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SUMMARY:State of the Map 2021
DESCRIPTION:In 2021 the State of the Map conference will be held as an online conference again. Stay tuned for further information about calls for participation\, the conference format and schedule. In the meantime\, please consider signing up for updates via their newsletter\, join the telegram group chat and follow them on Twitter.
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SUMMARY:2021 Esri User Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) is a fully virtual experience. Join us at the Plenary Session to hear from Esri president Jack Dangermond\, Esri staff experts\, and special guests. Learn to use the latest tools in technical sessions. Get inspired by user presentations and the Virtual Map Gallery entries. Find solutions in the Expo\, and shop at the Esri Merch Store. \nWatch powerful stories about how GIS is making a difference in the world. See demonstrations of Esri technology and learn about the newest upgrades. Hear a keynote from Jack Dangermond and presentations from other thought-provoking speakers. \nBrowse the sponsors and exhibitors through our virtual format. Interact with displays and get your questions answered. \nThis unique learning opportunity provides recorded presentations\, technical workshops with live Q&As\, training in the latest GIS technology\, and more. \nEven in the virtual format\, the Esri User Conference (Esri UC) provides online networking and collaboration opportunities with your peers.
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SUMMARY:Society for Conservation GIS Conference
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend our 2021 SCGIS Annual International Conference!   \nIn light of the ongoing pandemic and the value of connecting our community across continents\, the Conference will once again be virtual.  It will consist of a series of online sessions between July 19th and August 6th.  Conference registration will be free to all who wish to attend\, and we strongly encourage all attendees to join SCGIS if not already a member. \nKeynotes\nWe are pleased to announce two accomplished keynote speakers! \nJuly 19\, 2021: Walter Jetz received a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is a Professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department and in the School of the Environment at Yale University\, where he arrived in 2009. \nHis research addresses global biodiversity dynamics in a changing world and integrates ecological\, evolutionary\, geographical\, and environmental perspectives. One particular focus is the use of new technologies and data flows to study biodiversity distributions and responses to change across scales. Flagship projects include Map of Life (a research\, education and information platform addressing the global geographic distribution of species)\, the Half-Earth Project Map (addressing global priorities for area-based conservation) and EarthEnv (near-global high-resolution environmental data for biodiversity applications). For publications see here. \nAt Yale\, Walter Jetz founded and directs the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and its Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement of Global Change\, an International Max Planck Center. For IPBES\, he was member and co-manager of the Task Force on Data and Knowledge\, chaired the Task Group on Indicators and was Lead Author of the Global Assessment. He is Scientific Chair of the EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and co-chairs the Species Population Working Group of GEO BON. \n  \nJuly 26\, 2021:  Molly Burhans combines her passion for people and the planet with her experience in GIS\, design thinking\, business development\, and scientific research to understand and transform complex systems and make land work for good. As founder and Executive Director of GoodLands\, Burhans helps communities manage their properties for environmental\, social\, and financial impact. She was the chief cartographer for the first global data-based maps of the Catholic Church\, and her work combining faith\, environmental stewardship and technology has received international coverage and acclaim. Burhans is an Ashoka fellow\, a Henry Arnhold fellow\, and the 2019 United Nations Young Champion of the Earth for North America. She has been involved with the Vatican Youth Symposium\, Vatican Arts and Technology Council\, United Nations Youth Assembly\, and the Buckminster Fuller Catalyst program\, and was an Echoing Green fellowship finalist. \nWorkshops\nSCGIS is pleased to announce this line-up of technical workshops. Each workshop is listed in US Pacific Time\, and is offered at a cost of $28. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate (July)\nStart Time (GMT -7\, USA Pacific)\nEnd Time (GMT -7\, USA Pacific)\nTopic\nInstructor\n\n\nTues 20th\n8:00 AM\n11:00 AM\nSpatial Data Analysis in R Part I\nAndy Lyons\n\n\nWed 21st\n9:00 AM\n12:00 PM\nIntroduction to Google Earth Engine: Tracking Changes in NDVI Over Time\nAnnie Taylor\n\n\nThurs 22nd\n8:00 AM\n11:00 AM\nSpatial Data Analysis in R Part II\nAndy Lyons\n\n\nThurs 22nd\n1:00 PM\n3:30 PM\nCreating and combining Story Maps\, Interactive Maps\, Surveys\, and Dashboards for gathering\, mapping\, analyzing\, and communicating information\nJoseph Kerski\n\n\nFriday 23rd\n9:00 AM\n12:00 PM\nExploring ArcGIS field apps\nMiriam Schmidts\n\n\nTues 27th\n9:00 AM\n12:00 PM\nIntroduction to Remote Sensing using Open Source Tools\nNancy Thomas\, Cindy Schmidt\n\n\nWed 28th\n9:00 AM\n12:00 PM\nOpen Source Remote Sensing: Land Cover Change Analysis\nNancy Thomas\, Cindy Schmidt\n\n\n\nConference Sponsorship\nIf you are interested in being a conference sponsor please read the attached guidelines. \nThis page will be continually updated as more details become available. Visit us again soon for more information on registration and the agenda. \n  \nSincerely\, \nThe SCGIS Conference Committee
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SUMMARY:Smart GEO Expo 2021
DESCRIPTION:Smart GEO Expo 2021 is happening on July 21 to 23 in Seoul\, Korea On/Offline Hybrid! Smart GEO Expo 2021 celebrates its 13th with a slogan “Digital Twin\, Design the Smarter Future”. \nWe are ready to show new technologies of geospatial information and convergence to other industries. \nExperience our business matching system to meet people from various fields worldwide. \nWe invite you to the On/Offline Hybrid Exhibition. Experience the limitless potential and the cutting-edge trends of the geospatial information industry with Smart GEO Expo 2021!
URL:https://gogeomatics.ca/event/smart-geo-expo-2021/
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SUMMARY:OGC API Virtual Sprint
DESCRIPTION:The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to the July 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint\, to be held from July 21st to July 23rd\, 2021. The code sprint will begin at 07:00am EDT on the first day\, and end at 05:30pm EDT on the last day. \nOGC has been developing a new generation of standards for building web Application Programming Interface (API) solutions that make location-referenced information more Findable\, Accessible\, Interoperable\, and Reusable (FAIR). These draft specifications come from OGC’s effort to create modular\, resource-oriented API standards that use OpenAPI for describing interfaces that offer location-referenced information over the web. \nTo ensure that all of the new OGC Application Programming Interface (API) standards are as developer-friendly\, usable\, and mature as possible before release\, each draft specification is being put through one or more code sprints to test and improve their ‘readiness’ before starting the OGC standards approval process. \nA Code Sprint is a collaborative and inclusive event driven by innovative and rapid programming with minimal process and organization constraints to support the development of new applications and candidate standards. \nThe July 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint will focus on the following draft OGC API specifications: \n\nOGC API – Processes\nOGC API – Coverages\nOGC API – Records\n\nThe goal of the July 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint will be to progress the specifications. The sprint will also help to identify issues and options for addressing those issues. \nThe draft OGC API – Processes specification defines an interface that enables the execution of geospatial computing processes and the retrieval of metadata describing their purpose and functionality. Typically\, these processes execute well-defined algorithms that ingest vector and/or coverage data to produce new datasets. \nThe draft OGC API – Records specification defines an interface that enables discovery and access to metadata records about resources such as features\, coverages\, tiles / maps\, models\, assets\, services or widgets. The draft specification enables the discovery of geospatial resources by standardizing the way collections of descriptive information about the resources (metadata) are exposed and accessed. \nThe draft OGC API – Coverages specification defines an interface that enables access to coverages that are modeled according to the Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) 1.1. Coverages are represented by some binary or ASCII serialization\, specified by some data (en­coding) format. Arguably the most popular type of coverage is that of a gridded coverage. Gridded coverages have a grid as their domain set describing the direct positions in multi-dimensional coordinate space\, depending on the type of grid. Satellite imagery is typically modeled as a gridded coverage\, for example. \nOGC invites software developers to participate in the code sprint. There will be an opportunity for joint discussion with all participants on the goals and objectives of the event\, as well as the final briefing of findings and opinions of the participants. However\, the majority of the time will be spent on collaboration between participants in active coding. To learn more about the previous OGC code sprints\, visit https://www.ogc.org/projects/initiatives/ogcsprints
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Emerging Location-based Services and Technologies\, GeoSurveillance and Social Justice Issues
DESCRIPTION:This GeoEthics Webinar is dedicated to location-based services and technologies that are both static (e.g. CCTV cameras on a building) and increasingly dynamic (e.g. mobile CCTV cameras on a vehicle). The Webinar introduces the notion of dual use technologies that may have surveillance for care and surveillance for control applications. The thematic areas of concern to be addressed revolve around the various veillances: sur-\, data-\, sous-\, and über-veillance. Emerging technologies of interest in this webinar include IP-based location data collection technologies such as\, satellite and low-Earth orbiting technology (e.g. X-Y coordinates)\, uninhabited aerial vehicles (e.g. drones)\, wi-fi networks (e.g. campus watch)\, smart infrastructure (e.g. lampposts)\, mobile CCTV (e.g. vehicles)\, body-worn cameras (e.g. digital glass)\, and smartphones. \nThematic areas that will be addressed include “geolocation” and issues pertaining to “social justice”\, such as\, location-based solutions for those living with dementia or autism\, the attitudes and perceptions of youth with respect to location-based digital apps\, humanitarian aspects of the collection of identity and location data pertaining to the rights of refugees\, or marginalized communities based on segregating factors; indigenous peoples under geosurveillance in the name of smart city safety; location in the context of gender-based violence\, for good and for harm; closed campus IOT-based sensors\, data privacy and human rights; regulatory tools that may be effective in addressing geolocation issues especially in the context of biosurveillance laws; and finally the role of the professionalization of ethics in the workplace\, to allow for a better understanding of how Human Geography and Geographic Information Systems converge to be appropriately applied towards Geotelematics Services (i.e.\, the convergence of geography\, telecommunications\, and informatics solutions) in the public interest. The objective is to provide a forum for discussion\, working toward enacting positive change\, as opposed to further enslaving citizens. \n  \n\nKatina Michael Arizona State University\n\nAdvanced Location Services and Social Implications\n\nKatina Michael is a professor at Arizona State University\, holding a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. She is also the director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective (SPEC) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. Katina is a senior member of the IEEE and a Public Interest Technology advocate who studies the social implications of technology with an emphasis on systems of innovation. She has held 14 annual workshops in the social implications of national security space and chaired 3 international symposia on technology and society (ISTAS) in Wollongong\, Toronto and Phoenix. She is the Senior Editor of the socio-economic impact section in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine and was the editor in chief of the award-winning IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. In 2019 she took on the role of working group chair for the IEEE P2089 standard. In 2020 she received the ICTO Golden Medal for lifetime achievement award for exceptional contributions to research in information systems\, and the IEEE Phoenix section’s Outstanding Member Contributing to Global Humanitarian Projects Award for her contributions to a better understanding of the impact of emerging technologies on humanity. In 2017\, she also received the Brian M. O’Connell IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) Distinguished Service Award. \n  \n\n\nRoba Abbas University of Wollongong\n\nSocio-Technical Systems and Location-Based Regulation\n\nRoba Abbas is a Lecturer and Academic Program Director with the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Wollongong\, Australia. She has a PhD in location-based services regulation and has received competitive grants for research addressing global challenges in areas related to co-design and socio-technical systems\, operations management\, robotics\, social media and other emerging technologies. Her current research interests include methodological approaches to complex socio-technical systems design. More recently\, she has delivered talks and co-organized panels for Yale University\, The Alan Turing Institute\, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)\, Arizona State University and Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Dr Abbas is Co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and was the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS20) hosted by Arizona State University in November 2020. From 2005 to 2010\, she was a Product Manager with Internetrix\, Wollongong. \n  \n\n\nJeremy V. Pitt Imperial College London\n\nIntelligent Systems and Self-Organising Systems\n\nJeremy V. Pitt is Professor of Intelligent and Self-Organising Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College (University of London). He has been teaching and researching Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction for over thirty years\, where his research programme has used computational logic to specify algorithmic models of social processes\, with applications in cyber-physical and socio-technical systems\, especially for sustainable\, fair and legitimate self-governance. He has collaborated on research projects extensively in Europe\, but also in India and New Zealand\, and has held visiting professorial positions in Italy\, Japan and Poland. He has published more than 200 articles in journals\, conferences and workshops\, and this work has received several Best Paper awards. He is a trustee of AITT (the Association for Information Technology Trust)\, a Fellow of the BCS (British Computer Society) and of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology)\, and in 2018 was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Technology & Society magazine. \n  \n\n\nRoger Clarke Australian National University\n\nDataveillance\n\nRoger Clarke is a consultant on strategic and policy aspects of advanced information technologies. He is also a dilettante researcher\, with hundreds of published papers and over 10\,000 Google citations. He has been active in privacy and surveillance consultancy\, research and advocacy since the early 1970s\, and has published over 100 papers in the area. He originated the term ‘dataveillance’ in 1986\, and also coined ‘the digital persona’\, ‘identity silo’\, ‘(id)entification’ and ‘dissidentity’\, to assist in the analysis of information technology’s impacts on privacy. \n  \n\n\nSteve Mann University of Toronto | BlueberryX.com\n\nSousveillance\n\nSteve Mann is the founder and CTO of BlueberryX.com\, the world’s first brain-sensing context-aware eyeglass. He is a Visiting Full Professor\, Stanford University\, Department of Electrical Engineering and a Full Professor\, University of Toronto\, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is Chair of the Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) and Founding Member of the IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence. He invented wearable computing in his childhood\, brought this invention to MIT to found the MIT wearable computing project\, and according to Nicholas Negroponte “persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline.” He invented\, designed\, and built the world’s first smartwatch in 1998 (patent filed 1999\, featured on cover of Linux Journal July 2000) which he presented at IEEE ISSCC 2000 where he was named “The father of the wearable computer”. Inventor of HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging\, used in more than 2 billion smartphones. He has founded companies with valuation in excess of $1 billion\, together with students. \n  \n\n\nM. G. Michael Independent Researcher\n\nUberveillance\n\nM. G. Michael PhD (ACU)\, MA (Hons) (MacqUni)\, MTheol (SydUni)\, BTheol (SCD)\, BA (SydUni) is an independent researcher. He was formerly an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wollongong\, NSW\, Australia. Michael is a theologian and historian with cross-disciplinary qualifications in the humanities\, who introduced the concept of überveillance into the privacy and bioethics literature \n  \n\n\nChristine Perakslis Johnson and Wales University | Arizona State University\n\nBenefits and Risks of the Converging Veillances\nThe four veillances (i.e. surveillance\, dataveillance\, sousveillance\, and uberveillance) continue to converge\, enabling diverse actors to aggregate vast amounts of data gleaned from the micro-\, meso-\, and macro-levels of society. At the micro-level\, embodied computing\, or body-centered computing\, has evolved from wearable and bearable devices to implants\, bionic technology\, and ingestible sensors. At the meso-level\, technology affords ordinary citizens new capabilities to record everyday life experiences including other people\, places\, processes\, or procedures. At the macro-level\, the Internet of Things and People (IoTaP) also continues to evolve with an intensification of interconnected devices\, systems\, people\, and services to link to the infrastructures around us. What are the current and emerging benefits of the converging of the veillances? What are categories of risks we should address? \n\nChristine Perakslis serves as an educator and consultant for various organizations. She serves as a researcher with publications and presentations focusing on the social implications of technology\, group integration competencies\, and behavioral motivators/psychometrics. Perakslis is a member of various associations and serves in the capacity of a peer-reviewer\, as well as a member of advisory boards\, program committees\, and technical committees. Certificates and certifications include such areas as Advanced Graduate Studies\, Lean Operations\, Praendix Analyst\, and Six Sigma. \n  \n\n\nRys Farthing Reset Australia- Reset Tech | Oxford University\n\nYoung People’s Concerns on the Collection and Use of Geolocation Data\nChildren and young people are now ‘datafied’ before they are even born; from pregnancy apps and heartbeat monitors to ultrasounds shared on social media\, their data is extracted and shared before they even take their first breath. This data collection continues throughout childhood\, from AI-enabled baby monitors to connected toys. One estimate suggests that in Advertising Tech alone\, over 72 million data points are collected about children by the time they reach 13. The amount of data that is now held about younger generations is truly staggering and presents unique risks for the realisation of children’s rights. \nOf all this data\, the children and young people I speak with in Australia are most concerned about the collection and use of geolocation data. Children have a right to privacy\, and this right is important to them. From childhood fantasies about finding secret gardens and hidden worlds like Narnia\, to playing in hidden spots in the playground and out-of-view treehouses\, private spaces have always been important to children (and scary for parents!). But it appears that this non-stop surveillance through geolocation data is both eroding children’s sense of imagination about private spaces and replacing it with worries about their personal safety. This discussion will look at what Australian young people have been saying about geolocation data\, and the need for greater regulation around its collection and use. \n\nRys Farthing is the Director of Children’s Policy at Reset Tech Australia\, a think tank and campaigning organisation set up to tackle digital threats to democracy. Rys has worked for NGOs in Australia\, the US and UK\, with a focus on realising children and young people’s rights\, and increasingly their rights in a digital world. She is a ‘recovering’ academic and has held posts at the University of Oxford\, and RMIT University. \n  \n\n\nToby Shulruff U.S. National Network to End Domestic Violence | Arizona State University\n\nEvery Move You Make: Surveillance and Gender-based Violence\nLocation data is routinely used as a means to exert control over victims of gender-based violence. Using easily accessible\, often built-in tools including social apps\, tracking devices\, phone accounts\, and monitoring software\, abusive partners track victims’ movements in real time or interrogate their recent history. This abuse isolates victims from support and social connection\, restricts their independence\, causes intense anxiety and a feeling of always being watched. Conversely\, the very same technologies are also used to connect with friends and family\, protect children and pets from abuse\, call for help to a specific location\, or monitor convicted offenders. Choice about when and with whom to share our location should be built into location-enabled technologies from the beginning\, with the privacy needs of the most vulnerable at the center of our care and design methods. \n\nToby Shulruff (she/her) works to build the capacity of communities to understand\, make choices about\, and ultimately shape the technologies that are woven into the fabric of our lives. Toby is a writer\, trainer\, project manager\, and consultant – and a graduate student in the new Public Interest Technology program at Arizona State University. Toby works at the intersection of technology and gender-based violence as a Senior Technology Safety Specialist at the Safety Net Project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence (US) \n  \n\n\nJason Sargent Swinburne University of Technology\n\nGeocoding our humanity: Markers of people\, place & time\nThis presentation will use imagery to posit the viewer into moments of time and place to consider the implications of data coupling identity+location of oppressed populations. Vignettes (some historical and some from a personal 20 year research journey) will include the liberation of Auschwitz (pre digital revolution)\, the Balkan Crisis/ Sarajevo and Srebrenica (the first technology-enabled humanitarian crisis\, Zeitgeist for the arrival of the World Wide Web)\, and the post digital revolution protracted forced migration of Karen refugees on the Thai-Burma Border and recent land data governance struggles of the Adivasi of the Satpuda Ranges of India. The presentation will highlight geocoding as a powerful témoignage/testimony lens and touch on elements of trust\, constructivist co-design\, power relationships and conclude with a call to action for responsible collection\, curation and diffusion of oppressed population’s geocoded data. \n\nJason Sargent co-directs the Information Systems for Social Impact Research Group\, Swinburne University of Technology and has spent his entire academic\, scholarship and research career bringing people and technology together for a better world. He has been the academic lead of Swinburne’s internationally awarded ICT for Social Impact India Project (2014-present)\, and currently oversees humanitarian community projects in Melbourne\, Pal India\, Pakpattan Pakistan\, and Mogadishu and Hirshabelle State Somalia. \nIn 2003\, Jason’s undergraduate Honours thesis (‘The Digital Aid Framework – DAF’) introduced to the field of technology-enabled humanitarian relief a conceptual\, end-to-end technology integration framework for humanitarian (refugee) relief operations. The DAF thesis was awarded the PWC Award for highest grade achieved in an Honours project in the Faculty of Informatics\, University of Wollongong and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Ubiquity article summarising DAF was subsequently used as course material at the University of California-Davis and has been downloaded ~180\,000 times. Jason’s doctoral candidature was based in the University of Sydney’s Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo Lab)\, Faculty of Education & Social Work. His 2012 thesis explored complexities in attainment of higher education by refugees on the Thai-Burma Border (TBB) through a trinity of theoretical lenses: social capital\, communities of practice and blended learning and came about through his pro bono service with the Melbourne-based grassroots Refugee Tertiary Education Committee (RTEC). His doctoral fieldwork was carried out on the TBB near Mae Pa and Mae Sot\, Thailand. \nIn August 2020\, Jason was humbled to be invited to become an Ambassador for Amnesty International Australia’s ‘My New Neighbour’ campaign\, advocating for a fairer community sponsorship program for refugees. \n  \n\n\nAlexander Hayes Oethica\, Australia | University of Wollongong\n\nApplying a Socioethical Framework for Body Worn Cameras\nMy focus in this presentation is unpacking further the socioethical framework developed in my PhD\, examining the pivotal role of GIS as described by Abbas\, Michael et al. referencing criminal proceedings involving data derivative of location enabled body worn video cameras (BWC). In the case of Kwilla vs. WA State\, 2020\, in Derby Western Australia\, the Aboriginal Legal Service advised the accused to accept an early guilty plea for lesser charges based on presentation of video evidence from BWCs\, despite assertions from the accused that the video presented as evidence was heavily redacted. This case in review correlates with First Nation peoples accounts in Canada of how technology is further marginalising the already overpoliced\, with evidence of collusion from private enterprise in predictive policing. My presentation will also draw on multiple contemporary and historical associations of BWCs as part of the broader rollout of surveillance in the global context. \n\nAlexander Hayes is an expert in communications\, information systems\, and body-worn camera technologies. Hayes completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in March 2021 for the research inquiry\, The Socioethical Implications of Body Worn Computers: An Ethnographic Study through the Faculty of Engineering & Information Systems at the University of Wollongong\, NSW Australia. With over 25 years of entrepreneur\, consultation\, and researcher experience\, Hayes describes himself as a polymath and versatilist\, catalyzing social change through emancipatory human rights and social justice activity. With a portfolio in the creative arts\, Hayes also engages across multiple domains and disciplines as a practicing professional artist in works focussed on cultural frameworks and social commentary. \nIn recent years Hayes\, as a filmmaker and producer\, has released two feature documentaries\, 120 short films\, and attained multiple project commissions in collaboration with rural and remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia including the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council\, Western Australia. As a designer and projects manager\, Hayes is an adaptable UX and UI consultant\, bridging information systems and communications technologies with web\, graphic design\, and print press production. As an author and biographer Hayes is also widely published in journals\, books\, periodicals\, and online communities. \n  \n\n\nElma Hajric Smart Cities NSF NRT | Arizona State University\n\nThe ‘Smart Campus’ and Geo-Surveillance\nWith ‘smart city’ narratives increasing adoptions of sensor-filled ‘Internet of Things’ devices used for surveillance in public spaces\, campuses have become testing beds for deploying such ‘smart’ technologies\, including geographical elements of location tracking such as smart light poles. This discussion investigates the campus as a unique smart city and considers the sociotechnical implications of the smart campus with regards to surveillance capacities and issues related to data rights such as ownership and privacy. \n\nElma Hajric is a PhD student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology and a National Research Trainee in the NSF for Citizen-Centered Smart Cities and Smart Living. Her research focuses on governance of emerging technologies and data topics pertaining to surveillance\, privacy\, and ownership. \n  \n\n\nRob Nicholls University of New South Wales\n\nDo as I Say\, not as I do: Biometric regulation and exceptions\nGoing to a café in Australia requires using a QR code to locate yourself. On many devices\, this is opened using the biometric data of either a face or thumbprint. In most Australian states\, the smartphone app requires information from a photograph-based identity such as a driver’s licence. This location data is intended to be used solely for contact tracing in the context of COVID-19. However\, the data has already been used by at least one state police force. In the same context\, Google has been found to have breached competition law by failing to disclosure all of the steps required to switch off location tracking. In the US\, the Federal Trade Commission has required that Everalbum destroy both data and algorithms used in unauthorised facial recognition. This creates a complex regulatory environment where governments at multiple levels are engaged in activities that might be prohibited in the private sector. Whereas this might be acceptable in the context of COVID-19\, it is both confusing and inconsistent. \nThis paper reviews the ways in which governments at multiple levels use both biometric data and location data in ways that would otherwise be unacceptable or prohibited. It suggests that some of the regulatory changes (competition\, privacy and data protection) that have been put in place in response to increasing commercial biosurveillance will be difficult to sustain if governments act in a way that is inconsistent with them. \n\nRob Nicholls is an associate professor in regulation and governance at the UNSW Business School and a visiting professional fellow at UTS Sydney Law. His research interests focus on competition law\, the regulation of networked and platform industries with an emphasis on the effects of technology in the regulatory space. His PhD examined the regulation of the media in Australia and his platform industry analysis reflects this. Rob has had a thirty-year career concentrating on competition\, regulation and governance. His first degree was in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham and he was awarded his PhD and MA by UNSW Sydney. Before moving to academia\, he worked for Webb Henderson\, the ACCC and spent twelve years as a client-facing consultant at Gilbert + Tobin\, including as a partner. Rob is an accredited mediator and from 2012 to 2020 was Australia’s Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator. \n  \n\n\nJumana Abu-Ghazaleh Pivot for Humanity\n\nLocation\, Location\, Location: Making Space for GIS Ethics\nGeography is not just a lens through which we understand and interpret the world. It is not purely academic\, rarely objective\, and often weaponized. Today\, geography is the tool of the powerful – the platform of choice for those whose goals go beyond making sense of and learning about the world to actively shaping\, planning\, and too frequently\, manipulating it. If data is the new oil\, then geography is its refinery: geography creates new ways to use the constant stream of data–for profit\, for good\, for power\, for politics\, for justice\, for surveillance\, for oppression and for other harms. As a result\, GIS educators and practitioners find themselves increasingly subject to ethical and moral quandaries: in an ever more heavily tech-intermediated world\, how can GIS be proactively ethical? When practitioners need clarity and guidance\, where can they turn? Who or what can they consult? A code of ethics\, however inspiring and resonant\, remains largely ineffectual. \nThis discussion will focus on shifting ethics from theory to practice. We will explore the use of a few key geographic concepts (place\, location\, proximity and distance) to inform how the AAG could transform ethics from a well-intentioned statement of intent into a set of norms that are practical\, usable\, consistent and impactful. \n\nJumana Abu-Ghazaleh is the President of Pivot for Humanity\, the organization founded in 2018 to professionalize the extractive\, data-driven social tech industry and foster a responsible\, ethical\, and accountable internet. Pivot’s goal is to compel an industry in crisis to adopt universal standards\, norms and values that will pivot\, or reorient\, the industry toward its original mission: serving humanity. In 2014\, Jumana founded and launched zanie\, an app designed to help employers shrink virtual distance and create a thriving and emotionally engaged digital workforce. zanie helps companies build stronger distributed teams by facilitating conversations that build interpersonal trust between remote members and lead to innovative\, productive\, and fulfilling work. \nJumana’s first career was in marketing and brand strategy and communications\, where she spent over 20 years developing strategies for organizations such as American Express\, Yahoo\, Coca-Cola\, Bank of America\, The RobinHood Foundation\, Ally Bank\, and Hilton Hotels. She is responsible for creating Capital One’s “What’s in your wallet?” campaign. Jumana earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Literature and Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College. \n  \n\n\nTheresa Dirndorfer Anderson Connecting Stones\nTheresa Dirndorfer Anderson is based in Sydney\, Australia. Anderson is an active contributor to local and international initiatives to humanize data science. Her scholarly work engages with the fundamental concepts of uncertainty\, relevance\, and resilience in individual\, organizational\, and social settings. Anderson’s research interests include data ethics\, infrastructure politics\, emerging technologies\, and digital youth. Her professional experience includes serving as associate professor and the inaugural director of the Master of Data Science & Innovation program at the University of Technology Sydney\, working as a political research analyst for research centers and think tanks\, and serving as a diplomat and environmental education officer. Anderson earned her MA and PhD in information science from the University of Technology Sydney\, MA in international security studies and arms control from Lancaster University\, and BA in diplomatic history and Soviet/Russian studies from the University of Pennsylvania. \n  \n\n\nMathew Mytka Greater Than Learning\nMathew Mytka is a humanist\, generalist\, father\, gardener\, wannabe extreme sports enthusiast\, and Co-founder of Greater Than Learning. He’s worked across digital identity\, e-learning systems\, behavioral design\, decentralized technologies\, and spent the past few years helping organizations to design more trustworthy products and services. Mat is an IEEE Member\, and co-founder of Greater Than Learning and co-founder of Digitool Lab. \n  \n\n\nNicole Stephensen GroundUp Consulting\nNicole Stephensen is Principal Consultant at Ground Up Consulting\, a boutique firm she established in 2011. There\, she provides capacity building and privacy by design services across government\, private and not for profit sectors. With over 20 years in the privacy profession\, Nicole believes in building sustainable privacy programs and embedding ‘privacy mindset’ into organisational culture. She is a sought-after speaker about privacy and its interface with information security\, risk management\, ethics and trust. She is a subject matter expert and guest lecturer for tertiary education providers in Australia and Canada and is author of course curricula focused on information privacy rights and privacy and cybersecurity acculturation. Nicole is a leading member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and hosts the IAPP’s KnowledgeNet Chapter for Queensland. Prior to its incorporation into the larger IAPP in 2019\, Nicole was also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals ANZ Chapter (iappANZ) where she sat for three consecutive terms on the Board. She is on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Data Leadership\, an initiative of the Smart Cities Council of Australia-New Zealand (SCCANZ) and was the 2020 SCCANZ Smart Cities Leadership Award winner. Nicole served a three-year term as Executive Director for Privacy and Data Protection at the Internet of Things Security Institute\, where she co-authored the IoTSI Security Framework for Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructure and hosted a bi-weekly podcast\, Privacy Matters. Nicole additionally lends her privacy expertise to the digital policy arena – focusing on matters affecting children and young people\, such as privacy and digital footprints\, online safety\, cyber-bullying\, image-based abuse and child exploitation.
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Living Under Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:This webinar aims to stage a conversation on the realities of living under different forms of surveillance\, with the aim of mapping out what is already known and what needs to be known. Surveillance is often conceived narrowly as security technology such as CCTV or facial recognition\, but such an orientation emphasises a top-down and technological focus. In this webinar\, we wish to explore what it is like to live under the regime of surveillance\, what it is like to be monitored by the police\, by the state (especially the welfare state)\, by different digital platforms\, and in different places eg urban centers\, the workplace\, schools and universities\, fragile/vulnerable communities\, public housing\, and so on. How can we better listen to the voices of those who are living under surveillance to understand its effects? Our goal is also to expand the notion of surveillance\, to seek alternatives to top-down approaches by exploring mutual peer-to-peer solutions\, or what Jane Jacobs called the benefits of “eyes on the street.” \nThe webinar will feature approximately two hours of conversations. The first hour will feature Wood\, Browne\, Schuurman and Swanlund\, and in the second hour Peppin\, D’Ignazio and Park. After making short presentations about their recent work and projects\, the participants will be in conversation with each other and respond to provocations from the moderator and from audience questions. The aim is to keep the conversation lively and loose.Please note that the webinar will not be recorded. \n\n  \n\nJeremy W. Crampton Newcastle University\nJeremy W. Crampton is Professor of Urban Data Analysis at Newcastle University. His work focuses on place-based interactions between geolocational technologies and our everyday experience and wellbeing in the built environment. He studies the critical geographies of surveillance\, spatial big data and algorithmic decision-making and the way these are governed. In response to COVID-19 he is interested in how geolocational technologies and “Slow AI” can best build the pandemic-ready city. He is currently writing a book entitled The Map and the Spyglass: The New Geographical Analytics of Everyday Life to be published by Verso. \n  \n\n\nAidan Peppin Ada Lovelace Institute\nAidan Peppin is a Senior Researcher for public engagement at the Ada Lovelace Institute\, where he works to ensure public perspectives inform digital technology design\, practice and policy. Throughout 2020 he led the Citizens’ Biometrics Council\, which brought 50 UK citizens together to deliberate on biometric technology\, and currently he leads Ada’s work on a public dialogue on location data\, commissioned by the UK’s Geospatial Commission. \n  \n\n\nSimone Browne University of Texas at Austin\nSimone Browne is Associate Professor of Black Studies and Research Director of Critical Surveillance Inquiry with Good Systems\, at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently writing her second book manuscript\, Like the Mixture of Charcoal and Darkness\, which examines the interventions made by artists whose works grapple with the surveillance of Black life\, from policing\, privacy\, smart dust and the FBI’s COINTELPRO to encryption\, electronic waste and artificial intelligence. Together\, these essays explore the productive possibilities of creative innovation when it comes to troubling surveillance and its various tactics\, and imagining Black life beyond the surveillance state. Simone is the author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. \n  \n\n\nDavid Swanlund Simon Fraser University\nDavid Swanlund is a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University\, where he researches GIScience approaches to understanding geoprivacy and its protection. This includes research into geographic masks\, techniques used to anonymize spatial data\, as well as privacy-preserving visualization techniques. His Masters research explored the impacts of biometrics on geoprivacy as well as tactics and strategies for resisting surveillance. \n  \n\n\nNadine Schuurman Simon Fraser University\nNadine Schuurman is a health geographer who also has an interest and history in critical GIScience. She is keen to understand the motivation and possible outcomes related to widespread surveillance through social media. \n  \n\n\nCatherine D’Ignazio Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nCatherine D’Ignazio is a hacker mama\, scholar\, and artist/designer who focuses on feminist technology\, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run women’s health hackathons\, designed global news recommendation systems\, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures\, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her 2020 book from MIT Press\, Data Feminism\, co-authored with Lauren Klein\, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. D’Ignazio is an assistant professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT where she is the Director of the Data + Feminism Lab. \n  \n\n\nDavid Murakami Wood Queen’s University\nDavid Murakami Wood is an interdisciplinary scholar of cities\, security and surveillance. Wood is happiest in the worlds of Surveillance Studies and Urban Studies\, but also feels quite at home amongst Human Geographers and Sociologists. Having started off in History\, Wood also tends to want to start by looking for the roots of phenomena and the long-term trajectories. But Wood has also been an environmental and social justice activist an so\, wants research to be relevant and potentially lead to changes for the better. \n  \n\n\nTina M. Park Partnership on AI\nTina M. Park is the Methods for Inclusion Research Fellow\, developing evidence-based methodologies for incorporating a more diverse range of stakeholders in the design and development of artificial intelligence. Her broader scholarship focuses on the examination of research designs and theoretical frameworks used by social scientists to study race and racism\, including its manifestations in digital technology and datasets. Prior to her Ph.D.\, she was a researcher with NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy looking at the impact of the Great Recession on housing market prices. She also worked as an economic development consultant with AECOM (formerly Economics Research Associates) and Entertainment + Culture Advisors to help private and public sector partners develop sustainable real estate development projects around the world. \nTina received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University\, a Master’s in Urban Planning from New York University\, and a B.A. in Political Science (with minors in Chicana/o Studies and Public Policy) from the University of California\, Los Angeles. She was also a Public Affairs Fellow with the Southern California Coro Foundation.
URL:https://gogeomatics.ca/event/webinar-living-under-surveillance/
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