Shashank Srinivasan’s scientific contributions

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Mapping the Tso Kar basin in Ladakh
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April 2012

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The Journal of Community Informatics

Shashank Srinivasan

High-altitude wetlands are critical ecosystems at risk from global climatic changes and local human activities. Management plans for the conservation of these wetlands require spatial information, from remote sensing data and from local human communities. I describe my research aims and methodology working with the Changpa, a nomadic pastoral community who inhabit the high-altitude regions around the Tso Kar basin wetlands in Ladakh, India.

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... With open data, the argument runs, there is the possibility for local communities to build up their own understandings and interpretations of key issues, and for intermediaries to contextualise information in ways that make sense to diverse groups, including citizens at the grassroots. Through print-outs, mobile phone-based services, offline access, community radio, and participatory workshops (De Boer et al., 2012;Lee, 2014) data can be taken to local settings -empowering previously marginalised groups, and can provide the basis for feedback loops that enable local communities to shape the knowledge base on which policies are based (Custer, 2012;Gigler, Custer, & Bailur, 2014;Srinivasan, 2012). However, as Gurstein (2011) has noted, open data alone does not necessarily equate to empowerment, and there is a risk that a 'data divide' is created, where data only empowers the already empowered (Gurstein, 2011). ...

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Researching the emerging impacts of open data: revisiting the ODDC conceptual framework
Mapping the Tso Kar basin in Ladakh
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  • April 2012

The Journal of Community Informatics