Human error 404: Barriers and promoters sharing geospatial information. The case of Quito

Authors

  • Fernando Xavier Puente Sotomayor Central University of Ecuador

Keywords:

Information Sharing, Information Management, Land Data

Abstract

The use of New Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for integrated management in the City Council of Quito was stated in the Equinoccio Siglo XXI plan as one of its goals to the year 2025. Nonetheless, in 2006, almost at the beginning of the plan, the state of the situation showed that the municipal organization departed from an automation phase and barely achieved a minimal optimization, particularly regarded to geospatial information. This is demonstrated through this study, which is heuristic, and was applied by interviewing subjects from three operative units, whose opinions were categorized into barriers and promoters to achieve an integrated geospatial information management. Just as theory determined, obstacles for integrated management reside in human factors. Particularly, these factors involve culture, fear, willingness, archaisms, demotivation, non-participation, no strategy, and red-tape procedures.

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Author Biography

Fernando Xavier Puente Sotomayor, Central University of Ecuador

Arquitecto, M.A. Gestión y Desarrollo Urbano, Ph.D. (c) Planificación Urbana. Docente de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo

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Published

2018-01-16

How to Cite

Puente Sotomayor, F. X. (2018). Human error 404: Barriers and promoters sharing geospatial information. The case of Quito. Revista Ciencias Sociales, 1(39), 17–26. Retrieved from https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/CSOCIALES/article/view/999