"Not So" Volunteered Geographic Information

Last week, a bad flu prevented me from attending the International Citizen Cartography meeting and presenting some of my latest work. With the presence of many people involved in activist mapping and DYI geopolitics projects, I had planned to start from Michael Goodchild’s notion of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) on the emergence of geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals, to discuss the greater presence of unvoluntarily generated geographic data. In the talk “Not So Volunteered Geographic Information“, I present my method to analysis these new kinds of citizen generated data, and use my work to discuss the induced opportunities, limitations and concerns. Since, I could not present on stage, I have intended to fill out the slides with extensive notes (slides with notes).

A process to generate value from digital footprints

Thanks to Pablo de Soto for his invitation.

Why do I blog this: In this talk, I intend to link the work produced in my PhD thesis with my current endeavors at Lift lab.