Descripción del proyecto
INTRODUCTION, VIRTUAL GLOBES ARE SOFTWARE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE EARTH TO WHICH INCREASING LAYERS OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DATASETS ARE ADDED, THEY ARE BEING INCREASINGLY USED IN PUBLIC TELEVISION AND, ESPECIALLY THE INTERNET SINCE THE APPEARANCE OF EARTH,GOOGLE,COM, THIS MAY HAPPEN GLOBALLY, BUT THERE ARE RESTRICTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES AT THE MACRO-REGIONAL, NATIONAL, AND SUB-NATIONAL LEVELS,GOALS, THE MAIN GOAL OF THE NEW GLOVIR PROJECT IS TO IDENTIFY AND THEORISE THE KEY GLOBAL MULTI-LEVEL ACTORS, AND THE FACTORS AFFECTING THEIR BEHAVIOUR, BEHIND THE DISSEMINATION OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DATASETS USING VIRTUAL GLOBES IN THE GLOBALISING MEDIA, GLOVIR¿S RESEARCH GROUP HAS THEORETICAL, EMPIRICAL AND SOME FINAL PRESCRIPTIVE GOALS, ¿ WHICH ARE THE KEY ACTORS GOVERNING VIRTUAL GLOBES? ARE THEY PUBLIC GOVERNMENTS, OR PRIVATE ACTORS, OR A COMPLEX MIX THAT REQUIRE NEW CONCEPTUALIZATIONS? AT WHAT LEVELS ARE VIRTUAL GLOBES BEING MORE USED? WHAT ARE THE INTERACTION AMONG ACTORS AND LEVELS?¿ WHAT ARE THE KEY POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS SHAPING THE GOVERNANCE OF VIRTUAL GLOBES? ARE POLITICAL FACTORS THE MAIN FACTORS?¿ WHAT LESSONS MAY BE DRAWN FOR ACADEMIA, GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESSES?METHODOLOGY, GLOVIR WILL PERFORM CASE STUDIES AT DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL LEVELS: EARTH GOOGLE AND UNDP (GLOBALLY), THE EU, AND MERCOSUR OR ASEAN (MACRO-REGIONALLY), THE US AND SPAIN (NATIONALLY), ANDALUCIA AND CATALONIA (SUB-NATIONALLY), EACH OF THE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE TEAM (BASED AT IBEI-BARCELONA, UNIV, PRINCETON, CEPC-MADRID, AND UNIV, SEVILLE) WILL LEAD THE CASES AT ONE LEVEL, WE PLAN TO INTERVIEW THE MAIN ACTORS AND OBTAIN RELEVANT GOVERNANCE DATA, WE WILL HOLD YEARLY WORKSHOPS, AND PARTICIPATE IN CONFERENCES, OUTPUT, WE WILL PRODUCE SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, ALTERNATIVELY, WE MAY PRODUCE A COHERENT BOOK PROJECT, WE ALSO PLAN TO INCLUDE A SUMMARY ARTICLE/CHAPTER WITH PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ACADEMIA, POLICY MAKERS AND THE BUSINESS WORLD,DISSEMINATION: A TECHNICIAN-IN-TRAINING BASED MAINLY IN SEVILLE WILL SUPPORT GLOVIR CREATING A DATABASE DESCRIBING TECHNICAL AND GOVERNANCE FACTORS OF VIRTUAL GLOVES, AND DISSEMINATING FINDINGS AND RESULTS WITHIN THE GROUP AND EXTERNALLY, MAINLY THROUGH AN INTERNET/INTRANET PORTAL (WWW,GLOVIR,EU), AND A PERIODIC NEWSLETTER, THE FIRM GEOVIRTUAL,COM, BASED IN BARCELONA, IS OUR EPO (PROMOTER-OBSERVER ENTITY), GLOBAL\REGIONAL\MULTINIVEL\GOBERNANZA\MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION\ATLAS\VIRTUAL GLOBE