People, Parks and Clouds: How Innovative Mobile and Web-Mapping Technologies Are Empowering Local Communities and Transforming Chimpanzee Conservation in Africa

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People, Parks and Clouds: How Innovative Mobile and We

Technologies Are Empowering Local Communities and Tr

Chimpanzee Conservation in Africa
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Overview

The 30-year mission focus of the Jane

Goodall Institute (JGI) is to protect with

partners 85% of chimpanzees and theirhabitats in Africa.

JGI is using innovative mobile and web-

mapping technologies to enable a diversity

of stakeholders to jointly manage

chimpanzee habitats across the entireprotected area network, from government

managed national parks to community

owned village and private forest reserves.

To learn more see this video:

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Open Data Kit (ODK)

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Upload and store forms

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Since 2009 JGI and partners have been

deploying ODK to improve protected area

management and empower local

communities to be better stewards of

their environment and custodians of

chimpanzees.

ODK is a free and out-of-the-box solution

for users to build a data collection form

or survey, collect the data in the field on

an Android mobile device, smartphone

or

tablet, aggregate the collected data on a

server, locally or in the cloud, and extract

it in useful formats for analysis and

visualization.
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Empowering local communities to mana

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Reforestation in Kigalye Village Forest Reserve

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Kigalye Village Forest Monitor

Village Forest Reserves

Click here to see

Gombe in Street View
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Villagers and Rangers: enabling joint monitoring

VillagersRangers

Illegal activities reported by:

Budongo ForestReserve, Uganda


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Global Forest Watch (GFW)

Enabling local users with limited and

Internet connectivity to receive and g

deforestation alerts from GFW using A

devices
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Cloud

Google Earth Engine

ODK Collect server

Google Maps Engine

Esri ArcGIS Online

Global Forest Watch

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commScience & Technology Partners

(data analysis, models, tools )

Dashboards for decision-makers in low bandwidth environments to visualize crowdsourced data fr

From the ground to the cloud and back to decisions

Click to explore the live map
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Innovative and effective

The system uses innovative open source mobile apps such as Open Data Kit (Osmartphones and tablets and Google cloud technologies to crowdsource field

Evidence of implementation and impact

Since 2009 JGI's mobile platform has been successfully deployed in Tanzania a

has been recently introduced into the Republic of Congo and the Democratic R

Congo. In Tanzania, Village Forest Monitors from 52 communities outside Gom

Park and within larger Gombe-Masito-Ugalla ecosystem use this mobile platfo

manage their Village Forest Reserves by monitoring illegal human activities, w

chimpanzees. In Uganda more than 1500 Private Forest Owners have mapped

properties while National Forest Authority rangers and local communities use

jointly patrol Budongo and Kalinzu Forest Reserves.

Applied elsewhere or more broadly

This is an open source, free, simple, and practical community mobile mapping

monitoring platform that can be easily scaled up.

An inspiring solution?


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Components that lead to success

Partnerships between conservation NGOs, local and village govand private sector to match cutting edge technologies with loc

conservation needs and realities on the ground.

Long-term commitment to build local capacity.

Enabling factors

Rapid developments in mobile, web-mapping and cloud techn

What makes it work?

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People, Parks and Clouds: How Innovative Mobile and Web-Mapping Technologies Are Empowering Local Communities and Transforming Chimpanzee Conservation in Africa