GIS-Pro 2024

Practical Ethics for GIS Professionals - Full-Day Workshop
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Instructors: Rebecca Somers, GISP, President, Somers St Claire GIS Management Consultants, Fairfax, VA
David DiBiase, GISP, Adjunct Instructor, Penn State Online Geospatial Programs,  Yucaipa CA 

Every GIS Professional needs a solid understanding of ethics related to GIS work, and the ability to recognize and successfully solve challenging ethics situations. This workshop will help GIS Professionals understand the foundations of ethics, revisit the 20-year-old GIS Code of Ethics, and hone their ethical problem-solving skills.

The workshop is highly participative, focusing on:
• The GIS Code of Ethics and how it fits into larger ethical frameworks
• Framework for ethical decision making
• Individual ethics case analysis
• Group ethics case analysis
• GIS ethics issues
• Review and evaluation of the GIS Code of Ethics
• Ethics resources that would be useful for GIS Professionals

Learning Benefits:
• Learn how to recognize and solve challenging GIS Ethics situations
• Gain experience applying a framework for ethical decision making and using other resources to help respond with insight, empathy, and integrity to ethical challenges encountered in geospatial work.
• Evaluate the adequacy of the 2003 GIS Code of Ethics in light of issues arising more recently in geospatial practice.
• Be prepared to adapt, supplement and use resources to apply ethics in their own work and promote ethics within their own organizations.

The work involves reference to many case studies, exercise materials, and reference materials, so participants should bring their own computers for access to this material.

Cost: One full-day or one half-day workshop is included with full conference registration. The cost to add a second half-day workshop is $100 member/$125 nonmember.