GEOG 483Civic Technology and Digital Infrastructures

Units: 0.50
Faculty: Environment
Subject: Geography and Environmental Management

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

Ran in 1 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

A critical approach to the development, implementation, and evaluation of civic technology and smart cities, with a focus on practical implementation considerations. Topics covered include open data, urban data collection and analysis platforms, digital inequalities, locational privacy, and digital infrastructures.

Prerequisites

Students must be in level 3A or higher

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

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Course has been revamped from past offerings, and now includes a civic technology project. Course is overall very interesting, and assignments (three essays) were not difficult at all. Final assignment was very fun as well, would recommend taking this course if you're interested in working for the public service.

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Winter 2016

Apr 1, 2016 Geomatics to now be offered under the math faculty for 2016-17, students in the Geomatics in the environment faculty can transfer given few prerequisites 105 points, 19 comments

u/Huex3: “… 444 Statistical Learning - Function Estimation GEOG 410 Global Navigation Satellite Systems GEOG 483 Geoweb and Location-Based Services GEOG 487 Management Issues in Geographic Information Systems CO 342 Introduction to Graph Theory CO 351 Network Flow Theory CO 353 …”

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