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Maptivism: Maps for activism transparency and engagement

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Maptivism: Maps for activism transparency and engagement
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It is estimated that as much as 80% of data contains geo-referenced information. Maps have a long history and since its early days maps have been used for many types of activism. Digital maps allow easy ways to present large amounts of data and reduce complexity. Activists around the world have found creative ways to use maps for advocacy. The session will showcase examples from around the world and highlight different approaches to maptivism.
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I speak in German. I'm sorry. I have to change. Why didn't you just say anything?
Okay Okay, okay, okay, okay? I just had some I just asked around some questions about mapping and I'm not gonna repeat that, but I'm sorry okay I speak now from now on in English and Okay, I have to admit. I'm from Frankfurt Frankfurt is famous for the apple wine, which is the rest of Germany hates
but that for this I Work in development aid for the past six years I worked for a German technical corporation GTZ and work for different now as an independent for different organizations And I live three years in Egypt and Egypt is very interesting because most I would say the most innovative digital
Activist come from Egypt not only but they're very amazing activists there in Egypt and Also, I worked in different projects, and I always I got to know very much The difficulty in challenges in these countries especially because there are not as many data and not as many maps and overfuse impossible
Information available as it is in Germany, and I will come later to that Thirdly I'm a knowledge activist or in this regards. I I joined this Wonderful book project from the editor is so Korean kinesh He's also here in the audience, and I wrote a chapter about it, and I really like that project So I have to promote it here with
Okay, I have to say I'm not a geographic information expert I very much all detected Lee went into this topic, and I love it because it is so much Straightforward and everybody can go into it. That's I have to say that right from the start, so I might make mistakes It's very possible But I'm a mapper. I'll come to that later on when I present a bit about open street map
I'm one of these guys who run around with GPS either with the iPhone or something else and look at buildings and Document things and streets and construct maps. It's a fantastic thing to do. I can recommend it to everybody So let's get going um I stole that sentence a map
worth a thousand words Because I think that is really the most interesting aspect about it that it is so much about visualization and so much about Reducing complexity, and I have a nice example. It's not a digital map It's the map of the world anti spanking league spanking you know
Child knows it's fantastic one look at it, and you can understand it. You will see right away. They don't seem to be many members We have Scandinavia we have Germany and down there we have Chile So why maps why are maps so interesting? I mean they are very different opinions about it and very different things
I just want to summarize for About them I think they give orientation. They are very different of text reading and trying to make sense out of it They're quite more concrete and give you an orientation on things They reduce as I said before complexity. We are dealing with more more data. Now. We have more more data available and
Maps are fantastic to visualize challenges problems different causes They can represent very different perspectives on issues. They don't have to but they can I come later to that and That helps. I think very much to again present complex issues And I think they bring things in context
They show how much I'm Interested by it or how much I be part of the problem or not the problem or neighborhood is part of the problem I will show that in different examples So let's go into some first mapping examples I mean you have seen probably many, but I try to choose some interesting ones this one is Mundo
It's a wonderful map project. I find about theft Petty theft it's a project where their map feels across Germany for Let's say stealing or getting fruits and vegetables a very nice initiative. I find Another completely different one is the toilet vada It's New York City. It's the idea to
Yeah Collect different possible locations for toilets, and there's also a rating system, so the public library has only three stars I don't know whether it has the toilet paper or not But of course it's not new I mean maps have always been used for different kinds of activism or different kind of politics
All kinds of different means and I want to present you one example. It's very famous you might know it There's a wonderful Wikipedia page about it, and that's John Snow's discovery It's back in 1854 There was a cholera disease, and it wasn't really clear Where does this cholera come from or let's say how does it spread within the city?
It was thought that it was about bad air or but it was really unclear and John Snow wanted to find it out So he analyzed it in more in depth, and they walked around the different households in interviews And that's the map he drawed from this interviews He did and through it he find out found out that basically the cholera spreads among water pumps
So it was very much about water contamination, so I think it's a very impressive example. How maps can be used This is the typical kind of way you're probably Used to maps paper maps very normal handy in your hand you can look at it. This is from France Francisco now This is also San Francisco. There's a digital map and it's about a campaign
For same for same-sex marriages, but here quite controversial I come later on to that once again. It shows the people who donate against the same-sex marriage law So it shows exactly in which three different people live and how much they donate to it, so you see here mr.
Pooey and Knuck know we can cook how much he donated I come later that I mean the privacy issue is a huge dimension Here of course, but I mean I remember last year Mary Joyce was here with digital actors, and she said like I think privacy is very different dealt with in Germany
But here in the US you know and so I think it is very different of course But maps can be done from everybody maps don't have to be digital that can be very very different This is one wonderful example the stockport emotion map where Christian note basically draw this experience the stockport is in the UK where he walked around the city
It's kind of a diary and you can see in the far left me drunk lost Freddy, and he wait his way around Now I make a bit of a jump I want to before I come to maptivism and two different examples I want to describe the different dimensions of getting these maps together and to make it such a campaign and
I want to describe it back again in developing countries, and I called it no maps land This is one of the biggest slums or informal areas in Kenya and Nairobi It's called Kibera, and there's a wonderful project going on
through the open street map initiative open street map to explain it for those who don't know it it's Like Wikipedia, but not for content basically it is For a map for a free open available map in the world and with thousands with thousands available volunteers who contribute to it and
This initiative is about this informal area in Kibera, and they what they did the past half year they gathered they made a project down there in the slum 90 informal area and Engage the people at this from this area and ask them to map their own area to map it and show
What's it all about but not only about streets? It's about Hospitals the health places bars Cemeteries all kind of places and it's gonna be such just to start they're gonna continue mapping it and it's very important I will come to it later on I think maps are nothing very little without data and
the wonderful thing about open street map is that it doesn't it doesn't just Put the usual things into maps it can go in all directions like it's open to everybody to map all kinds of different things and An interesting jump to Google This is what Google has offered from this informal area nothing
I don't want to criticize them because Google is one of the few companies who done a lot in Africa They have done a very interesting engagement, but you can see open approach and the commercial interest so that's very different What open sigma also has done recently or and very nice initiative worldwide of volunteers is in the head doing the Haiti?
Earthquake this is the map before the earthquake you can see there's basically almost nothing just a few streets I think it's very bright. You don't see as these little streets and After the earthquake happened lots of volunteers came together They were crisis camps called they were in London in different places all the world and they tried to
volunteer to make the map much better and the outcome is this map and it is the best map Available fighty no other map is this good this precise It was very important for disaster response for emergency to have such a map to react to many causes who Shaheen he played a very important role it as a disaster alert as well and
Just to mention did you know that? The best country of open street maps covered is Germany. They're the most volunteers in this country. It's quite interesting Okay, let's continue the
travel to Other means and possibilities to go into mapping and to get an overview you might think of what the heck is that now? It's an it's an equipment for a kite Trachan to put that with a gas to get basically high-altitude photos spatial images and
Jeffrey Warren is doing that and it's a very nice project It's called crass roots mapping and what he did he went to in formal area slum in Peru and out of these kite He got this kind of photos not he again. It was those people who lived there. He actually did it it's very very important to give some very strong empowerment to people to have a map from their area and
To discuss things planning politics. It's very important to have such maps Another very nice mean I think is crowdsourcing. You can call it very different means I just call it crowdsourcing in this regard to get the data for such campaigns And now I jump back to Germany. I saw this recent example, which I think is very very nice
It calls via map org and it's by the social hidden and I think it's a fantastic boat check where they basically Want people to contribute to barrier-free map of Germany meaning putting in locations? where there is very very of free access like cafes and bars or where is not and
I think this is what I come out. So later on is that there's a great potential that everybody's contributing to such maps That's an example. You might know from the UK It's very famous fix my street, but it's again this dimension that it opens
such an initiative to citizen So what it is about is that citizen can? Complain about issues such as a hole in a street or there's trash and things like that They can put it in the website and they can also use their mobile phone To document that issue and the nice thing is it's automatically uploaded to its once it's uploaded to the website
It's been shown on the map and there's an email directly going automatic to the public institution responsible and they show exactly Which institution has reacted which not how fast and things like that? of course the mobile phone plays an increasing role in that and
This is also a crowdsourcing project it's driven by the Ushahidi technology And here it is in Africa Where there are laws that? Pharmacies and and hospitals are obliged to have a certain stock of medicine, but They don't necessarily have that and this isn't this is an effort or an initiative to show
transparently where there are not these stocks and where they are so people can with down the pharmacy and The stocks are all that medicine is unavailable They can put that is to their mobile phone and it's been sent by SMS to the map and it's been transparently shown I think it's a very interesting projects, and it is has many other means to show such
To use it for different other kind of projects am I too fast everything okay? So now I come to this topic of open source intelligence. I find it very interesting although the
Title as I understand it or research that the concept was finally first coined by U.s.. Military kind of their efforts to not only use their secret or let's say their their central intelligency their secret information But really trying to get more use out of the open or publicly available information
I think it is very important in time that The citizens themselves use a lot more of this public information And this is the whole day we talked about open government and open data. You know that citizens themselves take the take the approach and try to make more out of this available data and
A funny example for instance is by floating sheep They they took the Google location From the bars all over the u.s.. And that they calculated out of this the beer belly of America So they show what they're where the most bars. It's kind of funny. I'm of course It's not very accurate, but I thought it's quite a good example
So and data is this especially interesting because it contains that is an estimate about 80% your reference information so we can use a lot of that data available for maps or for different kind of geo services and
A nice example recently made. I don't know whether Stefan Verma is here. Yeah, you are wonderful is this Magnificent example from Berlin. I hope I explained it now the right way You can see there's a shadow map and there's kind of a shadow over the map And there's a kind of clear area in the middle of the map and what it says is basically
It's he took public transport data From Berlin and you can see in this location the middle in the balloon or wherever you live and what you type in You can see what you can reach and within 15 minutes with public transport. It's not like a circle It has different dots, and you basically if you move somewhere
To new area you can directly or very easily see What you can reach within 15 minutes for public transport? Again, it's an example which you can extend to many other topics So I said it many times before But we need more open data, and I think this day it was very often discussed
I found it very interesting is there was this discussion before with the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and She said when she was asked to do more in this arena She said yeah, but the NCAT Commission is now there in place And they were gonna have a midterm report in 2011, and they're gonna have a full report in 2012
So we're basically gonna wait that for that, and I think this is this is the dilemma. I think we really have to Ourself put this data more more together or force them or pressure them to put it out And one such way is open address almost like open street map It's the same idea that you gather in from a different kind of geo data
You want maybe you wonder what why should we do that or isn't that available? I can tell you no. It's not available It's extremely difficult if you do such applications You it is very difficult to get such data I'll later present you Frankfurter style in which one of my projects to get a street register or Street
Of Frankfurt just the list of the streets and file which I can use it's impossible I can't get it. It was it was a PDF file, which was a nightmare to get all the data out of it It's really really difficult. It's not available, and I requested the the office in Frankfurt. They said we sure we can get it This will cost this and this and this they're all and you cannot use in the Internet
There are a lot of tools, and I just want to show you two tools where you can yourself start Experimenting with it. That's very important. It's not difficult Mixing maps and data is quite easy if you want to experiment with it
And your comments is one such an effective is very nice It has a lot of data available, but you can upload any excel spreadsheet whatever you want and can start yourself It sounds a bit geeky. I know but it's quite easy, and I mean most of you probably have to deal with excellent Excel Spreadsheets anyway another one is Google Fusion which is very powerful
You can really upload huge massive amounts of data And you can get make heat maps for instance in all kinds of nice visualizations of course with both It's always important. It's your data. Be careful what you upload of course So let's come to maptivism map and activism. This is a nice project
It's From New York City from the New York City Civil no civil Liberty Union now they're right, and it's about camera about surveillance So what they did they mapped all the cameras around New York so because actually it's funny
One activist put another map out. There's one Way left in New York, which you can walk where you're not filmed So this is the last he and he mapped it out, so that's the only way you can walk to Manhattan not, New York Manhattan, I'm sorry another nice example again
We I think we can quickly with one look or quite good understand the this issue it's by the West African trade hub from USA they did a map about trading routes in Western Africa and Trade is extremely difficult by sea to the Seaport no problem, but once it goes into that the country you will have tons of obstacles, and you can see worse worse
and there all kinds of Barriers and all kinds of stops for bribes and everything and I think this maps very clearly presents the problem very nicely Another issue another very nice example is this from the cedar Grove Institute for sustainable communities?
and Here what happened is that? There was always a suspicion that there was that the water was unequally distributed in the city But it wasn't really clear was it or not. You know it was like some people said it's I'm not So this Institute they went around and made interviews in different households asking about the water situation
And out of these information they put the map together And you can see I hope is it visible for you that basically the water pipeline is between racial Alliance you know afro-americans basically have no access or very little access and
What Americans have the access and I think is also it this triggered the change in this community? This map was the the key of pushing forward this issue and the problem make the change possible Okay, now. I come to the project. I'm doing for the past month
This is Frank for the Staunton What we did here basically is that we we used the data available from local commodities odds by later and They discussing in each just district all kinds of political topics. It's not big politics. It's about the pedestrian walk
It's about trash bins. It's about a new Tree and all these things, but the thing is it's something local I think it's something what matters to people a lot because it's in their area it's this hyper local kind of approach which you have a lot in the UK, but very few here and We read it out. So you have a map there, and you also have a street
Directory the idea is that he basically you can Easily zoom down or come to your street. We can see what happens in my neighborhood. What's going on? What's discussed? They have it available right now the city, but it is a huge database Very complicated to access and here you can email you can get an email subscription so you quickly can
Subscribe to it and get informed the minute something happens in your area What is open? What do you mean? The platform is Drupal, which is an open source
platform What do you mean exactly? The difficulties of course if the city or if in these initiatives they would provide data Which is very easy to to generate very easy to digest then you can easily put it in every city
The problem is every city has a complete different website a complete different way of presenting their data That is the most tricky thing and that makes the most work But the funny thing is when we were finished with it after months I now got the information from somebody who knows the the from the database here the database D The company who did it, and they said oh yeah, we have RSS feed and XML, but
We just don't turn it on You might know RSS XML means that this kind of data. You can really this is raw data You can really use easily you know because it is specified Whereas now it is HTML and PDF, and it's very difficult to read that out and to make sense out of it But we didn't want to leave it like that what we did is
We Want citizen to themselves put in initiatives. It's very experimental. We don't know where this is going to go to But here you see one initiative from Richard, and he just basically wants a pedestrian walk in the riddle hammer lunch class and He's also referring to an already a special kind of for lag or document where this was discussed
and he wonders why it is not changed and What we offer there is also that people can use a map and can draw in their initiative so they can exactly pinpoint where they want to have it and how they want to have it and We hope that this will trigger engagement that we hope that we don't use only we don't give the information
But we also have the people network with each other they find each other for different topics and after Let's say now two months. It's quite nice that we have some initiatives. It goes slow because of course It's a local area only and the thing is just like as you might know from the internet studies They are just not so many people online, and they're not so many people
Expecting something like this in the internet in Germany It's just a slow development absolutely compared to other countries like the UK or the states So let's sum it up The Why I find I think maps and maptivism and in these possibilities of visualization
Why they are so interesting is because it's recognition I can recognize. Oh, that's the place. I'm talking about that's that's concrete It's something like it's gonna be different of than reading a text A feeling of connection, it's around the corner like in the last example. You know it really means something to me or it
It matters to me or should matter to me, and it's connecting the dots the topics and complex issues I didn't put it many examples now not pretty examples of layers and complex geo things There's a lot of wonderful thing out there Where you have different kind of layers and you can basically you can look at the political side of an issue And you can look on the environmental side or the common side
I think there's a lot happening and it's gonna be very interesting stuff And of course it's I hope we trigger and I hope that these maps then get a trigger engagement that this really has to be changed and That these helpfulness regard and in the future I
Put this slide up from Andrew Turner Which I like very much. It's a bit funny. It's basically RSS feed icons all over the place But what I want to say with it I mean augmented reality was already discussed the idea that you walk around with your mobile phone and You pinpoint it on a building and you get the information nice for tourists, but I mentioned you have
consumer interest data there So you go to the streets and you look at pinpoint your mobile phone at the supermarket And it's will be not telling you the products, but it might tell you oh this supermarket is still Selling the boycotted products, which all the other supermarket don't buy as a cell
Or you look at the company and you look they haven't accepted I haven't reacted yet to the complaints of social protection of labor in China So I think there is going to be very interesting stuff available that you basically don't have to go to the internet it's in with your mobile phone you can see an information and the different causes around you
But will it all be good I mean I was very interesting a very positive so I have to say some difficulties and some challenges of course and The big thing we had I think with the San Francisco example is privacy I mean Getting a lot of data you have to be very careful I mean what kind of data you use your campaigns, and how much to make it public
I mean there's a lot of data, which you better not make public and as huge discussion about Google Street View Showing these photos about maps the interesting thing is that I don't know what you know But this discussion is only in Germany nowhere else, so it's very interesting, but it's also bit frightening It's not discussed as much in other countries probably
Propaganda since maps are there there is propaganda maps doesn't mean that you necessary you are necessarily transparent objective They are perfectly wonderful to just describe one of your thoughts or one interest especially Borders are wonderful example borders are just shown in the interest of one country
But not in the other one there are good examples of community mapping But that is of course very fast into conflict and quite tricky to use then in this regards maps And discrimination there is this tool. It's called antisocial borrow meter I don't know. It's the one of the most top iPhone apps in UK and what it does technically
I find it technically very interesting, but what it does is that it took information out of the open data initiative in the UK Such as crime rates and other kind of indicators of an area what the situation is there like and it gives a percentage So I'm let's say somewhere in London, and I can see okay the percentage of antisocial is 60% here
So and then you go to another area, and it's 40% and it's super famous 100,000 so I think 200 300,000 people have downloaded it so but I think it's it's it's tricky It's difficult because it shows I mean what did they tell me I mean if I'm 40% I'm calm by 60. I start running I
Don't know so it's there really side effects, and of course very very important thing is attention You can make the most fantastic maps and the most wonderful argument But you need the attention you need an audience to make it to make something happen, and I was in the farm subsidy
Session I found they said it too. It's interesting. They offer fantastic data, and I said very openly They're frustrated that the data is less used But once they pile it up and they come they put a summary and press release out suddenly people react And they want to put it into press
But the data itself or maybe the map itself doesn't trigger that kind of reaction Okay, that was it. Thank you very much
questions Yes, please
Yeah, I did there is a lot of happening I mean the question was about whether there are tools to get to extract geolocation data out of yeah
Geolocation reference information out of that time there are a lot tools, and they're getting better and better But I still think there are no magic tools. There's still a lot of work involved really I find That's the problem, but the more open data and raw materials you have the chances are higher But I think like Yahoo and Google like they offer quite impressive tools definitely other questions
So if anyone has seen maps of companies and how they relate to each other I think it'd be really
Interesting to hear about them or to actually start building them because this is a space we haven't really explored As much as we have the physical space Yes I just want to draw attention that tomorrow is the open data hector, and we will have
Geodata of Berlin there and a lot of maps Really a lot of maps, and I hope I see some views there because well we need the work not only developers but also Journalists and people who can say well how to present the map in a way that is not discriminating and
Puts attention to the topic Yeah
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