In 2005 CTA in collaboration with a number of locally based development actors introduced a participatory mapping method known as “Parti...

This recent publication explores a range of uses of information and communication technology (including PGIS) that can increase public pa...

Source of video:  Survival International - The Ogiek Traditionally the Ogiek People were hunter-gatherers. In the last dec...

Shawn Simpson explores the definition and use cases for volunteered geographic information in public safety and local government.

The New Social Cartography Project of the Amazon collaborates with indigenous and other communities in Brazil to map their territories, c...

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...

Conservation Story Blong Chivoko" was made by the men and women of the remote coastal village of Chivoko, accessible only by sea on ...

Dr Françoise Orban-Ferauge, or Françoise to many of her friends in the Philippines, will be launching her e-book " PGIS and Land Pl...

This report published by IDS, investigates how the next generation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) — such as open map...

At the Manus Province Climate Change Seminar ‘ Manus Way Forward ’, October 2010, over 70 participants presented and shared experiences, exp...

This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. Throug...

Mt. Shasta, California, North America - July 12, 2011 Maps tell stories, and control of the printing press allowed colonial powers to t...

I was recently in Ethiopia where I had the opportunity to deliver two seminars on PGIS practice, with focus on Participatory 3-Dimensional ...

Ce guide explique comment les représentants des ONG, des Gouvernements et des communautés participant aux projets de cartographie participa...

ALDAW (press release) - The struggle of the indigenous peoples of Palawan against mining corporations is now being impaired by highly manip...

Fred McGarry is Director of Waterloo's Centre for Community Mapping, a platform for collaborative innovation that provides mapping res...

Nina-Marie Lister is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and Visiting Associate Professor at Harva...

I’d like to thank all the team who made the ten-day ‘ Participatory 3D modelling (P3DM) for climate change’ engagement with Boe Boe communit...

The Ushahidi platform is built on the Kohana web framework, a fork of the CodeIgniter framework. It includes built-in support for Clicka...