rkemper, Author at Terrastories

(Mongabay) Empowering Indigenous youths with tradition and tech: Q&A with Dawn Martin-Hill

October 8, 2021 October 8, 2021

In addition to water woes, the Six Nations face ongoing challenges regarding their land rights. As one way to help protect their land and water, Martin-Hill introduced Terrastories, a place-based storytelling app that decolonizes geography, landscapes and waterscapes. Terrastories integrates data with the Indigenous vision for the land using ancestral land maps, water quality data and oral histories of the land.

Terrastories is participating in Hacktoberfest 2021!

September 23, 2021 September 23, 2021

Interested in contributing to an awesome free and open-source application for mapping oral histories? Terrastories is participating again in #Hacktoberfest this year!

Greater than Code podcast #246: Digital Democracy and Indigenous Storytelling with Rudo Kemper

August 18, 2021 August 18, 2021

On this episode, @rudokemper of @DigiDem talks about leading the indigenous-requested and indigenous-led open source project, Terrastories, which helps people capture and record oral history so that it is preserved and not lost over time.

Mae Beale and Using Open Source for Good (Sustain Podcast)

July 7, 2021 July 7, 2021

Sustain Podcast: Today, you will find out about Mae’s involvement and the many hats that she wears working for True Link Financial, Title Track Michigan, and Ruby for Good. Also, we learn about some of the projects she’s built and others she’s involved in, which are Mutual Aid, Voices of Consent, and Terrastories.

Today: Launch of Earth Defenders Toolkit (featuring Terrastories!)

June 30, 2021 June 30, 2021

Today, Digital Democracy launches the Earth Defenders Toolkit, a collaborative space for earth defenders and their allies.

Open-source volunteerism and oral histories mapping, during a pandemic: Terrastories 2020 in review 🌏💬

December 31, 2020 November 15, 2022

In the spirit of sharing positive stories to end a bleak year, I would like to tell you about some of the major highlights for Terrastories in 2020 that we achieved in spite of the pandemic.

Terrastories to be included as a featured tool in the Earth Defenders’ Toolkit

November 18, 2020 November 20, 2020

Terrastories will be included in the Earth Defenders’ Toolkit as one of the first of three featured tools, along with Digital Democracy’s Mapeo and Forest Peoples Programme’s Community Lands.

Terrastories at the 2020 Indigenous Mapping Workshop (November 16)

November 7, 2020 November 20, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Terrastories will be featured at this year’s 2020 Indigenous Mapping Workshop (online)! 🎉🎉🎉 On Monday, December 16 at 3pm EST we will host a 45 minute technical session on how Terrastories works for attendees of #2020IMW.

Developing Terrastories, for college credit: on building open-source software for a summer course at WUSTL

August 31, 2020 August 31, 2020

An interview with Lucas, Katherine, and Oliver, incoming juniors at WUSTL who spent their summer volunteering on building Terrastories.

GEO Indigenous Hack4Covid: Terrastories is Preserving History Using Storytelling and Geo-mapping

August 3, 2020 August 27, 2020

Originally posted on Space in Africa, here. In June 2020, 146 participants from 33 countries participated in the GEO indigenous Hack4covid event. In this series, we will profile the four winning teams from the contest and their projections. One of the winning ideas is the Terrastories map, which aims to help in the transmission of knowledge …

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