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System and Data-Driven Collaboration Framework: A Work in Progress

This blogpost is the second part of the blogpost Crisis Mapping By Affected Agro-Pastoralists in 🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Crowdsourcing for Food … More

Agro-pastoralists, Citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Digital Earth, Food security, Human-Computer Interaction, ICT4D, Land use, Machine learning, PGIS, Social media, WhatsApp

Crisis Mapping By Affected Agro-Pastoralists in Ethiopia: Crowdsourcing for Food Security?🇪🇹

In the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia, a food security crisis is unfolding. According to the Famine Early Warning Systems … More

Agro-pastoralists, Crowdsourcing, Digital Earth, Food security, Human-Computer Interaction, ICT4D, Land use, Machine learning, PGIS, Social media, WhatsApp

Is Sapelli just a tool?

In a recent interview I conducted with the director of an international NGO here in Cameroon who is familiar with … More

Extreme Citizen Science, participation, production of knowledge, Sapelli

CITIZEN SCIENCE: BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER

On November 5 2015, a dam situated in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) collapsed, spreading millions of litres of … More

ECSAnVis, ERC

Reuniting people and maps: Participative Mapping 2017 at Cal Poly

Maps have changed the world. If you’ve visited Madrid’s Naval Museum, you will have seen a map drawn by an … More

conference, ECSAnVis, ERC, GIS, Indigenous, indigenous rights, Mapping, PGIS, PPGIS

Learning DIY glow-worm making

“Learning by teaching”, a reflection on running a DIY Arduino glow-worm-making workshop.

Arduino, art, Citizen science, Community Development, creativity, development, DIY, education, environment, event, hacking, hardware, innovation, Into the Night, open source, Play, research, science, Technology, workshop

Forest People, Forest Elephants, and Forest Citizen Science in Cameroon

Since its initial development, Sapelli has been closely interlinked with conservation aims, ranging from resource monitoring in the Congo and CAR to … More

Africa, biodiversity, Cameroon, Citizen science, Community Development, Ecological Citizen Science, ECSAnVis, Empowerment, environmental monitoring, ERC, ExCiteS, indigenous rights, Sapelli

Engaging Local Communities in Conservation Research

The sun is getting low on the horizon, and after five long hours of hiking up and down the hilly … More

Congo-Brazzaville, Ecological Citizen Science, Empowerment, participation, Sapelli, wildlife

“A different perspective” in the Greenspace Information for Greater London (GiGL) online magazine

The following piece was written for the GiGLer, the newsletter of Greenspace information for Greater London (GiGL).  In this (very) … More

biodiversity, Citizen science, Citizen Science Association Conference, citizen science data, Ecological Citizen Science, environmental monitoring, motivation

Recent posts

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  • Reflections on Urban Gardening Workshop in London’s Chinatown November 16, 2024
  • A desert as a garden: The International Society of Ethnobiology conference in Marrakech, Morocco July 19, 2024
  • WhatsApp Maps? Connecting users and producers of ground information June 26, 2024
  • Pathways on Industry-connected Citizen Engagement September 20, 2023
  • Wisdom of the Crowd in the Age of AI: Water September 3, 2023
  • You are invited to attend – and participate in! – the HEIDI Project’s Final Event on 30th and 31st May May 18, 2023
  • Digital Services at HEIs to Support Digital Action for Social Change – A HEIDI short film May 11, 2023
  • From negative tipping points to positive tipping points January 30, 2023

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