Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility: An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador

Gustavo Navas; Anthony Loyaga; Jefferson Barahona; Julio Proaño Orellana

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Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility: An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador

Gustavo Navas, Anthony Loyaga, Jefferson Barahona, Julio Proaño Orellana

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Abstract

Education is the most critical aspect against inequality. So, the accessibility to educational centers is one of the biggest problems that governments and academia are trying to solve in Latin America. Finding an optimal location is challenging because different variables can be considered, such as serving the poor, accessing to roads, and optimal distribution. This work presents a methodology that uses geospatial techniques to evaluate the level of access of poor people to educational centers considering location and accessibility. This methodology is multi factorial and can be generalized to multiple scenarios in resource planning. In this work, a case study of Ecuadorian educational centers is analyzed. So, an Ecuadorian geospatial database was created that includes educational centers’ location, the distribution of the poor population, Voronoi diagrams, and road networks. All the analysis were carried out using the PostGIS tool and Google Cloud Platform for the implementation. The results show that 90% of educational centers serve at least 50% of the most impoverished population.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022
Editors	Cedric Grueau, Lemonia Ragia
Publisher	Science and Technology Publications, Lda
Pages	147-154
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9789897585715
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0011075200003185
State	Published - 2022
Event	8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 27 Apr 2022 → 29 Apr 2022

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Name	International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM - Proceedings
ISSN (Electronic)	2184-500X

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Conference	8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022
City	Virtual, Online
Period	27/04/22 → 29/04/22

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Copyright © 2022 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Educational Centers
Geospatial
GIS
Poverty
Spacial Analysis
Voronoi

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Navas, G., Loyaga, A., Barahona, J., & Orellana, J. P. (2022). Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility: An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador. In C. Grueau, & L. Ragia (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022 (pp. 147-154). (International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM - Proceedings). Science and Technology Publications, Lda. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011075200003185

Navas, Gustavo ; Loyaga, Anthony ; Barahona, Jefferson et al. / Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility : An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022. editor / Cedric Grueau ; Lemonia Ragia. Science and Technology Publications, Lda, 2022. pp. 147-154 (International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM - Proceedings).

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Navas, G, Loyaga, A, Barahona, J & Orellana, JP 2022, Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility: An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador. in C Grueau & L Ragia (eds), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022. International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM - Proceedings, Science and Technology Publications, Lda, pp. 147-154, 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022, Virtual, Online, 27/04/22. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011075200003185

Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility: An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador. / Navas, Gustavo; Loyaga, Anthony; Barahona, Jefferson et al.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022. ed. / Cedric Grueau; Lemonia Ragia. Science and Technology Publications, Lda, 2022. p. 147-154 (International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM - Proceedings).

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Navas G, Loyaga A, Barahona J, Orellana JP. Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility: An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador. In Grueau C, Ragia L, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022. Science and Technology Publications, Lda. 2022. p. 147-154. (International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM - Proceedings). doi: 10.5220/0011075200003185

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