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Category: Participatory GIS

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

Citizen science, climate change, conservation, environment, news, participation, Sapelli, sustainability, workshop

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

canada, Citizen science, Indigenous, maps, participation

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

WEBINAR: Whose land? Whose map? Land use mapping by land users in the Digital Earth era.

*Recording and slides are available here. This Webinar is part of the ongoing PhD project titled: Whose land? Whose map? … More

Recent posts

  • Stories from the River Lea: community voices shaping understanding of environmental change  March 5, 2026
  • Participatory mapping, led by students and experts from across Central Africa February 25, 2026
  • 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

Categories

  • Activism (8)
  • Agro-pastoralists (2)
  • Amazon (2)
  • anthropology (18)
  • Articles (199)
  • 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 (1)
  • citizen science data (9)
  • Congo (8)
  • 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 (19)
  • 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 (5)
  • Reflection on practice (6)
  • Research project (18)
  • Science by Citizens (13)
  • 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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