Today: Launch of Earth Defenders Toolkit (featuring Terrastories!)
Today, Digital Democracy launches the Earth Defenders Toolkit, a collaborative space for earth defenders and their allies.
GEO Indigenous Hack4Covid: Terrastories is Preserving History Using Storytelling and Geo-mapping
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 …
From the Amazon to the Great Lakes: sharing knowledge with First Nations communities in Canada
Ohneganos Ohnegahdę:gyo is using Terrastories to combine scientific water measurements with traditional ancestral land mapping and recording of Haudenosaunee oral histories.
Suriname Community Uses New Open-Source App to Preserve Storytelling Traditions
The Matawai of Suriname are breaking ground by using a new app to create an extraordinary repository of traditional knowledge through oral history storytelling.
Oral Histories: Helping the Kogui Manage their Territory
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.
Mapping oral history in the rainforests of Suriname
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.
Aluakumá, the Big Bat: Oral Histories in a Waurá Community
Wauja from the Ulupuene village in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazil are taking action to preserve and map their intangible cultural heritage.