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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">GeoEthics is an important topic that needs more attention and GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues are a way to build and share ideas for developing GeoEthics and ethical business practices.</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><b class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0">Why there is a need for GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues?</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">“The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed." - Mahatma Gandhi </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">There is a need to promote greater understanding of GeoEthics and ethical business practices.</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">There has been some information of unethical business practices by some GIS vendors from pay discrimination against female employees to</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">vendor lobbying to racism etc . GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues are a way to build and share ideas for developing GeoEthics and ethical business practices. These GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues
are informal and can be part of any meetings, events etc (for example in Geography awareness week, GIS Day, OGC meetings, GEO meetings etc) to build and share ideas for developing GeoEthics and ethical business practices in all GIS companies and organisations.</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Some example ethics topics below.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Study to understand the scale of Racial Injustice in Geographic Information Science/Earth Observation Research and Education</span></p>
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<span style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">GeoEthics is an important topic that needs more attention and GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues are a way to discuss and share information
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</span><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">So start GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues in your organisations, universities , companies, SMEs etc</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">These GeoEthics Awareness Dialogues are informal and can be part of any meetings, events, conferences etc in</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> the
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Ethical frameworks in governance at all levels (from global to national to local) are important to protect democracy, protect human rights and prevent corruption.</span><br class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0">
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