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CoMapeo
Open-source Android app from the non-profit Awana Digital for territory monitoring and mapping, co-designed with Indigenous communities; teams record observations on a map and share them peer to peer.
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Awana Digital is a San Francisco non-profit that builds decentralised technology with Indigenous partners.2 It also makes Terrastories and the Earth Defenders Toolkit.2 Awana says fourteen Indigenous peoples across the Amazon, East Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific co-designed CoMapeo, including the Achuar, the Maasai and the Ogiek.1
A team sets up a project and records observations against a shared set of categories, either its own or a curated set from the Earth Defenders Toolkit library.1 Devices exchange data peer to peer; an optional server can archive a project's data for teams that cannot meet in person.1,3 Awana reports about 800 land defenders using its tools across 75 projects in 38 countries, and more than 7 million hectares mapped.2
CoMapeo is free and open source.1,2 It is distributed for Android as an APK (an installable app file) and through the Google Play Store.1 Awana invites feedback and publishes release notes.1
- form
- open-source mobile app
- group
- Wildlife and field monitoring
- homepage
- https://awana.digital/comapeo
- cost
- free
Tags: mapping, indigenous, territory, monitoring, android, community