Yair Grinberger
Dr. Yair Grinberger is a lecturer of geoinformatics at the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main interests are Geographical Information Science, OpenStreetMap Science, geo-cultural analysis, urban agent-based modeling, and mobility analysis.
Session
This talk presents a systems perspective analysis of events in October-November 2023 which started with large-scale vandalism of OpenStreetMap data in Israel and ended with the introduction of rate limiting. Noting how the project reacted in face of this unique situation and the undermining of its basic assumptions facilitating the project helps uncover resilience- and vulnerability-inducing mechanisms within it, to characterize the range of possible external influences on the project, and assess their possible outcomes.