SIG 2.0 et participation publique : vers une géographie de l’action citoyenne

Abstract

We review the literature to highlight criteria for analysing public participation GIS (PPGIS). The theories that have been used, developed or sketched out about PPGIS address the issue according to various entry points: communication and collective learning, negotiation and mediation, representations and cognitive processes, exclusion and politics of knowledge. The emergence of geo-mashups provide a technical backbone on which PPGIS can evolve, with more and more amateur neogeographers that test our theories and force us to redefine them.

Keywords

• geographic information system
• public participation
• GIS/2
• critique
• PGIS
• PPGIS