VGI在危機事件中扮演的角色
2011年2月美國Esri公司與幾個大學合作，舉辦「Volunteered Geographic Information: Real-Time and Emergency Applications」，會中邀請學者與專家共同討論自願參與地理資訊(Volunteered Geographic Information, VGI)的意涵與應用，同時也將VGI定位成地理資訊的群眾外包(locatilocational crowdsourcingonal crowdsourcing)。
2007年12月 Los Alamos National Laboratory與 NCGIA at University of California, Santa Barbara合作，舉辦「Workshop on Volunteered Geographic Information」，針對以下擠個議題進行討論:
- What motivates citizens to provide such information in the public domain, and what factors govern/predict its validity?
- What methods might be used to validate such information, and to attach appropriate metadata to it?
- Can VGI be framed within the larger domain of sensor networks, in which inert and static sensors are replaced by, or combined with, intelligent and mobile humans?
- What limitations are imposed on VGI by differential access to broadband Internet, mobile phones, and other communication technologies, and by concerns over privacy?
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