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@article{citeulike:1866014, abstract = {Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to `official' spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geographical Information Systems as `Participatory GIS' (PGIS) offer a response to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent in the 1990s. This paper reviews PGIS in the context of the `democratization of GIS'. It explores aspects of the control and ownership of geographical information, representations of local and indigenous knowledge, scale and scaling up, web-based approaches and some potential future technical and academic directions. 10.1177/0309132507081493}, author = {Dunn, Christine E.}, citeulike-article-id = {1866014}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132507081493}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://phg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/5/616}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0309132507081493}, journal = {Prog Hum Geogr}, keywords = {citeulike, community-participation, gis, participatory}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {616--637}, posted-at = {2009-10-01 07:34:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Participatory GIS a people's GIS?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132507081493}, volume = {31}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1866014 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1866014 N2 - Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to `official' spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geographical Information Systems as `Participatory GIS' (PGIS) offer a response to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent in the 1990s. This paper reviews PGIS in the context of the `democratization of GIS'. It explores aspects of the control and ownership of geographical information, representations of local and indigenous knowledge, scale and scaling up, web-based approaches and some potential future technical and academic directions. 10.1177/0309132507081493 IS - 5 JF - Prog Hum Geogr EP - 637 TI - Participatory GIS a people's GIS? VL - 31 SP - 616 KW - citeulike KW - community-participation KW - gis KW - participatory AU - Dunn, Christine PY - 2007/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132507081493 ER -