There has been a lot of work related to Participatory or Public Participation GIS (P*GIS I guess) in the academia. There are numerous examples of people doing amazing work introducing GIS outside the confines it was residing thus far. From getting community organizations to use GIS, to getting every day people to perform GIS analysis for various purposes, P*GIS has seen tremendous work thus far. We have indeed reached a stage in which a single component of GIS has become participatory, but more remain. Continue reading »