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Dd Program Director Aliya Ryan conducting a Mapeo Mobile training in Wampis territory, Peru, in a joint workshop with Forest Peoples Programme. Credit: Vicki Brown, FPP

Community land mapping workshop

Last fall, Digital Democracy collaborated with our partners Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) to deliver a training workshop on community based monitoring and mapping to members of indigenous and Afro descendent peoples from Peru and Colombia, including Embera-Chamani, Huitoto, Kichwa, N+pode+mak+, Shipibo and Wampis people. The five day training took place in the community of Soledad, which lies on the banks of the river Santiago, in the heart of the territory of the Wampis nation, in Northern Peru.

The communities are facing a range of threats, from land invasions and land grabs, to mining, deforestation and oil activities. In total we trained nearly 30 people to use Mapeo Mobile and Desktop to collect and analyze data. The workshop also included training in GPS devices and tools to help them publish data on online maps and websites. We're now supporting the participants remotely as they incorporate the tools into existing monitoring programs and pilot new initiatives. 

On Data Solidarity

At a time when tracking technology feels ubiquitous and our data is being collected from all angles, how can we as individuals & organizations practice better data solidarity - i.e. being aware of how our data is being used & collected, and what implications that means for our social networks? Dd team member Karissa McKelvey sat down with Allen Gunn of Aspiration Technology for a big picture look at data in the social change sector, and how we can all practice better data solidarity. Check out their conversation.

Conferences, job postings & other opportunities


Are you interested in further exploring questions of ethical data, locally-controlled information & countering surveillance capitalism?

Join the Dd team at csv,conf,v5 where our ED Emily Jacobi will be giving a keynote presentation. Want to give a talk? The proposal deadline is February 7, 2020.

Submit your proposal here

 


Connect & recharge: Do you work at the intersection of tech and social change? If so, the upcoming Web of Change 2020 retreat in Balcones Springs, Texas could be the perfect event for you. Apply today to attend the convening April 20-23 with diverse social change leaders from across North America & the world.
 


Amazing job alert: We're big fans of Native Land, an online resource centering indigenous territorial acknowledgement. They're hiring their first executive director, looking for indigenous person based in Canada.

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