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  • Webinar: Mapeo’s use in guarding Peru’s Amarakaeri Communal Reserve Webinar: Mapeo’s use in guarding Peru’s Amarakaeri Communal Reserve

    Mar Cartró Sabaté
    February 25, 2021

    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…

  • Co-creating an Earth Defenders Toolkit with the Indigenous Mapping Community at #2020IMW Co-creating an Earth Defenders Toolkit with the Indigenous Mapping Community at #2020IMW

    Rudo Kemper
    December 11, 2020

    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…

  • Welcoming new team members Welcoming new team members

    Emily Jacobi
    November 25, 2020

    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…

  • Welcoming New Members to Our Board of Directors Welcoming New Members to Our Board of Directors

    Jovena Natal
    November 23, 2020

    It is a privilege and honor to announce and welcome the addition of three new members to our Board of Directors. Read more…

  • Coming soon! The Earth Defenders’ Toolkit Coming soon! The Earth Defenders’ Toolkit

    Rudo Kemper
    November 18, 2020

    Today, in tandem with the Indigenous Mapping Workshop, the Digital Democracy team is excited to announce the Earth Defenders’ Toolkit (EDT) Read more…

  • One year of co-design One year of co-design

    Karissa McKelvey
    July 29, 2020

    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…

  • Solidarity Technology: Values for an Earth Defender’s Toolkit Solidarity Technology: Values for an Earth Defender’s Toolkit

    Karissa McKelvey
    June 29, 2020

    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…

  • Indigenous Cartography & Decolonizing Mapmaking Indigenous Cartography & Decolonizing Mapmaking

    Emily Jacobi
    June 24, 2020

    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…

  • Renarration and Accessiblity: T B Dinesh on Localized Knowledge in Rural India Renarration and Accessiblity: T B Dinesh on Localized Knowledge in Rural India

    Karissa McKelvey
    June 22, 2020

    Dinesh is a community media activist who focuses on on storytelling methods and local documentation in marginalised communities. Read more…

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Southeast Asia, with Pyrou Chung Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Southeast Asia, with Pyrou Chung

    Emily Jacobi
    June 19, 2020

    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…

 
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