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The Potential to Harness Crowd Sourcing Strategies for Amassing and Vetting Socio-Cultural Dynamics Data on the Open Web AND MapStorytelling as Medium for Enabling Decisionmaking Dr. Christopher K. Tucker Chairman/CEO of The MapStory Foundation.

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  1. The Potential to Harness Crowd Sourcing Strategies for Amassing and Vetting Socio-Cultural Dynamics Data on the Open Web AND MapStorytelling as Medium for Enabling Decisionmaking Dr. Christopher K. Tucker Chairman/CEO of The MapStory Foundation

  2. The MapStory Foundation was established in order to enable more effective research into socio-cultural dynamics worldwide, better our citizens' education about the peoples of the world, reduce social conflict, and improve global security.

  3. The MapStory initiative seeks to develop a social media channel/platform that enables a global community of experts to “crowd source” socio-cultural data within a geospatial and temporal framework. MapStory is also intended to be an infrastructure enabling “MapStorytelling” as a means of communicating important socio-cultural dynamics to a global audience.

  4. Central Premise • There is a long history of using the internet to accumulate and organize expert knowledge. • Social media technologies are enabling vast communities to gather and adjudicate many different kinds of data. • Geospatial open source technologies now provide geospatially- and temporally-enabled frameworks for value adding and managing complex data. • There is an enormous volume of valuable data on worldwide socio-cultural dynamics that is not geospatially or temporally persisted or searchable.

  5. Central Premise • There are an increasing number of providers of socio-cultural dynamics data that are desperately seeking opportunities to have their data be used. • There is no publicly available repository capable of enabling the accumulation of crowd-sourced socio-cultural dynamics data within a geospatially- and temporally-enabled framework. • There is no magic USG data repository on socio-cultural dynamics that addresses the geographies of geo-strategic or potential crisis interest. • All of the people in this community seek to convey their knowledge by telling stories, and often use maps to tell stories. But, the current medium of conveying this knowledge is too static.

  6. Slavery, Diasporas and Remittances Energy, Natural Resource Extraction and Processing Villages, Towns, Cities and Slums Genocide, Human Rights Abuses, and Human Trafficking Biological Stress, Extinction, and Invasive Species Wars, Battles, Treaties, and Borders Tribes, Clans and Nomadic Peoples Crops, Domesticated Animals and Trades State Failure Hydrography, Waterways, and Transportation Armed Groups Finance, Manufacturing and Trade Empires, Kingdoms and Dynasties

  7. To Schema or Not to Schema Ethnicity Religion Demographics Language Land use, cover, ownership Economics Education Medical/health environment Groups (social, political, ideological) Communication/media preferences Transportation Significant events (history) Water - water runs through everything.

  8. The Architecture of Participation The MapStory approach to crowd sourcing socio-cultural data into a geospatially- and temporally-enabled framework depends upon: Consensus based Schema Evolution: Departing from a collective schema fractures any community coherence. But semantic mappings can be value-added. High Attribution: All contributors must be unambiguously identified as members of the MapStory community. Structured Dispute Resolution: Means must be provided for multiple MapStory contributors to resolve differences, resulting in a “best of” representation of data, with a transparent lineage.

  9. Endless MapStorytelling http://ecaimaps.berkeley.edu/animations/2003_03_khmer_animation.swf http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhode_Island_counties_timeline.gif http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/timeline-map.html http://www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/wwtwo_map_overlord/index_embed.shtml http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/ushistory/ww2/ww2maps.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8CZAKSsNA http://www.historyanimated.com/Iwo.html

  10. The Power of MapStories and MapStorytelling MapStories are simply a container for expressing one’s thoughts based on discrete and documented data sources, in a way that is broadly accessible to the larger world. MapStorytelling is inherently inter-disciplinary, and provides the common integrative framework of place and time for melding socio-cultural dynamics data from many sources. MapStorytelling is medium for achieving dialog on complex interdisciplinary issues, where multiple storytellers can draw upon a common pool of underlying data sources in order to challenge each other’s analysis in a coherent manner. MapStorytelling can become a communal activity, where the basis for one’s MapStory can be the beginning of another’s MapStory challenge.

  11. MapStorytelling Challenges There is no repository of common socio-cultural data from which to easily draw, or to which one can easily contribute, so everyone reinvents the wheel when telling MapStories. There is no easily accessible, easy to use toolkit for composing MapStories. One person’s MapStory cannot serve as the basis for communal dialog because the underlying data is never accessible for rebuttal, improvement, or re-use. There is no common global “content channel” for the expression of MapStories, and therefore we live in a world of lone MapStorytellers, rather than a community of rich interaction amongst MapStorytellers.

  12. About MapStory Subscribe to MapStory Updates Donate and Support MapStory! Merchandise You are not logged in: Login or Signup GeoPolitics/GeoStrategy | Slavery and Diasporas | Armed Groups | Empires, Kingdoms and Dynasties | Tribes, Clans, Nomadic Peoples Learn How to Author MapStories How to Contribute Story Layers Embed Soundtracks in Your Next MapStory Rip Someone Else’s MapStory Wage a Dispute on a StoryLayer Create Your Own MapStory Page Contribute a Story Layer Introductory Video Recent MapStories Khmer Empire & Southeast Asia, 100CE – 1500 CE 1,289 Comments Create a MapStory Meet Other MapStorytellers Clover-College Park, Alexandria, VA, 1741-2010 147 Comments Browse MapStor Now! FIND Af/Pak Tribal Dynamics, 1805-2010 2,345 Comments Thinkers and Thoughts On MapStorytelling Jared Diamond Understanding the Threats to Societal Collapse Through MapStorytelling Sources of State Failure in Horn of Africa, 1965-2010 795 Comments MapStory | Story Layer Rise and Fall of Meso-American Civilizations 243 Comments Parag Khanna Lines in the Sand: Borders and Infrastructure in the Evolving Middle East Emerging Water Resource Conflicts in Central Asia 477 Comments Jeffrey Sachs Science, Geography and Poverty: A MapStory of Failure and Promise Follow MapStory on: Thomas H. Dixon Environment, Scarcity and Violence: Mapping the Sources of Human Conflict More Resources For: Students Educators Researchers PolicyMakers Business Religious Community National Security Professionals NGOs

  13. About MapStory Subscribe to MapStory Updates Donate and Support MapStory! Merchandise You are not logged in: Login or Signup GeoPolitics/GeoStrategy | Slavery and Diasporas | Armed Groups | Empires, Kingdoms and Dynasties | Tribes, Clans, Nomadic Peoples MapStory Story Layer Contributor Keyword (s) Entities Beginning End mm/dd/yyyy/(B)CE mm/dd/yyyy/(B)CE Gregorian/New Style | Julian/Old Style | Hijri/Islamic | Chinese | Hebrew Select Geography  Search Showing 8 of 296 Prev Next Go To # Theme Name Afghan Tribes 1830-2010 Susan Boyle ABOUT Pakistan Insurgency Jon Smith ABOUT Afghan Province Borders United Nations ABOUT Afghan Election Results Steve Johnson ABOUT India-Pakistan Separation Sanjay Balhotra ABOUT Afghan Population Stats US Census ABOUT Pakistan Flood Patterns ABOUT NW Frontier Ethno-Linguistics ABOUT

  14. About MapStory Subscribe to MapStory Updates Donate and Support MapStory! Merchandise You are not logged in: Login or Signup GeoPolitics/GeoStrategy | Slavery and Diasporas | Armed Groups | Empires, Kingdoms and Dynasties | Tribes, Clans, Nomadic Peoples MapStory Story Layer Contributor First Name Last Name Organization Keyword of Submission Beginning End mm/dd/yyyy/(B)CE mm/dd/yyyy/(B)CE Gregorian/New Style | Julian/Old Style | Hijri/Islamic | Chinese | Hebrew Select Geography  Search Showing 8 of 296 Prev Next Go To # Gary Lewin, EU Institute of Humanities Prof. Susan Smith, UC San Diego Prof Jim Jones, Notre Dame Prof Xavier Jimenez Oxford Edmund Stoufer National Geographic Jacob Tucker International Crisis Group Susan Turner American Museum of Natural History Muhamad Ibin American University of Beiruit

  15. About MapStory Subscribe to MapStory Updates Donate and Support MapStory! Merchandise You are not logged in: Login or Signup GeoPolitics/GeoStrategy | Slavery and Diasporas | Armed Groups | Empires, Kingdoms and Dynasties | Tribes, Clans, Nomadic Peoples Learn How to Author MapStories How to Contribute Story Layers Embed Soundtracks in Your Next MapStory Rip Someone Else’s MapStory Wage a Dispute on a StoryLayer Create Your Own MapStory Page URL Advertisement Embed It: Download MapStor.xml Rip this MapStory Similar MapStories More from this Author The Evolution of Islamic Extremism in Trans-Sahel Views: 336 Posted: 07/1/2010 234 Comments ***** Views: 1,346 Posted: 09/12/2010 750 Comments ***** Understanding the Lebanese Diaspora and Illicit Hezbollah Finance Hisbollah and its Role in an Evolving Lebanon Views: 137 Posted: 05/11/2009 12 Comments ***** Dr. Mohamad Khanna explores the disporatic remittance patterns and their link to illicit finance of terrorist activity. Comments The Abbasid Caliphate, Administrative Provinces 786-809 Views: 239 Posted: 01/19/2010 72 Comments ***** Sign Up or Log In to MapStory to comment Enter Your Comment Here Post Comment Use Facebook to sign in to MapStory Shawn commented | 3 hours ago Interesting thesis, but I am concerned that you lack adequate distinctions between the Shia, Sunni, Maronites, and Druse.

  16. Summary • There is a huge global community of experts in socio-cultural dynamics that is energized to express its knowledge geospatially and temporally. • There is a need to enable the crowd-sourcing of their knowledge on the open Web, within a geospatially- and temporally- enabled framework. • Due to the complexity of such information, there is a need for a spatially- and temporally- enabled dispute resolution space that allows experts to iterative converge on the best possible representation of human dynamics. • Millions from many different communities could benefit from a utility and form for engaging in spatially- and temporally- enabled story-telling about human dynamics. • The MapStory initiative, and the challenges it faces, would benefit greatly from a rich, interdisciplinary university community of social scientists, natural scientists, computer scientists, management and strategy scholars, and bright students of all kinds.

  17. tucker@mapstory.org 703-981-9373

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