YouthMetre: Open Geographic Information and People Politics

Open Geographic Information and People

Politics

http://www.youthmetre.eu

Karl Donert, President EUROGEO

Open Geographic Information and People Politics

1. People’s politics, participative Geography and the “open revolution”

2. Engaging young people through geographic information: YouthMetre Project

3. Conclusions

People’s Politics

YouthMetre Training

http://youthmetre.eu/training/

Online resources / training materials - v. soon

Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017

Training for NGOs - January 2018Using

Geographic

Information

Participatory Geography

Geographers in Policy (Parliamentary Assembly)

Geographers in policy

Geographers in policy (SDGs)

Geographers in policy (UN)

Eurobarometer Surveys

• Examined active engagement of youth

http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_408_en.pdf

Youth increasingly distanced from

policy making and decisions

European Youth Strategy

EYS (2010-8) has two main objectives:

•Provide more and equal opportunities for young people in education and the job market

•Encourage young people to actively participate in society

European Youth Strategy

• EU Youth Strategy, agreed by EU Ministers, sets out a framework for cooperation covering 2010-2018

• EU Member States have overall responsibility for their own youth policy (subsidiarity) i.e. not the EU

• Funding to local / regional government

YouthMetre Challenge

http://youthmetre.eu/training/

Online resources / training materials - v. soon

Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017

Training for NGOs - January 2018MACRO level

MESO level

MiCRO level

Young people are heard

Young people give their opinion

Views taken into account

Involved in decision making

Participatory Geography

Barriers to participation

Wikification of GIS ….. by the masses

• First used in 2005 (Boulos, 2005)

• Volunteered Geographic Information (Goodchild, 2007)

Boulos, M.N.K., 2005. Web GIS in practice III: creating a simple interactive map of England's strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control. International journal of health geographics, 4(1), p.22.

Goodchild, M.F., 2007. Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal, 69(4), pp.211-221

Bonney, R., Cooper, C. and Ballard, H., 2016. The theory and practice of Citizen Science: Launching a new journal. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 1(1).

Finquelievich, S., 2014. From Cultural Consumers to Cultural Prosumers: Citizens’ Co-creation of Cultural Changes in Information Society. Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations in Information Society, p.137.

Participation in Citizen Science

Barriers to participation

Maps and interactive visualisations helps cities decode their toughest challenges https://t.co/3Jmbc0ZMJC

Empower youth to have an impact on EU youth policy

http://www.youthmetre.eu

http://eryica.org/page/principles-online-youth-information

15 Study Groups

http://youthmetre.eu/study-groups/

Research & data sets

http://youthmetre.eu/policy-research/

YouthMetreKey features:

•a dashboard of European data on Youth

•a database of good practice initiatives put in place by European public bodies

•Crowdmap of proposed initiatives

•a high profile launch event

•training of multipliers

http://youthmetre.eu/youthmetre/

Youth Development IndexBased on 87 indicators Related to youth well-being(NUTS 3 data where available)

http://knowto.org/ym/

Data Dashboard

Good Practices

http://arcg.is/1TAbmn7

http://youthmetre.eu/study-group-surveys/

Crowdmap: Youth ideas

NEED TO CREATE DIALOGUE

GeoCitizen Community

Process:Orient - BrowseIdentify - CollectShare - DiscussPropose - Rate Implement - Monitor

information

generate ideas - discussion

agree ideas

implementation

GeoCitizen: an engagement platform

European Commission (2015), Creating Value Through Open Data http://tinyurl.com/j6qypoe

YouthMetre Training

http://youthmetre.eu/training/

Online resources / training materials - v. soon

Non formal learning approaches

Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017

Training for NGOs - January 2018

Conclusion: What Impact? (Graham et al., 2016)

• rejuvenating democracy

• reforming corrupt institutions

• holding business and government to account

• improving the quality of data available

• changing relationships between data producers, data users and institutions

Graham M, De Sabbata S and Zook MA (2016), Towards a study of information geographies, Geo, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/geo2.8/abstract

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