PDF(2.7mb) - 國家政策研究基金會

Using PPGIS to Involve Citizens in Urban Policy Planning 141
Another PPGIS application in Taiwan is a case
about the Keelung River pothole conservation. This is a
project conducted by Nangang Community College
(NCC). It used web 2.0, citizen journalists, and a
Google map to collect opinions of residents about the
delineation of a pothole conservation area along the
river. This project used two steps to involve people in
the process of policy making. First, they held a workshop
and led participants to offer a primary conservation
map proposal through using the visualized GIS and
Google map. Then, they held a public discussion meeting
to gather opinions about their primary map. Based
on these two steps and GIS technology, people could
easily understand the scope of conservation and put the
comments on the website.
Figure 4
The Google map website of Keelung River pothole conservation
VI. Conclusions
Geographical Information Systems have been increasingly
utilized in the areas of urban planning, policy
analysis, and policy evaluation from the 1960s onwards.
In these areas, GIS’s have already had proven
effectiveness. However, due to recent democratic development,
demands for public participation have increased
the academic and practical expectations of
GIS’s. Researchers began to consider the potential of
PPGIS to increase public participation in public services
in the early 1990s. Since this is still a new concept,
only a few researchers have paid attention to this
issue. It is especially difficult to find PPGIS literature
in Taiwan.
In this paper, we introduced the concept as well as
essences of PPGIS. We also briefly described two
PPGIS applications in Taiwan. We hope this paper will
attract more attention to PPGIS potential and utilize it
to tackle related issues.
References
Aangeenbrug, R. T. 1992. A Critique of GIS. In
Geographic Information Systems,Volume.1, edited by
David J. Maguire, Michael F. Goodchild and David W.
Rhind. 101-107. New York: Longman.
AI-Kodmany, Kheir. 2002. E-Community Participation:
Communicating Spatial Planning and Design
using Web-Based Maps. In Socio-Economic Applications
of Geographic Information Science, edited by
David Kidner, Gary Higgs, and Sean White, 69-92.
London: Taylor & Francis.