National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens

RoBotanic: a Robot Guide for Botanical Gardens. Early steps

RoBotanic is a brand new project we recently started to deliver a robotic guide for the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo. This project follows on the researches of the Robotics Lab that yelded CiceRobot, the robotic guide that has been tested in the indoor environment of the Archaeological Museum of Agrigento. In this paper we describe the goal of the new project, the design challe...

A Beginner’s Guide to Geographic Virtual Communities Research

Public Participation Geographic Information Systems

Increasing societal inclination towards participatory democracy is encouraging research on the development and use of public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS). This paper summarizes three scenarios describing actual and/or potential use of a PPGIS. One scenario concerns a public-private coalition strategy for brownfield development (urban land rehabilitation) in and near Seat...

Public Policy and the Development of a UK National Geographic Information Strategy

In March 2005 the Government published a report assessing the progress that had been made since 1999 in embracing digital technology in the UK. It declared that there had been a transformation in its use within the UK economy and civil society and that Britain had moved dramatically up international league tables in the take-up of IT and in its engagement in the e-economy. Since the Millennium,...

Recent Developments in Public Health Nursing in the Americas

This study presents an assessment of the participation and training of nurses in public health areas in the Americas. Information was gathered through a literature review and interviews with key informants from Mexico, Colombia, and Paraguay. Results demonstrate that there is significant variation in definitions of public health nursing across the region and current systematized data about the ...