CyberTracker

CyberTracker is an award winning software application, which enables both literate and illiterate users to map natural resources using a text or icon based interface on a PDA/GPS . CyberTracker is free, has been developed and refined over more than ten years and has been downloaded more than 25 000 times in more than 50 countries.
CyberTracker Conservation is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote the development of a worldwide environmental monitoring network.

Participatory GIS

Participatory GIS is the result of a spontaneous merger of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) methods with Geographic Information Technologies and Systems (GIT&S) to compose peoples’ spatial knowledge in the forms of virtual or physical, 2 or 3 dimensional maps used as interactive vehicles for discussion, information exchange, analysis and as support in advocacy, decision making and action taking. PGIS practice is usually geared towards community empowerment through measured, demand-driven, user-friendly and integrated applications of Geo-spatial Information Technologies and Systems (GIT&S), where maps become a major conduit in the process.