Berkman Center Events & Webcasts

Maps, Geographic Information Systems, and spatial analysis are powerful tools that recently have become increasingly accessible to non-specialists. Dynamic maps with user created content are becoming part of daily life in the 1/3 world developed countries and elites in the global South. There is a long history of maps as tools for civic engagement, with public participatory GIS and community engaged mapping playing key roles in for example indigenous land rights struggles, mapping health disparities, and the environmental justice movement’s demonstration of the unequal spatial distribution of pollution. Most recently, new tools and platforms like Open Street Maps and Grassroots Mapping are democratizing maps even further.

via Civic Media Session: “Civic Maps” | MIT Center for Civic Media.