Educational Support on Computing and Informatics for Disadvantaged Groups, An Empowerment Perspective
Educational Support on Computing and Informatics for Disadvantaged Groups, An Empowerment Perspective
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从赋权的角度为弱势群体提供计算机和信息学教育支持
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_152-1
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发表时间:
2020
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Toshinori
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北村知昭;藤井航;Toshinori
The Technological Domain and the Geoinformation Society Human action takes place in space, produces and reproduces space and place taking into account societal and physical rules, and appropriates space (Werlen 1993). As means of action, humans have been using geoinformation for centuries. A description of a specific place, explaining a route to someone else, using the sun and stars for orientation, using signposts or producing a sketch map to depict the supposed location of a treasure all contain geoinformation. This type of geoinformation usually consists of a location that is more or less exactly defined, as well as attribute data detailing specific qualities of the location, area, or route described. Thinking of a verbal description of the last holiday, people usually look into where it was, what the specific qualities of the place were, how they got there. Early rulers both in Asia and Europe kept track of their subjects in terms of spatialized data for tax collection and the reproduction of power structures using territorial strategies. All these actions clearly can be “put on the map” using their location. Starting in the early to mid-twentieth century, additional technologies became available for mapping agendas. These include first aerial photography developed for the military in reconnaissance flights leading to a distanced view of the earth’s surface from above during World War I, which transformed the view of the world into an additional bird’s eye perspective. Later, with the advent of additional computing possibilities, GIS were developed for peaceful purposes in Canadian forestry, profiting from the possibility to map, store, and analyze data of large tracts of land. While the technology was quickly enhanced through computing power, algorithms, and storage capacity, these Geographical information Systems clearly were expert systems that needed considerable academic and technical education to be used. At the same time, data collection was clearly an agenda of the nation state and its administrative entities.