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Responsible and ethical use of location data with Doug Specht

How location data should be used responsibly and ethically

  • Key Stage Three,
  • Key Stage Four,
  • Key Stage Five,
  • Podcast,
  • Interview

A conversation with Chartered Geographer Doug Specht from the University of Westminster on how location data can be used more responsibly, and why the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has signed up to the Locus Charter.

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Doug and colleagues from the University of Westminster have produced some introductory resources to provide some extra guidance and support around ethics and data use for the NEA.

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  • Roads to nowhere (.pdf)
  • Ethics and geospatial data (.pdf)
  • Locating open access resources (.pdf)
  • The ethics of open data (.pdf)
  • Defining types of data (.pdf)
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Read Doug's Geography Directions blog post

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View the Society's Locus Charter Press Release

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Find out more about the Locus Charter

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