{"id":4831,"date":"2015-04-24T04:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2015-04-24T04:52:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:52:43","slug":"community-engagement-puts-people-first","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/community-engagement-puts-people-first","title":{"rendered":"Community Engagement Puts People First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Citizens become the environmental researchers and change agents for more ecologically healthy neighborhoods and communities.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;<em>GIS\u2014and in particular, <strong>participatory<\/strong> GIS\u2014is about communities locating themselves, spatially, according to the environment that shapes their lives. Participatory GIS is also about how communities locate themselves socially within society and finding ways to equalize imbalances around who makes decisions that determine how neighborhoods are planned and resources are managed<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Kirstin Miller, Executive Director of Ecocity Builders<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4832\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/04\/EcoCitizenWorldMapTeam-1024x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"154\" \/>If you want to change the quality of life in your city, you have to get people involved. The good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecocitybuilders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecocity Builders<\/a> refer to this effort as \u201cempowering ordinary citizens to claim a stake in their city\u2019s future.\u201d And one of the ways they make this happen is through their <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocitizenworldmap.org\/\">Ecocitizen World Map Project<\/a>.<!--more--><br \/>\nThis project teaches community members basic GIS data collection methods and helps coordinate on-the-ground activities where community members focus on specific issues, such as water quality, access to services, clean air, and safe and affordable housing.  Information is gathered and made part of interactive maps for everyone to see and use.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4835\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/117960282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4835\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/04\/ecocity_video_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A conversation with Ecocity Builders&#8217; Executive Director outside Mundiapolis University in Casablanca about the team&#8217;s initial experiences with citizen surveys in the first pilot cities and where the project will go from here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGet introduced to the Ecocitizen World Map Project team in <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/117960282\">this video<\/a> and check out the Ecocitizen Maps for these pilot cities: <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocitizenworldmap.org\/pilots\/casablanca\/\">Casablanca<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocitizenworldmap.org\/pilots\/cairo\/\">Cairo<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocitizenworldmap.org\/pilots\/medellin\/\">Medellin<\/a>.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4836\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecocitizenworldmap.org\/pilots\/casablanca\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/04\/EcoCitizenWorldMap_Casablanca_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecocitizen World Map Project pilot project for Casablanca.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhat\u2019s inspiring about the Ecocitizen World Map Project is that people who live and work in these cities provide the raw data via surveys. They become the environmental researchers and change agents for more ecologically healthy neighborhoods and communities. They use the technologies of crowdsourcing and crowd mapping to calculate the ecological footprint of a typical neighborhood and they do this to reduce negative impacts on their environment, improve consumption efficiencies, and make people aware of environmental preservation opportunities. See the case study: <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocitizenworldmap.org\/app\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Imbaba-ecocitizen-report-.pdf\">Ecocitizen World Map Project in Imbaba, Cairo<\/a>.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4837\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecocitizenworldmap.org\/pilots\/medellin\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/04\/EcoCitizenWorldMap_Medellin_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecocitizen World Map Project pilot project for Medellin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe practice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/technology-topics\/community-engagement\" target=\"_blank\">community engagement<\/a> is meant to bring a more realistic alignment of goals and understanding of the problems between those with decision-making power and those whose voice often goes unheard. The Ecocitizen World Map Project places people from both ends of the spectrum on the same level and allows them to not only share the vision of a healthier and more equitable urban environment but to be a part of the impetus for solving problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Community Engagement Puts People First<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/community-engagement-puts-people-first\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Community Engagement Puts People First\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Citizens become the environmental researchers and change agents for more ecologically healthy neighborhoods and communities. &#8220;GIS\u2014and in particular, participatory GIS\u2014is about communities locating themselves, spatially, according to the environment that shapes their lives. 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