TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital earth applications in the twenty-first century
AU - de By, R.A.
AU - Georgiadou, P.Y.
N1 - Special Issue: Digital Earth Applications: Technological design and Organisational Strategies
PY - 2014/1/14
Y1 - 2014/1/14
N2 - In these early years of the twenty-first century, we must look at how the truly cross-cutting information technology supports other innovations, and how it will fundamentally change the information positions of government, private sector and the scientific domain as well as the citizen. In those positions, location will be a prominent linking pin. The classical top-down system architectures of information exchange will be diluted by peer-to-peer and bottom-up channels, forcing us to rethink their designs. We should not only focus on better architectures, but need to attend to a different economy of information exchange, in which the ‘client’ is not only the information sink, but has become an important source as well. The laws of this rising ‘infoconomy’ have yet to be settled on. This special issue on ‘Digital Earth Applications: Technological design and organizational strategies’ brings together a number of papers that shed light on this future information ecosystem in which location-specific information will be exchanged between stakeholders. The introduction presents a framework that combines geoinformation streams and organisations brokering between government, science, private sector and citizens. This novel framework helps us improve the appreciation of those papers
AB - In these early years of the twenty-first century, we must look at how the truly cross-cutting information technology supports other innovations, and how it will fundamentally change the information positions of government, private sector and the scientific domain as well as the citizen. In those positions, location will be a prominent linking pin. The classical top-down system architectures of information exchange will be diluted by peer-to-peer and bottom-up channels, forcing us to rethink their designs. We should not only focus on better architectures, but need to attend to a different economy of information exchange, in which the ‘client’ is not only the information sink, but has become an important source as well. The laws of this rising ‘infoconomy’ have yet to be settled on. This special issue on ‘Digital Earth Applications: Technological design and organizational strategies’ brings together a number of papers that shed light on this future information ecosystem in which location-specific information will be exchanged between stakeholders. The introduction presents a framework that combines geoinformation streams and organisations brokering between government, science, private sector and citizens. This novel framework helps us improve the appreciation of those papers
KW - METIS-299189
KW - ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2013.861522
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://webapps.itc.utwente.nl/library/2014/isi/georgiadou_dig.pdf
U2 - 10.1080/17538947.2013.861522
DO - 10.1080/17538947.2013.861522
M3 - Article
VL - 7
SP - 511
EP - 515
JO - International journal of digital earth
JF - International journal of digital earth
SN - 1753-8947
IS - 7
ER -