Relating the spatial component and users interests to improve applications based on questions, petitions and participatory processes


Autoria(s): Sánchez, Albert Acedo
Contribuinte(s)

Painho, Marco Octávio Trindade

Fernández, Óscar Belmonte

Guijarro, Joaquín Huertas

Data(s)

25/03/2015

25/03/2015

27/02/2015

Resumo

Nowadays, participatory processes attending the need for real democracy and transparency in governments and collectives are more needed than ever. Immediate participation through channels like social networks enable people to give their opinion and become pro-active citizens, seeking applications to interact with each other. The application described in this dissertation is a hybrid channel of communication of questions, petitions and participatory processes based on Public Participation Geographic Information System (PPGIS), Participation Geographic Information System (PGIS) and ‘soft’ (subjective data) Geographic Information System (SoftGIS) methodologies. To achieve a new approach to an application, its entire design is focused on the spatial component related with user interests. The spatial component is treated as main feature of the system to develop all others depending on it, enabling new features never seen before in social actions (questions, petitions and participatory processes). Results prove that it is possible to develop a working application mainly using open source software, with the possibility of spatial and subject filtering, visualizing and free download of actions within application. The resulting application empowers society by releasing soft data and defines a new breaking approach, unseen so far.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14545

201394162

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Geographical Information System #WebGIS Application #Question based application #Support based application #Public Participation Geographic Information System #SoftGIS #Spatial component #User interests
Tipo

masterThesis