Call for Papers
Submissions
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Abstracts
should be submitted before April 30, 2005
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Acceptance of
papers/posters by June 10, 2005
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Submission of
full papers/posters by August 21, 2005.
These schedule
applies both to
presenters delivering oral presentations and presenting posters.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically to
pgis2005@itc.nl before
30 April 2005 and should contain the paper title, authors
names and affiliations, the contact address of the corresponding
author, the relevant conference theme and should not exceed
250 words in length. Abstracts will be reviewed by the
organizing committee. Authors will be advised within
5 weeks
whether their proposed paper has been accepted.
Guidelines for Preparing Presentations
Third Announcement and Call for Presentations
(
En and
Fr)
Practitioners and
researchers are invited to submit abstracts (in English or
French) for presentations of case studies on completed
initiatives. The organizers strongly support the sharing of
experiences and critical reviews of successes and failures as
basis for learning and discussion. Papers on would-be
initiatives will not be accepted.
The conference focuses on the following three main topics:
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Enabling and disabling environments for PGIS and community
mapping practices to work
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Methodological issues in practicing PGIS and community
mapping
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Implementation issues in practicing PGIS and community
mapping
TOPIC 1: Enabling and
disabling environments for Participatory GIS/Community mapping
To be successful
it is crucial that the relevant legal and regulatory frameworks
in which the PGIS processes can unfold, are in place. Case
studies on how practitioners have been dealing with disabling or
enabling regulatory, legal, policy and institutional
environments are the focal subjects of this topic.
After the
presentations working groups will elaborate communication
strategies, actions and channels which need to complement PGIS
practice / community mapping in order to address disabling
environments or to successfully ride on enabling frameworks.
TOPIC 2: Methodological
issues
Presenters will
share lessons learned in practicing PGIS in developing countries
and First Nations in different socio-cultural, economic,
environmental, institutional, political and technological
circumstances within initiatives where spatial information
management and communication have reinforced participatory
processes.
PGIS practice has
to be embedded into a well thought-out process, including
understanding peoples’ questions, assessing the existing legal
and regulatory frameworks, jointly setting project objectives,
defining strategies and choosing appropriate spatial information
management tools. Such choices involve a broad range of tools
and methods ranging from simple sketch mapping to modern
geographic information technologies and systems (GIT&S), and
always foregrounding the issues of connectivity and the skills
and capacities of actors concerned with the systems being
developed, with or without external support and funding.
Within the main
topic of "Methodological Issues" four tracks will deal with the
following:
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Tools, methods
and processes for
representing (visualising) popular / indigenous spatial
knowledge (mental maps);
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Ethics of PGIS
practice (e.g. control and use of Indigenous Spatial
Knowledge, intellectual property rights, data privacy,
ownership, access, and exclusion, sensitivity, etc.),
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Supporting
cultural heritage preservation and identity building among
indigenous peoples and rural communities. How mapping of
intangible heritage and traditional spatial knowledge is
important for ensuring cultural pluralism and sustainable
resource management.
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Participatory
Geo-information: How to deal with issues of scale, accuracy
and precision in the context of community mapping and PGIS.
Cross-cutting
issues: promoting equity in terms of ethnicity, culture, gender,
environmental justice and hazard mitigation, etc;
TOPIC
3: Implementation
issues
Practitioners around the world have found ways to support their
causes through participatory mapping and use of spatial
information. In four tracks we would like to highlight success
stories and pitfalls from which other practitioners can learn
lessons about:
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Land and
resource rights and entitlements; how communities were able
to acquire rights and entitlements through participatory
mapping, or where they failed despite mapping efforts; what
are the main challenges?
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Participatory
land use planning and collaborative natural resource
management; how does it improve planning and management
either in open access domains or protected areas and what is
the added value of indigenous spatial knowledge for planning
and management purposes?
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Conflict
management and amelioration; in which cases was
participatory mapping able to ameliorate conflict and where
did it lead to escalation? How to manage conflict arising
from change induced by participatory mapping processes?
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Integration of
PGIS with GIS institutions; what are the factors that allow
or hinder this integration? Examples of acceptance or
rejection by government or other institutions?
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