Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities
Short Description
GEOTEC is one of three partners organising the Joint Doctorate “Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities (GEO-C)”, funded under the EU Marie Curie International Training Networks (ITN) program, European Joint Doctorates (EJD). GEO-C aims to contribute methods and tools to realise smart and open cities, in which all groups of society can participate on all levels and benefit in many ways. Complementary strands of research in GEO-C (participation, data analysis & fusion, services) will lead to an improved understanding of how to build open cities and will produce a prototypical open city toolkit. With a budget of over 3’5 million EURO, Geo-C provides 15 Phd students (5 in Spain, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Germany) the opportunity to do research and advance the state of the art in smart and open cities.
GEOTEC’s contribution
The main contribution is the Open City Toolkit (OCT), that it is envisioned as an integrated, open source software empowering citizens, providing them with analytical tools and citizen-centric services in the context of a smart city. It is incorporating the results of the various research lines within the GEO-C phd students. It is designed to keep all the resulting resources (i.e., data, processes, services, guidelines, standards, ontologies, and models) along with utilities, tools and applications that make use of these resources
Publications
Portela, Manuel; Errandonea, Lucía Paz In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, pp. 100-104, ACM, Troyes, France, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4854-6. @inproceedings{Portela:2017:RPS:3083671.3083676, title = {The Role of Participatory Social Mapping in the Struggle of the Territory and the Right to the City: A Case Study in Buenos Aires}, author = {Manuel Portela and Lucía Paz Errandonea}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3083671.3083676}, doi = {10.1145/3083671.3083676}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4854-6}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies}, pages = {100-104}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {Troyes, France}, abstract = {We present a case study of Social Mapping and Participatory Cartography over a shaded territory in Buenos Aires City, Argentina. The project "Caminos de la Villa" was possible thanks to the collaboration of multiple NGOs that worked together to provide visibility on development issues in poor neighborhoods, commonly called "Villas" and "Asentamientos". We take a critical perspective on how developing such tools are embedded of expectation, negotiations and interactions between actors. Doing ethnographic research and documentation analysis, we found that the value for residents is not in the tool itself but in the appropriation process and empowering, led by acquiring new knowledge at working collectively.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } We present a case study of Social Mapping and Participatory Cartography over a shaded territory in Buenos Aires City, Argentina. The project "Caminos de la Villa" was possible thanks to the collaboration of multiple NGOs that worked together to provide visibility on development issues in poor neighborhoods, commonly called "Villas" and "Asentamientos". We take a critical perspective on how developing such tools are embedded of expectation, negotiations and interactions between actors. Doing ethnographic research and documentation analysis, we found that the value for residents is not in the tool itself but in the appropriation process and empowering, led by acquiring new knowledge at working collectively. |
Portela, Manuel; Granell-Canut, Carlos Approaching empathy in the interaction with everyday objects. A comprehensive path to understand Affect and Place in the urban context Journal Article In: 8th International conference on Communities and Technologies 2017 conference, Doctoral Consortium. Troyes, France, 26 June 2017, 2017. @article{PortelaEmpathy2017, title = {Approaching empathy in the interaction with everyday objects. A comprehensive path to understand Affect and Place in the urban context}, author = {Manuel Portela and Carlos Granell-Canut}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, journal = {8th International conference on Communities and Technologies 2017 conference, Doctoral Consortium. Troyes, France, 26 June 2017}, address = {Troyes, France}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/