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 …
Ohneganos Ohnegahdę: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 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.
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.
Wauja from the Ulupuene village in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazil are taking action to preserve and map their intangible cultural heritage.