Dangers of commercialising public data

The commercialisation of local spatial knowledge is an emerging problem across communities all around the world. Users creating spatial and attributive data through the use of commercial tools such as Google Map Maker, are extending corporate databases, but aren’t able to use the very same data when they need to… (more)

CAMP for change in the Bojanala Region of North West Province

Community engagement has become a core responsibility of higher education, alongside teaching and research. The community engagement focus of the Department of Geography at UNISA is the project “Roots Driven Rural Development” which is conducted in collaboration with a non-governmental organisation.. (more)

The commercialisation of public data – how does participatory data-mining look on a global scale?

The commercialisation of local spatial knowledge is an emerging problem across communities all around the world. Users creating spatial and attributive data through the use of commercial tools such as Google Map Maker, are extending corporate databases, but aren’t able to use the very same data when they need to… (more)