Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial data are important advocacy tools adopted by a range of users, including telecommunications policy advocates. However, without the means to actively deconstruct and reshape such platforms, reclaim the geospatial data they utilize, and generate the visualizations they produce, the increasing adoption of these resources threatens to disempower some community-based user groups. In this article, we argue that the processes used to design such tools for policy advocacy must transparently reflect the socially constructed nature of the GIS systems and the geospatial data visualizations they generate, as well as the values and goals of the specific user groups they are designed to support. We ground this argument in a case study of a regulatory hearing on telecommunications infrastructure and services in Canada, and introduce a freely available online resource that documents our GIS design workflow in more detail.

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为土著主导的电信政策倡导回收地理空间数据和 GIS 设计：绘制加拿大偏远和北部地区宽带可用性的过程讨论

地理信息系统 (GIS) 和地理空间数据是一系列用户（包括电信政策倡导者）采用的重要倡导工具。然而，如果没有积极解构和重塑这些平台、回收它们使用的地理空间数据并生成它们生成的可视化的方法，这些资源的日益采用可能会削弱一些基于社区的用户群体的能力。在本文中，我们认为用于设计此类政策倡导工具的过程必须透明地反映 GIS 系统的社会构建性质和它们生成的地理空间数据可视化，以及它们所在的特定用户群的价值观和目标旨在支持。