Paper Info
Title
Shaping digital earth applications through open innovation - setting the scene for a digital earth living lab.
Abstract
Science and policy increasingly request for sustainable development and growth. Similarly, Digital Earth undergoes a paradigm shift to an open platform that actively supports user engagement. While the public becomes able to contribute new content, we recognize a gap in user-driven validation, feedback and requirements capture, and innovative application development. Rather than defining Digital Earth applications top down, we see a need for methods and tools that will help building applications bottom up and driven by community needs. These should include a technology toolbox of geospatial and environmental enablers, which allow to access functional building blocks and content in multiple ways, but - equally important - enable the collaboration within partially unknown stakeholder networks. The validation and testing in real-life scenarios will be a central requirement when approaching the Digital Earth 2020 goals, which were articulated recently. We particularly argue to follow a Living Lab approach for co-creation and awareness rising in relation to environmental and geospatial matters. We explain why and how such a Digital Earth Living Lab could lead to a sustainable approach for developing, deploying, and using Digital Earth applications and suggest a paradigm shift for Virtual Globes becoming forums for research and innovation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1080/17538947.2013.804600
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTH
Keywords
Field
DocType
sustainable development,open innovation,stakeholder engagement,living laboratories,governance methodologies,virtual globes
Geospatial analysis,Data science,Data mining,Digital Earth,Open platform,Computer science,Paradigm shift,Knowledge management,Open innovation,Living lab,Sustainable development,Stakeholder engagement
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
SP7.0
1753-8947
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sven Schade132130.84
Carlos Granell233628.70