---
id: capture/comapeo-awana-digital
about:
  label: CoMapeo
  description: >-
    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.
  tags:
    - mapping
    - indigenous
    - territory
    - monitoring
    - android
    - community
tool:
  form: open-source mobile app
  group: Wildlife and field monitoring
  homepage: 'https://awana.digital/comapeo'
  cost: free
open:
  source: open
  data: unknown
  api: unknown
  participation: partly
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: CoMapeo
      url: 'https://awana.digital/comapeo'
    - title: Awana Digital • Co-developing Technology for Social Justice
      url: 'https://awana.digital/'
    - title: >-
        Introducing CoMapeo — A Next-Gen Territorial Monitoring & Mapping
        Collaboration Tool
      url: >-
        https://awana.digital/blog/introducing-comapeo----a-next-gen-territorial-monitoring-mapping-collaboration-tool
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
import:
  source: openai-linkedin-scrape 2026-10-17
  id: DT077
  kind: enabling_mapping
  family: enabling_technology_and_adjacent_work
  priority: supporting
  verified: false
  posts:
    - P074
  posters:
    - Awana Digital
domains:
  - people
  - places
---
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]