People with low levels of education and poor literacy skills have difficulty making themselves heard. This is particularly true for indigen...

The use of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) in aerial mapping applications is increasingly being used as an appropriate surveying met...

Cross-border livestock trade in dryland eastern Africa significantly contributes to the enhancement of food security and generation of wea...

The advent of social media has revolutionised the way people communicate worldwide. But in a growing number of developing countries, thes...

We increasingly hear about innovation taking place in Africa and other countries in the South. ICTs appears to be in the driving seat....

Jerome Lewis began working with Pygmy hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers in Rwanda in 1993. This led to work on the impact of the...

The Map Kibera project works with young people from one of Africa’s biggest slums. They use GIS, SMS, video and the web to gather data and...

This participatory video produced by Association Okani shows the impacts of illegal logging on forest peoples' customary use of reso...

In 2006 a little known ethnic group – called the Ogiek - created a three-dimensional map of their ancestral land in Kenya. In the past m...

Mapping for Rights aims to provide easy access to accurate geographical information about the presence, land use and rights of indigeno...

Leonard Odambo, President of MINAPYGA talks about how participatory mapping is supporting community rights in Gabon (in French). Second...

Emmanuel Bizot, Minister of Water, Forests, Hunting and Fishing for the Central African Republic speaks at the launch of the participato...

En 2002, Son Excellence, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, président de la République du Gabon, a crée avec un décret treize parcs nationaux. L...

The  leathery  scent at the venue hall was nothing more than the confirmation that we were working in rural Ethiopia, in a village called T...

This ambitious publication focuses on lessons learned from ten years of applied conservation approaches of the Central African Regional Pro...

Dr. Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat at the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC), a pan-African network, elabo...

Google Earth Outreach in Africa was recently launched with the objective of enabling non-profit and public benefit organizations in the co...

In this interview, Peter Poole traces the evolution of a map-making methodology which commenced with his introduction of GPS to the Inuit co...

With funding support from CTA , fifteen indigenous African leaders from East and Central Africa met in Bujumbura, Burundi to finalise a join...

The 420-page UNESCO World Report on Cultural Diversity has been launched by the Director-General, to the attention of the Permanent Delegat...