Toward Open Source Kenya: Creating and Sharing a GIS Database of Nairobi
Toward Open Source Kenya: Creating and Sharing a GIS Database of Nairobi
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迈向开源肯尼亚：创建和共享内罗毕 GIS 数据库
DOI：
10.1080/00045608.2013.846157
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2014
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J. Klopp
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作者：
S. Williams;Elizabeth M. Marcello;J. Klopp
为了对城市的未来发展方向做出正确的决策，我们需要数据来进行情境化，并根据过去的结果和未来的潜在模型提出建议。然而，获取包括地理信息系统（GIS）在内的信息是一项挑战，特别是因为数据往往被控制数据的人视为一种商品或权力来源，在肯尼亚这样的情况下，这一动态更为严重。通过为我们自己的交通模型生成地理信息系统数据，然后与那些对内罗毕研究感兴趣的人分享这些数据，我们亲身体验了发展中国家在获取和生成信息方面的一些动力。该项目有几个重要的教训：（1）简单地开发数据并不能使它们开放;如何“开放获取”数据与免费提供数据同样重要。(2)开发数据可以显示对特定地方或项目的承诺，这有助于为更强有力的伙伴关系和项目目标提供支持。(3)公开分享有关地点的数据可能有助于推动那些能够获得信息的人也分享信息。总体而言，该研究项目表明，共享数据可以通过建立数据共享文化来帮助支持本地更开放的访问生态系统，但前提是有兴趣使用数据的人必须具备访问和使用所提供数据集的技术能力。
To make good decisions about the future direction of cities we need data to contextualize and make recommendations that are based on past results and potential models for the future. Yet access to information including geographic information systems (GIS) is challenging, particularly as data are often seen as a commodity or source of power by those who control it, a dynamic more severe in contexts like Kenya. By generating GIS data for our own transportation model and then sharing them with those interested in doing research on Nairobi, we experienced firsthand some of the power dynamics associated with accessing and generating information in the developing country context. The project had several important lessons: (1) Simply developing data does not make them open; how “open access” is provided to the data is just as important as making them freely available. (2) Developing data can show commitment to a particular place or project that can help generate support for stronger partnerships and project goals. (3) Openly sharing data about place might help push those with access to information to share information as well. Overall this research project illustrated that sharing data can help support a more open access ecosystem locally by establishing a culture of data sharing but only if those interested in using it have the technical ability to both access and use data sets provided.