tailieunhanh - Community Participation and Geographic Information Systems - Chapter 19

Chương này điều tra tiềm năng của PPGIS trao quyền cho cộng đồng địa phương, tăng cường xã hội dân sự toàn cầu, và góp phần tuyên truyền vận động công cộng, đặc biệt là trong thế giới thứ ba. Nó được dựa trên bài học kinh nghiệm trong một dự án nghiên cứu liên tục áp dụng điều tra vai trò của công nghệ thông tin (CNTT) toàn cầu hóa của kháng nuôi tôm công nghiệp tại các vùng nhiệt đới ven biển ở châu Á, Mỹ Latinh, và châu Phi. Dự án đa ngành và đánh giá cao. | Chapter 19 Information technologies PPGIS and advocacy globalization of resistance to industrial shrimp farming Susan C. Stonich INTRODUCTION This chapter investigates the potential of PPGIS to empower local communities enhance global civil society and contribute to public advocacy especially in the Third World. It is based on lessons learned during an ongoing applied research project investigating the role of Information Technologies ITs in the globalization of resistance to industrial shrimp farming in tropical coastal zones in Asia Latin America and Africa. The project is multidisciplinary and highly collaborative - including the efforts of academics scientists NGOs grassroots groups and private public donors - and is aimed at integrating research and practice. This chapter focuses on the challenges issues feasibility and potential of scaling-up - that is linking local community-level PPGIS into a global PPGIS in order to advance advocacy affect global environmental governance and further alternative development. To date project activities have focused on conducting ethnographic and survey research among members of the global resistance coalition with funding from the National Science Foundation NSF The University of California Pacific Rim Research Program and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Preliminary research included assessment of existing access to and use of advanced ITs by individual coalition members the global resistance coalition and the worldwide network of industry supporters the backlash movement . Project activities have also included a series of meetings and workshops for project collaborators. Preliminary results suggest the crucial role played by advanced information technologies such as e-mail the Internet and the World Wide Web WWW in the formation and maintenance of resistance and industry networks in facilitating vital communication among members of each network and in each network s strategy for achieving short- and long-term .