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No Forest is an Island
Collaborative Forest Monitoring
Leo Bottrill
Perimeter Defense
September 15th, 2015
Contents
• Background to Moabi
• Forest monitoring challenges
• Two approaches
- Logging roads
- Moabi DRC
- A case study – Mai Ndombe
• OpenMapHub
What is Moabi?
(Baillonella toxisperma)
Technology Partnerships Training
Forest Monitoring Challenges
Institutional
• Ownership
• Independence
• Dynamic
• Scales/Sectors
Technical
• Connectivity
• Replicabilition
• Mobile integration
• User types
Engagers Advocates
Two Forest Monitoring Factions
Data
Logging concessionsDIAF/WRI
Community land tenure
Local civil
society/community
Infrastructure Ministry of
InfrastructureMandated IM reports
IM reports IM
organizations
Satellite
providers
Forest cover/Forest
lossUMD/GFW/OSFAC
Sources
Two Approaches
Traditional
CrowdsourcingBounded
Crowdsourcing
• Over 3000 edits in only three mapathons
• Mapped DRC and Rep. of Congo
• Bridged the conservation and OSM community
Logging Roads
loggingroads.org
Moabi DRC
rdc.moabi.org
A collaborative initiative
monitoring natural
resources in DRC,
particularly REDD+
• Design a sharing
platform
• Build partnerships
• Increase civil society
capacity
Platform
Based on OpenStreetMap
Manage and edit geodata
Publish interactive reports and maps
Integrated with opensource smartphone tools
Institution
- NGOs, Government agencies, and scientific institutions
Consortium
Local civil society (GIS, monitoring)
Funding facility
Competitions
Training
Mai Ndombe
Community monitoring
Mandated Monitors
• Validate community
reports, grievances
Mai-Ndombe
Maindombe
a collaborative platform for editing and
publishing simple, fast and responsive
maps
openmaphub.org
3 components
• Upload using a
desktop/smartp
hone
• Create maps
• Manage access
• Build your own
microsite with
no coding
• Use layers with
other users
• Publish map
stories
• Microsites with
in curated
interactive
maps, reports,
and blogs
Four hubs
Partners