Peasant Mapmakers - Social and Community Cartographers
The Group of Land Rights Managers (Span. Grupo de Gestores del Derecho a la Tierra) and the organizers of the Pioneers Program convened 25 farmers and trained them so that they could create a Geographic Information System (GIS) for their communities. This involved improving the existing data on the maps of Caucasia by collecting data on buildings and geographic characteristics. This mapping revealed the impact of Ascabia's rubber cultivation and the significant degradation caused by mining activities. At the same time, the farmers rectified the location of riverbeds and roads, which had been modified by both climate change and flooding. The result of the 11-hour workday was subsequently made available to the general public in an online platform.
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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