{"id":14100,"date":"2018-03-26T18:02:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/observatorylatinamerica.org\/?p=14100"},"modified":"2020-09-14T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:10:46","slug":"investigacion-del-ola-encuentra-en-google-street-view-una-divsion-digital-en-cuestiones-de-medio-ambiente-asentamientos-informales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/observatorylatinamerica.org\/es\/investigacion-del-ola-encuentra-en-google-street-view-una-divsion-digital-en-cuestiones-de-medio-ambiente-asentamientos-informales\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigaci\u00f3n del OLA encuentra en Google Street View una \u00abDivsi\u00f3n Digital\u00bb en cuestiones de medio ambiente, asentamientos informales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Publicado en The New School News (en ingl\u00e9s), ver<\/a><\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago, a team of researchers from SGPIA headed to Kuala Lumpur to present their research at the 9th annual World Urban Forum. The team from SGPIA worked with a team from the University of Buenos Aires and found a \u00abdigital divide\u00bb: gaps in information presented in Google Street View – specifically when it came to the living and environmental conditions in Buenos Aires’ villas miserias, or informal slums. Professor Margarita Gutman argues that when policy makers use Google Street View as a proxy for the formal city<\/a>, the divide leaves millions vulnerable of being left behind in the era of high tech data gathering. Somewhere data gathering is ramping up? The favela’s of Rio de Janeiro. Last week, in a controversial move, the government sent the army to take over the local police forces after an uptick in violence. Photos of soldiers taking photographic inventory of favela residents spread across social media, garnering criticism and comparison to the actions of the military dictatorship. One thing is for sure: informality leads to vulnerability – and can social impair inclusion and human rights.<\/div>\n

The gaps in information are keeping researchers and policy analysts in the dark on the extent of the problems in villas mis\u00e9rias, according to a team of researchers at The New School and the University of Buenos Aires. They warn of an emerging \u00aburban digital divide\u00bb between places visible on Google Street View and those that are not.<\/p>\n

For years, Arroyo Sarand\u00ed, a stream that snakes through the working class suburb of Avellaneda in Buenos Aires, has fallen victim to industrial use. Pollution and trash have caused serious flooding and health issues for the people living in villas mis\u00e9rias, or slums, along the river banks.<\/p>\n

But you wouldn’t know any of that by looking at Google Street View of Avellaneda: Neither the slums nor the environmental issues impacting it appear there.<\/p>\n

\u00abAs part of our research, we discovered that Google Street View does not in many cases cover slum neighborhoods or the specific environmental problem areas that have been the subject of many online claims and complaints by neighborhood residents,\u00bb said Margarita Gutman, Professor of Urban Studies and International Affairs, who recently presented her research during this month’s World Urban Forum 9 (WUF9) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. \u00abThe significance of this finding is that many researchers and policy analysts rely on the information provided by Google Street View.\u00bb<\/p>\n

At a time when Google Street View can display minute details of a range of environments, Gutman and her team of researchers worry that the Silicon Valley cartography tool is erasing from public view threatening conditions impacting hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people.<\/p>\n

\u00abThe missing data limits awareness of this pressing issue, thus impeding the potential for research to address it,\u00bb says Gutman, whose research team is supported by the Studley Faculty Research Fund in the Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs (SGPIA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The gaps in Google Map data raise a larger issue. Gutman and her team warn that the estimated one billion people living in urban informality throughout the world \u2014 fully one-seventh of humanity \u2014 are at a risk of being left behind in the era of high-tech data gathering. In researching and reporting on this issue, they hope to raise awareness among urban professionals who use metrics and measurement to define municipal priorities.<\/p>\n

This project is the second phase of Gutman’s 10-year research project about the future of urban conditions in Buenos Aires. In 2011, Gutman published a book detailing her research, Buenos Aires: El Poder de la Anticipaci\u00f3n. Im\u00e1genes itinerantes del futuro metropolitano en torno al Centenario.<\/p>\n

The New School’s participation in the WUF 9 was organized by the Global Urban Futures (GUF)<\/a> project, based in SGPIA and the Milano School<\/a> PhD Program in Public and Urban Policy<\/a>. The GUF includes Michael Cohen, Professor of International Affairs; Lena Simet and David Lopez, PhD candidates in Public and Urban Policy; and Ayesha Issadeen, MA International Affairs ’18.<\/p>\n

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