There has been a question ecently on the PPGIS list http://www.ppgis.net/ about the current
status of participatory GIS usage in Africa. The question and two responses
follow.
A stub article on participatory GIS in Africa, with links,
is at http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/PPGIS
Don Osborn
Bisharat.net
PanAfricanL10n.org
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Dear D-Group,
We are currently in the process of doing a scoping study on
the current status of PGIS application in the areas of agriculture and land
management in Africa. We are interested in knowing who's doing what in this
area (research institute, university, government, NGO) and what projects they
are doing. If you could kindly share information that would provide upto-date
information on PGIS application in Africa it would be very appreciated.
Geneviève LEFEBVRE
Research Officer
ICT4D Africa Programs - IDRC
250 Albert St.
PO Box 8500
Ottawa, Canada, KIG 3H9
www.idrc.ca
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Quite a number of programmes on PGIS have been carried out
in Nigeria. Omotayo and others of the University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria
have used the approach to map health services access and usage among settled
Fulani pastoralists in southwest Nigeria. At prersent this same group is
mapping soybean production and utilization areas across Nigeria.
Akin Omotayo, Professor of Rural Sociology and Director,
Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre, University of Agriculture,
PMB 2240, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
Phone: + + 234-8037223311
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there are somme ¨GIS initiatives in Cameroon, carried by the
NGO Centre for Environment and Development for two main purposes: (1)
documenting Indigenous peoples (hunters gatherers) customary rights of land and
forest resources. PGIS has been a powerful tool to negociate acces of IP in
their traditional territories that have been gazetted as protected areas. (2)
PGIS is used as a tool for the management of community forests by local
communities
Belmond Tchoumba
Programme Manager, CED
P O Box 3430 Yaoundé Cameroon
Tél: +237 2222 38 57/9950 45 31
Fax: +237 222 38 59
www.cedcameroun.org
