ExCiteS forest monitoring

PROJECT

Url:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/intelligent-maps/intelligent-maps
Start date: 2012/02/01
End date: Still open
Infrastructure: ExCiteS

TEAM

Official team page:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/intelligent-maps/intelligent-maps
Leader: Muki Haklay



Main location: University College London, London, UK

PROJECT DEFINITION

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Subject

Natural sciences > Human-Computer Interaction, Anthropology, Software Engineering, GIScience (nature/conservation)

Description

A mobile application plus a platform which enables local communities to use a smartphone to compile and share a report on forest activity around their habitat.

Purpose.

Develop a system of participatory monitoring for forest management – specifically the social impact of logging. In a more global perspective, the goal is to let communities build so-called Community Memories: evolving, shared representations of the state of their environment, their relationship with it, and any threats it faces.

Research question.

There are both "global" and "local" questions, for example:

• how to design tools and practice that allow citizens to understand their environment and to participate in its management.
• How to create tools that allow anyone to capture data, share data, analyse data and use them.
• How to work in difficult technical conditions (weak GPS signal, no electricity, lack of Internet, etc.)

ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Tasks description.

The Congo project comprises several projects using different technology over time.

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Grey typology	Participation typology	Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: YES Sensing: YES Gaming: NO	Crowdsourcing ☐ Distributed intelligence ☐ Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☑ Science outreach ☐	Data collection ☐ Data analysis ☐ Data interpretation ☐--------
Gaming
Genre:	Gaming elements:
Interface
Data type to manipulate: pictures, text, observations	interface enjoyment: cool/attractive Interface usability: easy to use	Member profiles::N/A Member profile elements:

ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

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Guidance	Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: SOMEWHAT Training sequence: SOMEWHAT Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT	individual performance: Somewhat collective performance: Somewhat research progress: Somewhat

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COMMUNITY

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Tools	News & Events
Communication: Social Network: N/A	Main news site: Frequency of project news updates: N/A Type of events: Frequency of events :
Community description
Community size (volounteers based): Role: Interaction form: Has official community manager(s): N/A Has team work N/A

Other information about community:
Community led additions:

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION

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Intelligent Maps - Pygmies.jpg Yes [[has completion level::Low]

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/intelligent-maps/intelligent-maps

University College London, London, UK

Yes Human-Computer Interaction, Anthropology, Software Engineering, GIScience Natural sciences nature/conservation Develop a system of participatory monitoring for forest management – specifically the social impact of logging. In a more global perspective, the goal is to let communities build so-called Community Memories: evolving, shared representations of the state of their environment, their relationship with it, and any threats it faces. There are both "global" and "local" questions, for example:

• how to design tools and practice that allow citizens to understand their environment and to participate in its management.
• How to create tools that allow anyone to capture data, share data, analyse data and use them.
• How to work in difficult technical conditions (weak GPS signal, no electricity, lack of Internet, etc.)

Congo ExCiteS forest/poaching monitoring projects in the Congo Basin The Congo project comprises several projects using different technology over time. data collection, data analysis, data interpretation

extreme citizen science pictures, text, observations, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: yes Gaming: no

cool/attractive easy to use N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

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Low

Remarks

• There is no official project title (except the global ExCiteS one)
• The project evolves over time. It addresses different subjects, e.g. poaching and logging and technology changes.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

.Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin. Michalis Vitos, Jerome Lewis, Matthias Stevens, Muki Haklay (2013)

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1393554/

Stevens, M., Vitos, M., Lewis, J., & Haklay, M. (2013). Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin. GISRUK 2013, 21st GIS Research UK conference (April 2-5, 2013, Liverpool, England, UK).

Making local knowledge matter: supporting non-literate people to monitor poaching in Congo. Michalis Vitos, Jerome Lewis, Matthias Stevens, Muki Haklay

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2442882.2442884

BibTeX

Participatory Mapping in Congo-Brazzaville (Part 1). Michalis Vitos

https://uclexcites.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/participatory-mapping-in-congo-brazzaville-part-1/