The Future of VGI

Abstract

Katherine is a typical citizen of the future. The year is 2030. Like most mornings, Katherine gets up and goes for a run, wearing sensors embedded in her clothes. These sensors monitor her vital signs and communicate with her smartphone, alerting her of anything unusual. With her permission, the sensors also send the data to many different places, including to her medical records, her health insurance company and a vast supercomputing facility, which uses her Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), along with that of millions of other citizens, to uncover behavioural and health patterns that can be used to provide doctors