Participatory and Community Based Geographic Information System
The One Earth Future Foundation (OEF) and OpenStreetMap Colombia, with support from Tupale.co, coordinated an initiative through which indigenous people, mostly young women, created a Geographic Information System for their communities. It contains cartographic data of the Canoa indigenous territory. In order to create it, the organizations in charge of the initiative trained the participants in the use of technological tools such as Bing satellite images and OpenStreetMap. With these tools, the team improved the existing maps, and later they traveled the area using OsmTracker and a GPS that OEF donated to the community to complete the data of the reserve and create a map that contains roads, houses, rivers, streams, water sources, some land uses and significant points of interest for the community. In this way, not only were the participants trained and empowered, but also knowledge about the territory and the communities was generated and made available.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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