Over the past six years, the Spatial Socio-Cultural Knowledge Workshop has
had several recurring discussion threads involving data requirements,
understanding operational needs, and tools for addressing those needs.
For the 2014 Workshop titled ‘Human Geography – Challenging the Status Quo
Through Better Use of Information’, these threads will be drawn together under
the umbrella of utility in the fields of stabilization and disaster
response. The major Workshop objectives and questions will be geared toward
answering:
- What do we need to make
socio-cultural knowledge useful?
- How do we effectively share our
knowledge and methodologies?
- Outside of the organizations
represented by Workshop attendees, who would be interested in utilizing
socio-cultural data?
- What aspects of socio-cultural
knowledge are applicable beyond the Defence sphere?
- What are the barriers to sharing
and utilizing information both within and outside the Defence sphere?
- What approaches are needed to
overcome the barriers?
- How best to create a sharable
record of what has been learned?
- How to utilize socio-cultural
knowledge to identify stability problems before they start?
- Can the
identification of information and models be formalized to enhance utility?
The workshop is expected to attract international delegates and speakers
from across the services, government, NGOs, academia and the commercial sector.
Full details of the event including the agenda, registration and logistics can
be found on the Defence
Academy
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