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A Study on Social Value and Publicity of Geospatial Information - by focusing on engagement of the people disadvantaged
in using and accessing geospatial information -
Kang HaeKyong, Lim Yongho, Cho Panki, Kim KiHyun, Oh YoungJin
Key words: Rural Planning System, Rural Development, Land Use, Rural Area
Over the past two decades, the government-driven geospatial information policy has led to the expansion of the use of geospatial information by citizens, with the number of map service users reaching about 40 million per month.
The demand for using maps to enhance the convenience of living will increase for those who are vulnerable to mobility due to the increase in the incidence of disability among elderly people over 65 years old as it becomes an aging society. However, geospatial information services for the vulnerable, including the disabled and the elderly, are less economical, so web-map portal companies such as Naver, Kakao and Google have lack of interest for providing those services. For this reason, it is necessary for government to provide Geospatial Information Service for the underprivileged people in terms of the government's willingness to increase the publicity of geospatial information. In order to
SUMMARY ․ 137 respond to changes in the policy environment towards considering social values and contribute to the government's willingness to practice social values, geospatial information policy should also be reformed.
This study aims to contribute to the realization of social value and publicity of geospatial information by exploring the geospatial information policy that embraces the vulnerable groups of the disabled, the elderly, and others who have been alienated from the existing geospatial information policy. This study is organized as follows. In Chapter 2, theoretical reviews and concepts related to social value and publicity of geospatial information were defined. In Chapter 3, the basic status related to the social value of geospatial information was investigated. In particular, we analyzed the size of the vulnerable class, the status of the geospatial information provided to the vulnerable, the difficulties of access and utilization, the status of the legal system and others. In Chapter 4, it was summarized the implications by surveying domestic and international case studies that realize social values using geospatial information. Chapter 5 presents an inclusive geospatial information policy that creates social values through the support of the vulnerable class of geospatial information like elderly.
In short, as a reformed direction of the geospatial information policy that embraces the vulnerable class who have difficulty to access and to use geospatial information, it was proposed that a local-driven geospatial information policy led by local government and citizen participation in cooperation with local private actor rather than the central government (supply-oriented). It also proposed that a revised legal system and a promotion system of geospatial information policy to transform the geospatial information policy to include the vulnerable groups.
The policy proposed in this study is expected to contribute the realization of
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five types of social values among the thirteen types of social value defined by ISO, United Nations and Ministry of the Interior and Safety of Korea which were embracing socially underprivileged (social value type 5), creating jobs (social value type 7), community restoration (social value type 8), boosting local economy (social value type 9) and citizen participation (social value type 12).
