China-ASEAN Advanced Academy on Ocean Law and Management
National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCSS)
Inaugural Semi-Annual Program
2016 Session 24-31 January
2. Outline
Ocean Governance requires information – no one
government/agency can manage it all
Needed for decisions and actions
Needed to communicate with others
What is information?
text, data, images, maps, etc.
Examples of Online tools
COINAtlantic (http://coinatlantic.ca)
Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Technology helps – but Nations and agencies must work
together for effective Coastal and Ocean Governance
3. Ocean Governance
You can’t manage what you don’t know
No one person can manage all of the information
Information management technology can help support
Oceans Governance
Requires two-way flow of information
Technology is not sufficient – agencies and individuals must
work together to access the required information
4. 2010 Fall Report of the
Canadian Federal Commissioner
of the Environment and
Sustainable Development
"Solid, objective, and accessible information is
essential to identify and respond to the
quickening pace and complexity of
environmental change, in Canada and globally.”
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_201012_e_34435.html
5. Information
Text – reports, documents, e-mails, pdf
Photographs – hard copy, digital
Maps – hard copy, on-line, GoogleEarth
Social Media – facebook, blogs, tweets
Other??
13. Summary
Information management & flow depends on:
• Presentation (map, text, etc.)
• Audience
• Language (cultural, technical, etc)
THIS REQUIRES WORK TO BE SUCCESSFUL
14. Spatial Information
Hard copy maps
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
GPS
MapQuest
GoogleEarth/GoogleMaps
COINAtlantic
15. 1. Describe your organization
2. Education others
3. Improved decision-making & Planning
4. Represent geographic jurisdiction
How can Spatial Information help
your
ocean governance?
Applications
16.
17.
18. Avon River, Nova Scotia 1966
2. Education others
3. Improve Decision-making & planning
Applications
Reprinted from: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12202985330
Water
Highway
19. Applications2. Education others
3. Improve Decision-making & planning
Reprinted from: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12202985330
Location of
site visit
June 19, 2015
Mud
“New Land”
Avon River, Nova Scotia 1992
Highway
20. Applications2. Education others
3. Improve Decision-making & planning
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.00832,-64.127621&z=13&t=h&hl=en
Location of
site visit
June 19, 2015
Mud
Avon River, Nova Scotia 2010
Highway
22. Tools
Create and publish geospatial information
Search, find and look at on-line geospatial information
Share and collaborate using geospatial information for
ocean governance
http://coinatlantic.tools/csu/gallery.php
28. Egocentric
Humans visually compare distance of objects in relation to
themselves, Relative distance- distances between observer
and object
We also try to place our location when we see a map,
therefore when have an information booth up with a large
map, people will be drawn in to place themselves and then
they can be attached with information
1. Education and awareness
29. Egocentric – cont.
students come to us having been "exposed to a broad range of
information daily ... [and that so] far our educational system
has failed to take seriously and to adequately respond to
the fact that so much of this information is in visual form"
(Hill, 2004, p. 108).
- 1960s and 1970s information was based on writing
- The future of education is moving towards a marriage
between writing and visuals – such as maps
30. Summary
• Use maps to:
• educate,
• engage,
• facilitate planning,
• clarify jurisdiction,
• etc.
• Many on line sources of information:
• GoogleMaps
• GoogleEarth
• etc.
31. Information Access
You can’t do it alone
Modern technology can help
Technology is not enough
Agencies and individuals need to
participate
Oceans Governance requires two-way flow
of information
32. Web 1.0
Hyperlinks between webpages began with the release of
the WWW to the public in 1993:
Static pages with infrequent changes
Daily, weekly or monthly
One way flow of information
Prepared by a single author
Viewed by others
Communication through e-mail addresses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
33. Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate:
participatory information sharing
interoperability,
user-centered design
collaborative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
34. Web 2.0
Constantly changing information
By-the-minute, hourly
Two way flow of information
The author contributes information
The participants contribute information
Multi-person Communication
Blogs
Comments
Questions
Contributions
Posts
etc., etc., etc.
35. Web 2.0 Tools
Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
“Speak Up for the Blue” – Andrew Lewin
Twitter: http://twitter.com/
Elizabeth de Santo, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at
Franklin & Marshall College - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Blogs
Etc., etc., etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
36. Web 3.0 – The Future???
Semantic Web
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
personalization
"the computer is generating new information", rather
than humans
37. Technology Helps – but People
Network
Atlantic Coastal Zone Information
Steering Committee (ACZISC) example:
Federal Departments
Fisheries & Natural Resources
Coast Guard
Environment
Defense
Provincial Departments (N.S., N.B., P.E.I. & N.&L.)
Fisheries
Environment
NGO
University
Private Sector
39. ASEAN + 1
China-ASEAN Academy on Ocean Law and Governance
Face-to-Face meeting
Potential Alumni network
Future courses
Please send your mobile-phone video to someone
outside this room
Child/Parent
Supervisor
Colleague
?????????
40. Information for
Oceans Governance
You can’t manage what you don’t know
No one person can manage all of the information
Information management technology can help support
Ocean Governance
Technology is not sufficient – agencies and individuals must
work together to access the required information – e.g.,
Coastal and Oceans Networks.
Let us begin with a little exercise. Please read this fact.
This Map conveys the same message in a more powerful way.
Therefore for educational and marketing purposes of any issue, specifically environment because that is why we are all here today, there must be a marriage between words, such as our fact laid out in the beginning, and visuals, like our map. These should no longer be seen has separate entities, but allow us to more efficiently get our point across. And can be used to compliment each other
To further reiterate this. Now lets think about the difference between the word apple and its image //and say what is the difference between the word apple and the image of an apple.. The word apple is just a collection of symbols strung together to convey the meaning of apple and the image is one symbol straightforward and definitely quickly and effectively gets the message across. They are both means to describe a physical apple, just one gets the point across faster… Our education system has been a bit slow in this initiative, however the introduction of visuals into essays to convey ideas is becoming important and does not have to be a bad thing…. It will enable us to enhance our ability to educate and to learn
So just as a side note, I’m sure all of you have heard this before, but humans are Egocentric. When humans see an object, such as a tree, they will visually compare distance of objects in relation to themselves, Relative distance- distances between observer and object. So knowing this… we can return to our map
In looking at this map, most individuals will be drawn towards their own location. We also try to place our location when we see a map, therefore when have an information booth up with a large map, people will be drawn in to place themselves and then they can be attached with information. And in looking at this map that is representing a 3D space, it helps bring across the understanding of spatial relationships.
http://metrocosm.com/the-bizarre-relationship-between-china-and-maps/
Why are maps and visuals applicable to your organization? There are many applications of maps including the usual navigation, weather forecasting and storage of information as a more spatial reference. I have chosen the applications that resonate the most with environmental NGOs.
These applications include:
1. Using maps to profile and market your organization, show your zone of influence etc
2. Education and awareness on issues (most of your organizations probably are taking part in activities that promote the awareness of certain issues)
3. Leverage Funding sources (use visuals in proposals to get across your message quickly and easily, entices reader to read more)
Decision-making and planning
Finally maps can be also useful when trying to determine jurisdiction, ownership and assessment over regions this is important for environmental issues to
This is a slide showing after the causeway. As you can see it choked the river, creating a lot of siltation, destroying fish habitat and popluations, and creating basically mudflats and terrestrial land. Not to mention, completely destroying the tidal bore, it is now reduced to a ripple.
This is a slide showing after the causeway. As you can see it choked the river, creating a lot of siltation, destroying fish habitat and popluations, and creating basically mudflats and terrestrial land. Not to mention, completely destroying the tidal bore, it is now reduced to a ripple.
An example of the importance of maps with respect to determining jurisdiction, Ownership and Assessment is the Marine Cadastre currently being developed in connection with COINAtlantic. The marine cadastre is a visual map that attempts to define ownership of marine environments, as there is a large discrepancies and fuzzy lines when we reach the terrestrial-sea interface, which is where the land and sea meet. This is due to many reasons, one including detailed coastal information is considered to be a matter of national security and its data is not available to the public and the many stakeholders. Another reason is the matter of the many stakeholders, which can not seem to collaborate to determine the overlaps and gaps within the jurisdictions. It is also technically difficult to connect land and sea data, because their data is captured at different scales. The ocean is on a smaller scale, while the land data is on a much larger scale to be more detailed and complex. The development of this seamless SDI will be a powerful information resource for management in various areas of resource management: fisheries habitat management, pollution monitoring and control, shorne erosion etc.
Humans are ego centric,
Education in the 60s and 70s were very based on writing and speak aloud, however people today have become so bombarded with a broad range of information daily in the media, television, internet, even just billboards when walking down the street that humans can now process information more quickly and easily. For example, small clips in the news such as a comment from a lawyer coming out of court has decreased from 20 second clips to 6 seconds. Humans can process information that quickly and also can quickly become bored.