPGIS provide advanced communication, deliberation, and conflict resolution mecha nisms to engage diverse stakeholder groups. Many of the functional characteristics of Web 2.0 echo basic PPGIS functions including the authoring, linking, and sharing of volunteered geographic information. However, with the increasing popularity of geospatial applications on the Web comes a need to develop concepts for scalable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain tools. In this paper, we propose a cloud computing implementation of a scalable argumentation mapping tool. The tool also illustrates the opportunities of applying a Web 2.0 model to PPGIS. The searching, linking, authoring, tagging, extension, and signalling (SLATES) functions are associated with PPGIS functionality to produce a participatory GeoWeb tool for deliberative democracy.

scholarly journals A Scalable GeoWeb Tool for Argumentation Mapping

GEOMATICA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Sani ◽  
Claus Rinner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
The Web

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) support collaborative decision-making in the public realm. PPGIS provide advanced communication, deliberation, and conflict resolution mecha nisms to engage diverse stakeholder groups. Many of the functional characteristics of Web 2.0 echo basic PPGIS functions including the authoring, linking, and sharing of volunteered geographic information. However, with the increasing popularity of geospatial applications on the Web comes a need to develop concepts for scalable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain tools. In this paper, we propose a cloud computing implementation of a scalable argumentation mapping tool. The tool also illustrates the opportunities of applying a Web 2.0 model to PPGIS. The searching, linking, authoring, tagging, extension, and signalling (SLATES) functions are associated with PPGIS functionality to produce a participatory GeoWeb tool for deliberative democracy.

Deliberative Democracy and Public Dispute Resolution

2018 ◽  
pp. 709-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Susskind ◽  
Jessica Gordon ◽  
Yasmin Zaerpoor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Fact Finding

Deliberative democracy and public dispute resolution (PDR) have the same goal—to inform and determine the public interest—but they involve different skills and practices. This article considers the ways in which deliberative democratic approaches to policy-related decision-making can be supplemented with tools used in public dispute resolution—specifically, the use of an independent mediator, the well-developed technique of stakeholder assessment, and a new strategy called joint fact-finding, where stakeholders with different interests work together with outside experts to identify common assumptions, gather information together, and formulate and clarify opinions. All are designed to achieve fairer, wiser, more stable and more efficient outcomes.

scholarly journals Sociotope mapping: perceptions of public space at Ryerson University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Afonso Magalhaes
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mapping Tool

Sociotope mapping is a tool that has been used to identify values in public spaces, as defined by the public. By developing an original sociotope map using the sociotope map methodology, utilizing the technique created in Stockhom, Sweden, this research attempts to understand the values of public space within and around Ryerson University, while providing a critique on the utility of the tool in this context. The information collected from an online survey will be analyzed and visually displayed on a sociotope map. This may be utilized by the school administration, municipal planners, urban designers or landscape architecture professionals to understand what concerns may be provoked by the development of certain spaces and the resources valued by the public in the public realm. This project explores how different public spaces within the Ryerson University Campus are utilized and how useful is the sociotope mapping tool in inferring these values. keywords: planning; sociotope; parks planning; perceptions of space; engagement; public consultation.

Using the Web for Enhancing Decision-Making

2003 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
David King
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Assessment And Monitoring ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
The Web

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the use of the Internet to improve the reliability of information supplied to the United Nations (UN) from official sources in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). The focus of the chapter is that aid project failures in SSA need efficient project management, effective communication, and information openness to achieve socio-economic growth. The use of the Internet’s potential(s) in a way that will benefit society at large and in particular vulnerable groups needs critical examination within a wider framework of the actual needs and existing facilities of these communities. An interpretive evidence data collection method is used through questioning and interviews with stakeholder groups, validated by observation where possible. The importance of aid project performance, assessment, and monitoring in SSA is emphasised. The significance of public participation in decision-making processes is explored. This research also highlights the pragmatics of giving local people an international voice.

Deconstructing Smart Cities

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 1957-1969
Author(s):  
Michael Batty
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The City

This chapter defines the smart city in terms of the process whereby computers and computation are being embedded into the very fabric of the city itself. In short, the smart city is the automated city where the goal is to improve the efficiency of how the city functions. These new technologies tend to improve the performance of cities in the short term with respect to how cities function over minutes, hours or days rather than over years or decades. After establishing definitions and context, the author then explores questions of big data. One important challenge is to synthesize or integrate different data about the city's functioning and this provides an enormous challenge which presents many obstacles to producing coherent solutions to diverse urban problems. The chapter augments this argument with ideas about how the emergence of widespread computation provides a new interface to the public realm through which citizens might participate in rather fuller and richer ways than hitherto, through interactions in various kinds of decision-making about the future city. The author concludes with some speculations as to how the emerging science of smart cities fits into the wider science of cities.

Deconstructing Smart Cities

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Batty
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The City

This chapter defines the smart city in terms of the process whereby computers and computation are being embedded into the very fabric of the city itself. In short, the smart city is the automated city where the goal is to improve the efficiency of how the city functions. These new technologies tend to improve the performance of cities in the short term with respect to how cities function over minutes, hours or days rather than over years or decades. After establishing definitions and context, the author then explores questions of big data. One important challenge is to synthesize or integrate different data about the city's functioning and this provides an enormous challenge which presents many obstacles to producing coherent solutions to diverse urban problems. The chapter augments this argument with ideas about how the emergence of widespread computation provides a new interface to the public realm through which citizens might participate in rather fuller and richer ways than hitherto, through interactions in various kinds of decision-making about the future city. The author concludes with some speculations as to how the emerging science of smart cities fits into the wider science of cities.

Stakeholder prioritisation by Mayors and CEOs in infrastructure asset decisions

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavithra Siriwardhane ◽  
Dennis Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Chief Executive Officers ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Managerial Values ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Stakeholder Identification ◽  
Executive Officers

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate differences between the perceptions of the Mayors and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of local government authorities (LGAs) with regards to the attributes of power, legitimacy and urgency of different identified stakeholder groups regarding their claims and needs concerning infrastructure assets. Stakeholder groups are categorised into those at the public level and those at higher-tier government level. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 420 LGAs throughout Australia was undertaken using an instrument developed from the constructs in Mitchell et al.’s (1997) theory of stakeholder identification and salience. Findings – The results first reveal that there are more similarities than differences between the perceptions of the Mayors and CEOs with regard to stakeholder attributes of different stakeholder groups. Second, both Mayors and CEOs view stakeholders in infrastructure decision-making as largely “expectant dependant”. However, there is evidence that some biased priority may be accorded to the “public stakeholder” category over “higher-tier government” category because the CEO’s perception of the power of “public” stakeholders, together with the Mayor’s managerial values, is significantly positively related to their perceptions of the salience of these “public” stakeholders, but not “higher-tier government” stakeholders. However the results of the analysis change in the combined sample of the Mayor and CEO, making both categories of stakeholders as “definitive” in infrastructure decision-making. Research limitations/implications – The results of this study are subject to the usual limitation of mail surveys, including biases that can arise in respondents’ rating based on their perceptions. The findings have implications for the process of infrastructure decision-making in local governments. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the literature, providing evidence on how Mayors and CEOs of local governments prioritise the needs, interests and claims of different stakeholders with respect to infrastructure assets.

Fostering the Participation of Companies in Standardization

2020 ◽  
pp. 252-278
Author(s):  
Christophe Sene
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
The Public

Standardization is one source of informal rules that regulate the public realm: standards are not legally-binding, but, as soft law instruments, they influence the governance, ethics, and conduct of companies. Standardization brings unique benefits to companies in term of knowledge, credibility, and risk reduction by bringing accountability and predictability. To foster active participation of companies in standardization, higher and continuous education in standardization is essential to build mutual understanding between companies and the standardization world since decision making in the former is a relatively quick top-down hierarchical process while in the latter time-consuming consensus-building is the norm. The concept of Student Standardization Societies (SSS) is introduced as the best way to promote standardization in the long term, and advice is given for the practical implementation of SSS and their relationship with Official Standardization Organizations.

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