The merging of participatory development methods with geo-spatial technologies has come to be known as Participatory GIS and is now an emerg...

PPgis.net serves as a global avenue for discussing issues, sharing experiences and good practices related to community mapping, public par...

We have just completed the translation of this important publication by Mac Chapin & colleagues. Here are the links to the documents. ...

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental science...

PGIS practitioners make use of a range of low and high tech geographic information technologies for acquisition, validation, analysis, repre...

A field update from the ALDAW Network (Ancestral Land/Domain Watch) May 2010 Between July and September 2009, a mission organized by the ...

This is an easy-to-use manual to ILO Convention No. 169 . It helps to understand the Convention, and how it can be used to gain recognition,...

A contemporary follow-up to the bestselling Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how...

This paper considers what is at stake in defining and mapping protected areas for conservation. The authors link issues of power in cartogr...

Louis Liebenberg, founder and developer of CyberTracker technology shares his views on the importance of maintaining local knowledge at the ...

In March 2006, the Philippines’ President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called for a revitalization of mining nation-wide. The future of Palaw...

Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook By Luisa Maffi and Ellen Woodley Publication date: 19th February 2010 ' All of t...

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

In 2005, when the Tsunami hit Banda Aceh in Indonesia, it killed many of the elderly fishermen. Much of the traditional knowledge about the ...

Julius Muchemi, Executive Director of ERMIS Africa, an NGO based in Kenya, reports on a Participatory 3D Modelling exercise which occurred ...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, ...

I have just come across the report prepared in December 2006 by the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental free...

In this 5 minute interview Dr. Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat at IPACC, elaborates on intergenerational ecological knowledge transm...

Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads. In the early heady days of the digital revolution, access to "high" technolo...

Digital Cartography from dynamicmediainstitute.org on Vimeo . By Andrew Ellis, Alexander Wang, Students at the Dynamic Media Institute, Ma...