Abstract
Abstract. The number of smart phones that are supported by location facility like Global Positioning System (GPS), Camera and connected to the internet has increased sharply in UAE during the last five years. This increase offers a chance to capitalize on using these devices as resources for data collection, therefore reducing cost. In many cases specific events may happen in areas or at time where there may be no governmental departments to collect such unrepeated events. The current research will showcase various studies that had been conducted on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) debating various aspects such as accuracy, legal issues, and privacy. This research will also integrate Geographic Information System (GIS), VGI, social media tools, data mining, and mobile technology to design a conceptual framework for promoting public participation in UAE. The data gathered through survey will be helpful in correlating various aspects of VGI. Since there are diverse views about these aspects, policy makers are left undecided in many countries about how to deal with VGI. The assessment of the UAE case will contribute to the age-long debate by examining the willingness of the public to participate. The result will show the public perception to be as sensors for data collection. Additionally, the potential of citizen involvement in the risk and disaster management process by providing voluntary data collected for VGI applications will also be explored in the paper.
Highlights
The number of smart phones that are supported by location facility like Global Positioning System (GPS), Camera and connected to the internet has increased sharply in UAE during the last five years
The recent advancement in Geographic Information System (GIS) and rapidly emerging voluntarily. They need better tools and information to support phenomenon in which contribution is mainly by people, either decisions about how to inform wisely and cost-effectively in individually or collectively for the use of information to many risk-reduction measures and updating the data to the concerned others is termed as Volunteered geographic information authority (Dinitz and Taketa, 2013)
The main objective of this study is to understand the perception (Genovese and Roche, 2010), we are entering in a new era of public for Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and to identify how information from of social involvement. This gives concern to a wide range of volunteers is of great value in achieving help for any of the questions and issues connected to it like: What acts as an cause like disaster, social or any other
Summary
Internet as a primary source for creation, assembling and disseminate geographic information provided by individuals. The recent advancement in GIS and rapidly emerging voluntarily They need better tools and information to support phenomenon in which contribution is mainly by people, either decisions about how to inform wisely and cost-effectively in individually or collectively for the use of information to many risk-reduction measures and updating the data to the concerned others is termed as Volunteered geographic information authority (Dinitz and Taketa, 2013). For example Al Ain Municipality in UAE invited the will likely to be considered as personal information of those public to collect sound data using their smart phones individuals (Scassa, 2010). With the increase in number of studies aimed to explore the technical, socio-economic and socio-political opportunities of these new volunteer activities for spatial data collection
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