Mapping and Monitoring - Transformative Pathways

A film about mapping and monitoring in indigenous territories, designed to raise community awareness. The film looks into ancestral and technological approaches, the benefits and challenges of mapping and monitoring and ways to minimize these challenges.

  • ■An introductory film about participatory biodiversity mapping and monitoring, designed to raise community awareness of the history and current context of mapping and monitoring, as well as to share useful information on how to best to map and monitor in practice. The film looks into:

    ■Mapping - What is mapping? What are the benefits (eg. as a tool for mobilization, genuine participation, can help provide wider perspective); What are the risks (eg. colonial past, can cause divisions, can reveal extractible resources, drawing hard lines around fluid knowledge) and how to limit risks (eg. data controlled locally, protecting intellectual property).  What are the results for communities of mapping their lands.

    ■Monitoring - An overview of participatory biodiversity monitoring. What is it? Why does it happen / purpose? What does it involve? Monitoring methods, technologies and trade-offs (diaries, participatory maps, camera traps, transects, seasonal calendars) What should be monitored? Can it have negative impacts? What are the common challenges? What are the results for communities of monitoring their lands.

    See Thai version here 

    การทำแผนที่ กำกับติดตาม เขตแดนชนเผ่าพื้นเมือง  (Mapping & Monitoring Thai)

    See Swahili Version here

    Uchoraji wa Ramani na Ufuatiliaji Maeneo ya watu wa Asili (Mapping Swahili)

    See Spanish version here

    Mapeo y Monitoreo en territorios indígenas (Español)

    See Bahasa Indonesia here

    Pemetaan dan Pemantauan Wilayah Adat (Bahasa Indonesia)


  • Other videos

    การทำแผนที่ กำกับติดตาม เขตแดนชนเผ่าพื้นเมือง  (Mapping & Monitoring Thai)

    หนังสารคดีเกี่ยวกับการทำแผนที่และการติดตามตรวจสอบดินแดนของชนพื้นเมือง ออกแบบมาเพื่อสร้างความตระหนักรู้ของชุมชน หนังได้ชวนมองถึงองค์ความรู้ของบรรพบุรุษและการใช้เทคโนโลยี รวมทั้งประโยชน์และความท้าทายของการทำแผนที่และการติดตาม และวิธีการรับมือกับความท้าทายที่ต้องเผชิญ


    Uchoraji wa Ramani na Ufuatiliaji Maeneo ya watu wa Asili (Mapping Swahili)

    Filamu kuhusu uchoraji wa ramani katika maeneo ya watu wa Asili, imetengenezwa kwa ajili ya kuamsha hamasa ya kijamii. Filamu inaangalia mbinu na tekinolojia za jadi, faida na changamoto ya uchoraji wa ramani na ufuatiliaji na njia za kupunguza changamoto hizi.


    Mapping and Monitoring in Indigenous Territories

    A film made by 6 indigenous filmmakers from Asia, Latin America and Africa, about mapping and monitoring in indigenous territories. The film is designed to raise community awareness and looks into ancestral and technological approaches to mapping and monitoring, as well as the benefits and challenges of mapping and monitoring and ways to minimize these challenges. An introductory film about participatory biodiversity mapping and monitoring, designed to raise community awareness of the history and current context of mapping and monitoring, as well as to share useful information on how to best to map and monitor in practice. The film looks into: ■Mapping - What is mapping? What are the benefits (eg. as a tool for mobilization, genuine participation, can help provide wider perspective); What are the risks (eg. colonial past, can cause divisions, can reveal extractible resources, drawing hard lines around fluid knowledge) and how to limit risks (eg. data controlled locally, protecting intellectual property). What are the results for communities of mapping their lands. ■Monitoring - An overview of participatory biodiversity monitoring. What is it? Why does it happen / purpose? What does it involve? Monitoring methods, technologies and trade-offs (diaries, participatory maps, camera traps, transects, seasonal calendars) What should be monitored? Can it have negative impacts? What are the common challenges? What are the results for communities of monitoring their lands.



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