ABSTRACT
Community resilience can be better achieved with geospatial information and technology, but only if people can determine what needs to be done for them to be accepted by communities. The challenge of trust, and concern about what else might be done with personal data beyond its initial purpose, need to be addressed to enable geospatial information to be used effectively to plan and manage resilient communities. Emerging technologies offer the opportunity to monitor our cities in real-time and gain an unprecedented level of location intelligence from a range of inputs – including mobile and wearable devices and other sensors that can identify an individual or household. Open data is critical to smart growth and urbanisation. Government, industry and communities can work together to: build trust and a mutual understanding of benefits technology offers to building resilient communities; provide expected levels of geospatial data security and privacy and; develop the standards and legislation that underpin these factors.
