Andrea Berardi (Open University) Mapping For Sustainable Communities 170608
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This document discusses the need for mapping tools to facilitate communication in a geographically distributed international team working to minimize environmental impact. It introduces several open source software tools, including Compendium for dialogue mapping, that can help manage large quantities of information, including spatial data, and provide expertise to marginalized stakeholders in environmental decision making.
Andrea Berardi (Open University) Mapping For Sustainable Communities 170608
- 1. The role of mapping in communication Andrea Berardi, Communication and Systems Department The Open University
- 2. Cognitive styles and communication
- 3. The need for virtual team working: Geographically distributed international team (UK, Switzerland, Guyana) Minimise environmental impact (UK-Guyana return trip releases 1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ). Need for electronic and open content management for the large quantity of information (some of it spatial). provide access to relevant sources of expertise for stakeholders normally marginalised in environmental decision making.
- 6. Compendium
- 7. Software Tools Moodle : Course content management system. Compendium : Dialogue mapping. uDig : User friendly desktop internet GIS. FlashMeeting : Online video conferencing. All open source