Itâs 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…
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Ohneganos OhnegahdÄ: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 Martaâwhere the recovery of ancestral territory is prioritized by the indigenous groupsâthe 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.
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a hack-a-thon of a special nature. Homesnap sponsored my participation in Ruby for Good, a conference where developers, product managers, and product designers come together to create websites and software for non-profit organizations. As part of Ruby for Good, I had the incredible honor to work with Rudo Kemper (part of the Amazon Conservation Team, or ACT) to design and build Terrastories.
I just came back from an exhilarating weekend at Ruby for Good 2018 to work with a team to develop an open-source, offline-compatible geostorytelling application. I want to share my experiences, but first, some history. Almost twenty years ago, ACT partnered with the Trio (or sometimes TyrĂo, TarĂ«no) indigenous communities in southern Suriname and northern Brazil to …
Wauja from the Ulupuene village in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazil are taking action to preserve and map their intangible cultural heritage.