Richard Kingston (University of Manchester) Mapping For Sustainable Communities 170608

Richard Kingston School of Environment & Development University of Manchester [email_address] www.ppgis.manchester.ac.uk Mapping for who? access issues and the digital divide Mapping for Sustainable Communities Workshop UCL, 17 th June

Background
12 years experience developing web-based PPGIS,
Developing, designing and implementing tools to assist public participation in real environmental decision making problems
technology there to complement not replace a suite of public participation methods
1 st ever on-line PPGIS mirrored the Planning for Real process in digital form
http://www.ppgis.manchester.ac.uk/projects/slaithwaite/
other projects, publications and links are here:
http://www.ppgis.manchester.ac.uk/

UK Citizen to local authority contact by channel 2006
Low take-up was seen as one of the main barriers to successful implementation.
UK came bottom in a Eurostat survey of take-up of e-government services by businesses, and below the EU average in terms of take-up by individuals (EC 2005).
Source data: IDeA 2006

Volumes of contact to LA service across all channels, Jan-Mar 2008
Majority of people who access LA services are those least likely to have Internet access

Internet take-up in the UK by socio-economic group and age
40% of UK households do not have home Internet access
socio-economic status would appear to be the most significant divider in terms of internet take-up, followed by age (Ofcom, 2007)

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