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Brown Bag Lunch Speakers
Throughout the academic year, the Levin College of Urban Affairs hosts brown bag lunches featuring a speaker followed by a brief discussion. Come and learn what our faculty and researchers are doing!
| Brown Bag Lunch: Spring 2008 | ||
| Date | Location | Topic |
| 4/25/08 | UR 241, Sweet Seminar Room, 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Plain Talk: A Straightforward Approach to Teen Sexuality Ronald White, Coordinator, Plain Talk Program, Harvard Community Services Center |
Plain Talk is a national model that uses a unique approach to the prevention of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health.
Bring your lunch and join us as we explore issues that need to be addressed to assist Northeast Ohio’s children.
RSVP is requested by Wednesday, April 23 to Dr. Mittie Davis Jones at m.d.jones97@csuohio.edu or 216/687-3861 OR to Mylion Waite at mwaite@cdfohio.org or 216/298-4480
| Date | Location | Topic |
| 5/5/08 | UR 27 | Public Participatory GIS with Wansoo Im, Ph.D. |
Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS) is an approach to getting the public more involved in the planning and decision making process. Despite the enormous potential of PPGIS in empowering the public to participate, there had been several obstacles of using GIS. For past several years, there has been a significant change in GIS technology since its inception, particularly with the introduction of MapQuest, Yahoo Map, Google Maps, and other GIS-related, web-based portals. These commercial web-mapping tools (freely available for public use) have allowed GIS to become a transparent part of everyday life accessible and usable to any layperson. In this presentation, Dr. Im reviews how Google Maps affected PPGIS practices, its current implications and future concerns.
About Wansoo Im, Ph. D.
Wansoo Im is the founder of VERTICES, LLC, a geospatial information services company that provides innovative and interactive map-based solutions. Dr. Im is also the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Community Mapping (CCM).
Dr. Im specializes in unique decision support systems that utilize spatial data visualization and modeling techniques. He is an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University and at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). He received his Ph.D. from the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and his Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work was featured in The New Yorker magazine for his community participatory internet mapping project in 2006 as well as in the New York Times in 2008. His recent projects utilize community participatory geographic mapping systems in government applications, statewide environmental organizations, education, and non-profit organizations.
See his work at http://www.vertices.com and http://www.ilovegis.com/
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