Asynchronous Mode in the Webgis: A Challenge to Ensure Greater Popular Participation

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Porto Carreiro P., Trinta P.V., Lima T.L.. (2021) Asynchronous Mode in the Webgis: A Challenge to Ensure Greater Popular Participation. In: Gervasi O. et al. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12954. pp 507-520. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86979-3_36

The covid-19 pandemic has resumed old discussions about the virtual environments´ different functionalities needed to subsidize online activities synchronously (in real-time) or asynchronyously (not in real-time). This article discusses the inclusion of features in the webgis to ensure that their activities can be promoted in a totally asynchronous way, especially when they aim at popular participation. The discussion was developed within the Geodesign Brazil project, which promoted 12 similar workshops, between March and April 2021, each in a metropolitan region of Brazilian capitals. The project focused on the use of Geodesign supported by Giscolab (Brazilian online platform for Geodesign) to identify problems and create territorial proposals on 10 themes (water infrastructure, agriculture, green infrastructure, energy infrastructure, transport infrastructure, industry and commerce, institutional, residential, tourism and culture, carbon storage). Specifically, this article reports the experience that took place in the Recife metropolitan region’s workshop, capital of Pernambuco, state of Northeast Brazil. Since it was decided to apply asynchronous dynamics, adjustments and additions of resources were necessary to make it viable, mostly to ensure users’ interest, participation and linkage to the project. The asynchronous mode in webgis is a challenge, as it requires resources for greater clarity in the definition of activities; forms of feedback and personification of users’ paths and to incentivize the users to complete the activities proposed.