Welcome to the Bornholm webpage of Greenmapper Friends. On this page we briefly introduce the joint scientific experiment of the University of Groningen and BOFA.
What is Greenmapper Friends?
GreenMapper Friends is a scientific experiment with geographics in focus. It provides insights on how people cherish nature and what is the best for nature. In the case of Bornholm, we invite people as “citizen scientists” to explore how to effectively use Material Bank to achieve Zero Waste 2032.
How does GreenMapper Friends work?
Mapping favorite nature spots: GreenMapper uses new online technology that allows people to map which places with nature they like and why. This knowledge is important for the local, regional, and national stakeholders to understand why people love certain nature spots.
Online friend of your nature places through communities: We invite BOFA to create communities of Bornholm. Once your mapped area overlaps with (part of) Bornholm, you will be a “landscape friend” in contact with BOFA and (in the future) other stakeholders.
Participation in the experiment of the Bornholm community: As an online landscape friend of Bornholm, you can participate in ongoing research, giving your opinion in various ways and you can participate in funding projects. With all these things you can influence the decision-making, management and protection of the area you love.
Contribute to Material Bank Project? We develop two experiments about Material Bank Project: (1) We initiate an online polling system via Pol.is, where you indicate whether you agree with certain statements, and you can also contribute statements yourself that others will then vote for; (2) You can set virtual pledge funding for this project — but please specify where you want this money to go and in which use. If the experiments are successful, it will be a powerful to feul real funding projects in the future!
How can I participate?
Step 1: Map four favorite nature spots on the map via Greenmapper
Firstly, you mark where you live. For privacy, you don’t mark your exact address, but approximately where you live.Then draw four favorite nature spots on the map that are attractive, valuable or important to you. A place near where you live, a place in the region, a place somewhere in the country and finally a place somewhere in the world.
Step 2: Participate in discussions and respond to statements via Pol.is
When you are done putting the places on the map, you will enter the GreenMapper Hvaler community. There you will find the discussion through theses about recreation pressure and nature (Pol.is).
Are you in? There are statements. For each statement you can vote ‘Agree’, ‘Disagree’ and ‘Uncertain’. Maybe you think very differently. Give your opinion and submit it so that others can vote for your idea.
At the end, we visualize what everyone agrees and what they don’t and whether there are different groups. You can also see the first results later. And we will keep you informed of the further results.
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Step 3: Virtual Pledge Funding
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Disclaimer!
Greenmapper Friends is an experimental scientific software but we invite the public to be our tester and “citizen scientists”!
If you compare it with a simple written survey Greenmapper stands out as visually attractive and interactive tool. If you compare to big tech applications you may still find it far less fluent and user-friendly. Bear with us!