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Ethics & GIS
Welcome to the Oregon State University Ethics & GIS class project!
(GEO 599, Ethics for GIS Professionals, Fall 2005, 3 credits)
See also the recent course, now GEO 567
When approaching challenging issues in GIS technology, such as how a technology may be used maliciously in the future, there are many pitfalls. The use of certain words evokes strong reactions and images, obscuring the concepts and key points.
The content on this web site is intended to discuss modern slavery and human tracking and how it relates to GIS. It seeks to identify key ethical elements surrounding human tracking, and to examine the issues and players. The web site is broken into four main sections:
- A response to the Dobson and Fisher article.
- What is needed in GIS in order to make it more ethical with respect to human tracking?
- Modern slavery & human trafficking facts.
- Solving the ethical dilemmas of human tracking and monitoring.
The content on this site was created by Oregon State GEO 599 students for their student colleagues in the Fall 2005 UCGIS Ethics and GIS Virtual Seminar (i.e., students from Penn State, U. of Minnesota, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ohio State U.). For more information on the seminar, see www.e-education.psu.edu/courses/geog597e.