[SDI-AsiaPacific] WUN / UCGIS Virtual Seminars in PPGIS (October-December 2007)

[Kate Lance]

Message via UCGIS listserve on behalf of David DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University.
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Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) / UCGIS Virtual Seminar in PPGIS (October-December 2007)
Introduction: Aims and Objectives
The WUN Global GIS Academy’s 2007 seminar series is intended to reflect the growing importance of public participation GIS. As usual it will enable participants to access contributions from some of the best-known names in the field, but in addition we hope and expect that provision of an international dimension to the discussions will add greatly to the experience.
Following the seminar series should enable participants to:
- follow current literature in the field;
- compare and contrast participatory GIS, public participation GIS, Internet GIS and Web GIS information technologies; 
- understand the advantages and disadvantages of different research approaches for assessing PPGIS use.
Who can participate
The seminar is open to faculty and students in universities that are part of the WUN, together with members of the Quantitative Methods Research and GIScience Research Groups of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Universities in the UCGIS, and other interested parties.  
List of dates & topics
All seminars will commence at 1600 UK time, initially BST then GMT. Please check carefully that you have the correct local time.
1 Wed. 17th Oct. PPGIS: Who are the 'public' and what are they 'participating' in? 
2 Wed. 24th Oct. Designing participatory GIS/SDSS 
3 Wed.  7th Nov. Unpacking the complexities of PPGIS 
4 Wed. 14th Nov. Critical GIS: Methods for Exploring PGIS and PPGIS Use 
5 Wed. 28th Nov. Quantifying the qualitative: capturing environmental perception in space/place problems 
6 Wed. 5th Dec. Reflections on and Directions for PPGIS Research 
 
The seminars commence at 4pm UK local time. Instructions on how to access them are also available at the website http://www.wun.ac.uk/ggisa/seminars.html. The organizers strongly recommend that you ‘enter’ the virtual seminar room in good time for the advertised start and hope that you have at least ‘played’ with the client’s interface to understand how the interactions it offers can be used.

More information can be found on the WUN Global GIS Academy website: http://www.wun.ac.uk/ggisa/


       
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