Environmental crises are often monitored through technical indicators, datasets, and institutional reporting. Yet they are also lived, sensed, and negotiated … More
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Participatory mapping, led by students and experts from across Central Africa
by Simon Hoyte The ambition of Extreme Citizen Science and our mapping tool Sapelli has always been to co-develop projects … More
Indigenous floor maps and many names for ice: ICA Vancouver 2025
by Timothie Biggs Here are a few highlights from the 32nd International Cartographic Association (ICA) 2025 Conference in Vancouver, British … More
A desert as a garden: The International Society of Ethnobiology conference in Marrakech, Morocco
With every conference of the International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) that I attend, I increasingly realise how unique and remarkable … More
WhatsApp Maps? Connecting users and producers of ground information
Messaging is popular, but mapping is not. Mapping is mainly done by professionals or machines, and this is a problem … More
Pathways on Industry-connected Citizen Engagement
The International Society for Digital Earth 2023 conference was held at Harokopio University in Athens from the 11th to the … More
Wisdom of the Crowd in the Age of AI: Water
Planetary-scale monitoring systems need satellite data and ground data, but the latter are lacking. Despite the increasing monitoring capabilities of … More
You are invited to attend – and participate in! – the HEIDI Project’s Final Event on 30th and 31st May
After many, many fascinating roundtables, panels, webinars, community environmental action, documents and reports, a video and much more, the HEIDI … More
Digital Services at HEIs to Support Digital Action for Social Change – A HEIDI short film
By Hannah Gibbs. As the HEIDI project comes to an end, we at UCL and our partners Citizens in Power … More
From negative tipping points to positive tipping points
I attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, as part of the youth delegation of Arctic Basecamp. … More
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