Education

• Carleton University

  Master's degree

  Spatial Data Infrastructures
  East Timor gained independent from Indonesia in Aug. 1999 & thereafter an Indonesia-backed militia destroyed critical natural resources & infrastructures. Overseas development agencies assisted with humanitarian aid, reconstruction & nation building. ET is unique, since its Constitution includes sustainable development as a key principle. Accurate and timely geospatial data can assist sustainable development decision making. Geospatial data infrastructures (GDIs) are the intersectoral, cross-domain, interdepartmental consensus-making mechanisms by which a nation can manage its geospatial data assets. Aid agencies compiled much data & rendered some maps, but these were project specific, limiting their utility & no formal body was coordinating these. ET has many data requirements & an ETGDI will help meet its constitutional mandate for SD. 7 GDIs are examined & elements are selected for a hybrid GDI. The major need is for institutional rather than technological development.
  

• Carleton University

  Bachelor Hounours with a specialization in Geographic Information Processing

  Geomatics
  Geomatics
  

• Carleton University

  Geography

  Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations
  Canadian reality is conditioned by gov. data & infrastructures. Geographical imaginations are strongly influenced by the Canadian Atlas & Census. Both inform gov. decision-making and they are not neutral as social, technical & scientific institutions nuance objectivity. These infrastructures recede into the background of gov. & shape how geography & society are imagined. Atlas & Census were empirically analyzed. Ian Hacking's dynamic Looping Effect framework of ‘Making Up People’ proved useful as a methodology geographers can adapt & apply to the study of geographical imaginations. This framework also helps structure a critical examination of discourse, in this case, Foucauldian gouvernementalité & the biopower of socio-techno-political systems, which are inextricably embedded in a social, technical & scientific milieu. While it is people who produce these objects, the infrastructures that operate in the background have technological momentum also influence actions.
  

• Carleton University

  Researcher

  
  Researcher for Alan Whiteside, Distinguished research guest and Director, Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division and Professor, University of Kwazulu-Natalon. The topic of research was AIDS Exceptionalism.
  

• Carleton University

  Researcher

  
  I remain a Research Associate with Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre. Prior to that I was a postdoctoral fellow and worked on the SSHRC Partnership Development Project entitled Mapping the Legal and Policy Boundaries of Digital Cartography which was part of the GCRC's research stream of Law, Society and Cybercartography. I was the Research Leader for the Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness funded by HRSDC and participated in activities and represented the Lab on topics related to the access to and preservation of Data. I was part of the Project Management Team for the Cybercartography and the New Economy Project and was responsible for collaboration, transdisciplinary research and organizational theory. I was also the lead researcher of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica Case Study for the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2 and lead the General Study of Archival Policies of Science Data Archives/Repositories.
  

• Carleton University

  Assistant Professor

  
  I am an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies and Big Data in the Department of Journalism and Communications, Communication Studies, at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I remain affiliated with the ERC funded Programmable City Project at the National University of Ireland Maynooth as a Research Associate, under the Directorship of Professor Rob Kitchin. My ongoing research focuses on Political Arithmetic, Territorial Geometry and Programmed Cities which entails case study work as part of Work Package 2: How are digital data materially and discursively supported and processed about cities and their citizens? 1. Re-Ontologizing the City, focusing on the transition from a national cartographic database (Prime) to an object oriented database (Prime 2) with Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) 2. Measuring Openness in the City, a critical examination of open data in Dublin, Ottawa, Montreal and Boston. 3. The making of homeless people and calculating homelessness, by studying shelter intake systems, street counts and official census taking of people who are homeless in Dublin, Ottawa and Boston. 4. The making of the Irish small area file. My research focus is part of a new field entitled Critical Data Studies, and my specific areas of interest are data, infrastructures and geographical imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data and big data and society. I am also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to data and their related infrastructures.