SISTEMA DE INFORMAÇÃO GEOGRÁFICA PARTICIPATIVO - SIG - P: PROPOSTA DE AÇÃO COLETIVA EM ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS PARA GOVERNANÇA URBANA.

Knowing the physical space and the social and functional organization of the place where one lives can lead the citizen to exercise citizenship, and education plays an important role when building up this knowledge. One way of looking at this issue is through participatory mapping, a tool of social cartography. In digital cartography, the representation of geographic space adds the concept of geographic information systems - GIS - and remote sensing, so that when participatory mapping uses these concepts, participatory GIS (PGIS) comes up. Thus, the National Institute for Space Research, through the Laboratory for the Application of Spatial Data in Support of Society, enabled high school students from public schools in socially vulnerable areas in the municipality of São José dos Campos to use the P-GIS concept. The students identified and proposed public facilities for their respective territories and produced maps with digital cartographic accuracy as a result of their training in PGIS. This material assisted the students in reaching the public authorities and proposing the spatial (re)organization, corroborating the governance process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]