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- 1. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 1 Accounting for People in Earth Observation Andrea Giacomelli info@pibinko.org Workshop on the Socio-Economic Benefits from the Use of Earth Observations, Ispra, Joint Research Centre 11-13th July 2011. This presentation is released under a Creative Commons Licence
- 2. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 2 Contents • Perspective • Challenges • Proposals Note: we will be omitting any “non-people” issues for the time being
- 3. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 3 Perspective
- 4. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 4 Time frame 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 2018 polimi crs4 Corporate 1 L2 pibinko Pibinko.org Attivarti.org Pibinko “2”
- 5. Context 20112006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Since 1993: Env. Data mgmt. ; GIS Since 1996: web Since 2002 – project and staff mgmt.
- 6. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 6 Case (hi)stories • SITAI – web GIS for industrial site selection (1997-2000) • The GIS Skills in Sardinia Survey (2000) • Geographic web log analysis (2000-2002) • Aligning public-sector SDIs to private-sector “SDIs” (2003-2010) • Palla 21: from Tuscany to Chicago and back (2007) • M(‘)appare Milano (2008) – VGI+communication • BuioMetria Partecipativa (participatory dark sky quality monitoring) (2008 – to date) • The INSPIRE data specification process (2010 – 2012) • Between dusk and dawn (2010) – global photo contest
- 7. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 7 Multi-band Earth Observation
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- 9. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 9
- 10. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 10 Roles citizen student professional Civil servant “retired” education Private sector experts research people politicians artists clerics
- 11. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 11 Challenges
- 12. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 12 Challenges (1/2) • Value and values • “Pride and prejudice” • Habits / complacency •Language+lexicon+culture: these are not “global” …we are attempting to address problems on scales which are typically broader than “cultural scales” •Resources: after the 2008-2009-2010-2011 ?... crisis, resources allocated to our tasks seem not to have increased.
- 13. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 13 Value and values • It is difficult to agree upon a value if you don’t share values • Today, in the “developed world”, it is difficult to share values • Internet does not make this simpler (while it is a positive development) • Values apply not only to “ends”, but also to “means”
- 14. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 14 Challenges (2/2) • (Administrative) boundaries -> scope boundaries • Data/tools/people/process imbalance • Overloads (of: data, tools, processes) • Different views of the same picture • Web 2.0: friend or foe ? Focussing on terms closer to EO / information technology
- 15. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 15 Proposals
- 16. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 16 Proposals – level I • As a minimum: you are one of the people • What are socio-economic benefits of EO to you ? • Answer this question by 31-Jul-2011 (write to info@pibinko.org)
- 17. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 17 Proposals – level II • Shift from “you” to a wider community • Raise the same question • Define a concerted answer in a defined time • Share this with the rest of the world Note: we are doing this since 2007 with a community now in the range of 5000 Note: major social networks are not used in this exercise •Apply the a “role sanity check” to your system
- 18. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 18 Proposal – level III • “Stop” (re-modulate) investments on “new stuff” for five years. • Re-allocate budgets • 33% to “history” (recover “depth”) • 33% to “geography” (assure “breadth”) • 33% keep it there – it will be of use later • 0.5% - celebrations • 0.5% - reward for interdisciplinarity • Funds assigned 50% via “peer review”/competitive schemes; 50% via “riffa” Challenge: how do you keep “investors” happy while the investment is stopped ?
- 19. Accounting for People in Earth Observation 19 Conclusions/contacts/questions • When are you leaving Italy ? • info@pibinko.org – www.pibinko.org • www.attivarti.org • Germans/Austrians/Swiss: let’s talk now • Free/open source models exist