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.
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.
An interview with Lucas, Katherine, and Oliver, incoming juniors at WUSTL who spent their summer volunteering on building Terrastories.
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 …
It’s been almost a year and a half since I became acquainted with a wonderful community of open-source Ruby developers. At the time, I was scurrying from one corporate office to another, trying to find the right party to build a geostorytelling application for my organization, the Amazon Conservation Team…
Originally posted on Storytime with Managers by WeCohere, here. “Storytime With Managers” are the questions you would ask an expert over a cup of coffee (including the ones you feel scared to ask), packaged up into 20min podcast episodes. Temporary Teams with Miranda Wang – Transcript JENNIFER: Welcome to Storytime with Managers, a podcast by …
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Ohneganos Ohnegahdę:gyo is using Terrastories to combine scientific water measurements with traditional ancestral land mapping and recording of Haudenosaunee oral histories.
The Matawai of Suriname are breaking ground by using a new app to create an extraordinary repository of traditional knowledge through oral history storytelling.
In contexts like the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta—where the recovery of ancestral territory is prioritized by the indigenous groups—the importance of instructing leaders in the use of tools that allow them to improve their capacity to understand and manage their lands is essential.
The classroom was abuzz. Groups of students sat together around mobile phones, exploring a digital map of their traditional homeland, watching videos of their elders telling stories of community history and traditions. Watching them, I could tell that the Terrastories project was onto something.