Faced with threats and socio-environmental conflicts generated by human activities such as gold mining and illegal logging, the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve is innovating the implementation of a patrol system with the inclusion of state-of-the-art technology, including MAPEO. On February 12, 2021, we held a webinar titled MAPEO: A technological tool for the surveillance and control of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve. Read more…
Last month, Digital Democracy and our allies announced the launch of the Earth Defenders Toolkit at the 2020 Virtual Indigenous Mapping Workshop, and I'm delighted to share with you some of what we learned. Read more…
Thanks to recent support from the McGovern Foundation and Good Energies, and growing partnerships in new locations including Brazil, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, the Digital Democracy team is expanding. Read more…
It is a privilege and honor to announce and welcome the addition of three new members to our Board of Directors. Read more…
Today, in tandem with the Indigenous Mapping Workshop, the Digital Democracy team is excited to announce the Earth Defenders’ Toolkit (EDT) Read more…
Designed for communities and groups to collaborate on mapping, monitoring, and documentation projects, MAPEO works entirely offline and communities retain control of their information. Read more…
Over the past year, we’ve dug deeply into our convictions and had empowering conversations with practitioners, allies, and partners. We combine this with our own experiences co-designing technology with earth defenders over the past five years to craft values for building technology in solidarity with earth defenders around the globe. Read more…
What kind of world are we building with our maps? How many of us take the time to ask this when we sit down with our tools (whether pen & paper or state of the art software) to draw our polygons and lines? And yet to make a map — and publish it, or define a congressional district with it, or profile where protests for Black Lives Matter are happening — is an act that affects the world. Read more…
Dinesh is a community media activist who focuses on on storytelling methods and local documentation in marginalised communities. Read more…
Even with all of the technology in the world, the paper mapping process still needs to happen. There still needs to be a physical aspect to help people understand what all of this data and information means Read more…