Assessing an open spatial data infrastructure from a user participation perspective: A qualitative exploratory research of OpenStreetMap

Geographic Information (GI) has proven its value with its ability to be used in various fields, which left numerous questions about how this data should be stored, used, and managed. To facilitate the sharing and reuse of spatial data, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) emerged in the last decades and with the increase in Open Data, the belief...

Fostering Red Cross youth innovation: A Human Centred Design curriculum with an emphasis on problem framing

The International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, ‘The Movement’, is the world’s largest humanitarian network. More than 50% of the 14 million active volunteers are youth volunteers. These youth volunteers play vital roles in humanitarian action and development around the world by addressing needs in their communities. To develop the potential...

Assessing an open spatial data infrastructure from a user participation perspective: A qualitative exploratory research with OpenStreetMap

As we advance technologically, spatial data gains importance with its ability to be used in various fields. Traditionally, most spatial data are collected by government organisations. To facilitate sharing and reuse of spatial data, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have been developed in the last decades. More recently with the growing...

Comparison of Remotely Sensed and Volunteered Geographic Information for water reservoirs

The surface water extent around the world is constantly changing due to natural factors (e.g. geology and over-abstraction of water), climate change (e.g. higher water evaporation due to warmer climate) or human activities (e.g. reservoir construction). Water reservoirs are important for the management of the ecosystem, as both humans and the...

Organically Integrated Project Delivery of a Mission-Driven Team: An exploratory study on managing the MOR Team TU Delft during the Solar Decathlon Europe 2019

This master thesis investigated the coordination aspects of the MOR Team TU Delft, a volunteer-students based team, that produced an AEC project for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2019 (SDE19) competition. With a closer look at the aspects of organisation, motivation, and mission, this researched provides an objective account of the characteristics...

Community Mapping Supports Comprehensive Urban Flood Modeling for Flood Risk Management in a Data-Scarce Environment

In this paper we demonstrate a framework for urban flood modeling with community mapped data, particularly suited for flood risk management in data-scarce environments. The framework comprises three principal stages: data acquisition with survey design and quality assurance, model development and model implementation for flood prediction. We...

Community mapping for flood modelling: A case study of the Ramani Huria community mapping project in Dar es Salaam

The current intensification of the hydrologic cycle, in combination with expanding settlements in flood prone areas, makes an increasing share of the global population exposed to flood risks. Many parts of the world are, however, still lacking the data needed for flood risk management and risk reduction. The recent development of information and...

The Obligation to Volunteer as Fair Reciprocity? Welfare Recipients’ Perceptions of Giving Back to Society

Dutch citizens on welfare have to volunteer at Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in return for their benefits. Through applying the ‘worlds of justification’ of Boltanski and Thévenot, this article aims to provide a better theoretical and empirical understanding of social justice of policies that obligate welfare clients to participate in CSOs....

Utilizing volunteered geographical information for the benefit of city planners and urban science: Case of Rotterdam

One of the main challenges of the recently popular data science field is establishing a common ground of understanding between technical methods and domain knowledge. Making smart and effective use of data is just as important for public organizations as it is for private organizations as our cities and their problems get more complex with...

Characterizing data ecosystems to support official statistics with open mapping data for reporting on sustainable development goals

Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is complex given the wide variety of governmental and NGO actors involved in development projects as well as the increased number of targets and indicators. However, data on the wide variety of indicators must be collected regularly, in a robust manner, comparable across but also within...

The Role of Volunteered Geographic Information towards 3D Property Cadastral Systems (2): A Purpose Driven Web Application

VGI has not proved to be readily suitable to replace well-established accurate methods and technologies such as those of full standard cadastral surveys. Even so, VGI potentialities as relevant source of geospatial data have been widely acknowledged. As such, some authors have defended that VGI may in fact play an important role such as at a...

Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits

Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on ‘mandatory’ activities in community programmes. So far, the participants themselves have scarcely been asked...

The Role of Volunteered Geographic Information towards 3D Property Cadastral Systems

General mapping, and particularly cadastral mapping, is a highly expensive activity and many governments are no longer willing to continue covering the even increasing costs of surveys. As far as Portugal is concerned – our ultimate field of interest – ongoing 2D property cadastre surveys have revealed to be rather complex, laborious and...

Co-creation in Volunteer management: Increasing volunteer participation at the Dutch WWF using a co-creation strategy

This qualitative study developed a co-creation model for the Dutch WWF to increase the volunteer participation of their Action Team. The Design Research project consist of a literature analysis generating a theoretical framework for implementing co-creation in volunteer management and identified key elements in volunteer participation. A case...