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Category: Congo

Intelligent Maps = pixel value + local knowledge

Remote sensing has made huge breakthroughs in recent years in providing global maps of land cover and land use. A … More

Intelligent Maps

Une journée chez les Baka

Les grumiers soulèvent des nuages de poussière en emportant avec eux des petits bouts de forêt. Depuis quelques jours, j’ai … More

anthropologie, Cameroun, Congo, sociologie

Recognition of Indigenous People through Sapelli

Indigenous people believed to be a drag on society are in reality a major asset for conservation. We must recognise … More

Baka indigenous people, Citizen science, Congo, eco-guards, Indigenous people, Messok-Dja, Sapelli

Are poachers really the bad guys?

    The word poacher is a horrible word. It carries with it images of slain rhinos, piles of ivory, … More

Anti-Poaching, Communities, ECSAnVis, ERC, Hunting, Illegal Wildlife Trade, Indigenous

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

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
ExCiteS team with research assistants and participants in Gbagbali

Back to the Field – interdisciplinary research in the Congo

Take one computer scientist, one geographer, one anthropologist, two quadcopter drones and eight Android smartphones to the Congo for a … More

Congo-Brazzaville, ExCiteS, fieldwork, Sapelli

Recent posts

  • IN.FOR.BIO – our new 6-year One Health project December 18, 2025
  • Indigenous floor maps and many names for ice: ICA Vancouver 2025 November 5, 2025
  • 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

Categories

  • Activism (8)
  • Agro-pastoralists (2)
  • Amazon (2)
  • anthropology (18)
  • Articles (197)
  • Biodiversity (12)
  • Brazil (4)
  • Cameroon (11)
  • Central African Republic (2)
  • Challenging Citizen Science (3)
  • Citizen cyberscience (5)
  • Citizen Cyberscience around the world (3)
  • Citizen Cyberscience Summit (13)
  • citizen science data (9)
  • Congo (7)
  • Crowdsourcing (3)
  • Cultural Ecosystem Services (6)
  • Digital Earth (3)
  • DIY tools and methodologies (16)
  • East Africa (2)
  • Ecological Citizen Science (7)
  • Ecology (8)
  • Engagement (15)
  • Engagement, motivations and incentives (10)
  • Fieldwork (13)
  • Food security (3)
  • Geographical Citizen Science (2)
  • HCI (1)
  • Human-Computer Interaction (12)
  • ICT4D (3)
  • Indigenous peoples (18)
  • Issues of power (4)
  • Land Administration (1)
  • Land use (2)
  • Learning (19)
  • Machine learning (2)
  • Mapping (18)
  • motivations and incentives (4)
  • Open Science (5)
  • Participatory GIS (4)
  • Reflection on practice (6)
  • Research project (18)
  • Science by Citizens (12)
  • Social events (7)
  • Social media (2)
  • STS (3)
  • Sustainable development goals (3)
  • The art of Citizen Science (1)
  • The Citizens of Citizen Science (3)
  • Webinar (2)
  • WhatsApp (3)
  • Workshops and conferences (31)

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