The V in VGI: Citizens or Civic Data Sources

Developing tools and models for evaluating geospatial data integration of official and VGI data sources

V Databases / Data Sources 491

491 Introduction To a large extent, chemistry is still an empirical science, building its progress on an ever increasing flood of data and information. Thus, it was realized quite early on, that this flood can only be managed by storing it in electronic form. With more than 20 million compounds known, who could know them all? And this flood constantly increases, more than one million new compou...

factors affecting on the citizens' social participation in the civic affairs in mashhad

the article aims to consider factors affecting on the social participation of citizens 18 to 64 years old in the civic affairs in mashhad. the method was survey and the population included all the all inhabitants of mashhad. sample size was 348 respondents who were selected by proportionate systematic sampling strategy for interviewing. the results showed that participation mean is 3.19 out of ...

Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policy-Makers and Citizens in Environmental Governance

At the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, the science and technology communities, along with other nonstate actors, were singled out as major partners in the quest for sustainability. This is in line with calls for refashioning scientiac expertise into a more transparent, accountable and democratic enterprise. Participatory, civil, citizen, civic, stakeholder and democratic s...

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...