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Building Interactive Land Monitoring Reports for Promoting Well-Communication with the General Public
Lee Youngjoo, Oh Changwha et al.
Key words : interactive map, land monitoring report, public consensus-making, evidence briefs for policy, data dashboard
The research on converging data from various related fields is one of the requirements to effectively drive the key projects for drafting national and regional land related policies of governments. It is necessary to support the process of drawing social consensus by coming up with data containing national land policy related issues and promoting communications among diverse fields and knowledge fusion. To achieve the goal, researches on rising issues on developing national and regional policies need to be carried out for in-depth diagnostic. In the process of diagnosing local issues and drawing solutions, data needs to be collected, modified, analyzed and visualized to promote the communications among and strengthening the collaborations with the general public as well as professionals.
The objective of this research is to draft the framework of building interactive communities where data-driven research outcomes for policy supports are readily shared by producing interactive land monitoring report. As
SUMMARY ․ 73 such, firstly, multi-dimensional analyses are carried out to make in-depth diagnosis of national and regional land issues including urban regeneration.
Secondly, the land diagnostic results are shared in the form of not only static maps and graphs, but also web-based interactive mapping to make public the data-driven issues. Thirdly, data analysis outcomes are open to public in the form of map, graph, statistic, text information to share opinions. Eventually, built upon the collaborative framework are the supporting systems for promoting participations and communications among various parties, institutions, personnels concerning policy issues, enhancing convergence research dealing with diagnostics of problems, interpretations of outcomes, and drafting national and regional land policies, etc.
The research objective is composed of three parts to highlight. Firstly, it provides the framework of establishing interactive land monitoring report to promote communications with the general public. While the current monitoring report and brief contains static information, ‘interactive land monitoring report’ pursues to make evidence-based interactive briefs for policy by utilizing the geospatial information technologies. To make many relevant policy personnels to draft policies through communications, it is important to create consensus on the concerned policy issues open to public in a evidence-based manner, unachievable by the solely verbal discussions. As such, interactive land monitoring report covers conceptually the contents as well as the physical environment that enables participations in policy issues and communications among participants by sharing the quantified information in the forms of map, graph, statistic drawing upon the diagnosis outcomes of land related issues and by exchanging opinions and knowledges. The key aspects for creating the report is founded on interactive mapping technology, not the static information such as the sole figures. Interactive land monitoring report needs
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to include three key conceptual keyword: evidence-based, communication-based, interdisciplinarity-based.
Secondly, the research proposes the components, establishment protocol and process of the interactive monitoring report, which were demonstrated by 1)diagnosing where specific local areas are deteriorated based on population and building data and 2)presenting the information on the distribution of earthquake-resistant buildings as well. In response to the issue of urban regeneration, the first demonstration is made to monitor which local areas need to be selected as the project districts to invest public money with priority by analyzing the level of declination using population and building data. In detail, the size of population and the number of buildings in the square cells of 500m x 500m are calculated as the quantities indicating the degree of deterioration. The quantities aggregated into the grid cells are, in turn, utilized to draw graphs, statistics, maps and interpretations of story texts. In addition, the diagnosis outcomes are designed to be superimposed to the spatial information showing the urban regeneration new deal project district boundaries. In response to the timely domestic issue of earthquake, the second demonstration presents the spatial distribution of earthquake-resistant building nationwide in the form of report. The buildings required to apply earthquake-resistant design regulations and protocols are selected based on the attribute information in building register and analyzed to provide maps, graphs, statistics including national trend information. The user can explore the interested local areas by utilizing all these tools. Summarily, interactive land monitoring report is designed such that multi-faceted aspects of the concerned issues are explored unachievable in such a manner of simply using the one-way brief/report and static visualization.
Lastly, provided are some ways of enhancing the land monitoring report
SUMMARY ․ 75 widely. First one is to expand the IT infrastructure, of which innovation has accelerated the change in the way of raising the issues and participating in the discussion open to public using smart phone and SNS. This sort of change necessitate the methodological switch-over towards diagnosing problems and publicizing issues that can be figured not only by specific professional groups but by various policy making personnels and institutions via communicating and participating. Founded upon the efforts to establishing the inter-governmental institutional environments supporting to drive evicence-based policies, the actions and tasks pertinent to the environmental changes need to be followed.
Second one is to prepare the data-driven platform where communications among personnels with various interests can be effectively made based upon their participations in the processes of recognizing problems to solutions. The accumulated information generated in the communication and participation process needs to be re-used and/or modified if necessary in the form of big-data so that positive feedback loop be created, leading to relevant methodology development supporting land policy in response to the era of AI.
Third one is to enhance the tools towards ensuring the persistent use of the interactive land monitoring report. The requirement to this end includes data acquisition accelerating the participations and communications from various interested personnels, development of analysis and communication-promoting tools, data re-collection tools and training program, all of which are critical components to make interactive land monitoring report to be successfully built and utilized. Fourth one is to organize the professional institutions responsible for collecting and analyzing data, interpreting outcomes, re-collecting feedback data and follow-up analysis for the purpose of coming up with land related policy issues.