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Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools.
Challenging tech colonialism.
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.🥳 Have you tried CoMapeo yet? We are excited for you to try our next-gen territorial monitoring & mapping tool, co-designed with #EarthDefenders.

🌱Download it and map your world, together. New features coming soon!

👉🏾Find it on the Playstore or visit comapeo.app
Using Mapeo to document #biodiversity in a territory has proven a powerful tool for #Indigenous communities seeking to demonstrate the efficacy of community-based territorial management in order to secure their #LandRights.

Check out the stories of our partners in Kenya and Vanuatu!
bit.ly/4lZRBKN
August 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Using Mapeo to document biodiversity in a territory has proven a powerful tool for Indigenous communities seeking to demonstrate the efficacy of community-based territorial management in order to secure their land rights.

Check out the stories of our partners in Kenya and Vanuatu! bit.ly/4lZRBKN
August 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#IndigenousPeoples and other #EarthDefenders around
the world are using Mapeo to record and report the locations of illegal mines, logging sites, poaching, human rights violations, and other threats to the ecosystems they steward.

Take a look at the stories of our partners!

👉 bit.ly/4lZRBKN
August 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Community-led mapping by #IndigenousPeoples is a key step to demonstrate the ancestral, cultural & spiritual relationships to land to non-Indigenous judges.

Take a look at the stories of how our partners have used #Mapeo to protect their livelihoods & the ecosystems in their care: bit.ly/4lZRBKN
August 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
En honor al Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas, echamos un vistazo al impacto de Mapeo en el mundo. Desde 2016, nuestras organizaciones socias la han usado para mapear y gestionar colectivamente más de 16,8 millones de hectáreas de tierras comunitarias.

¿Quieres saber más? bit.ly/3HomfOO
August 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In honor of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we’re taking a look at the impact of our tool Mapeo. Since 2016, our partners have used it to collectively map and manage over 16.8 million hectares of community lands.

Want to know more? Check out our report!

bit.ly/4lZRBKN
August 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Co-designing an app with #EarthDefenders requires a specific approach to tech development.

Check out our #CoMapeo release strategy, balancing users’ need for stability with the ability to gather feedback on new features early on and evolve them according to their needs.

👉🏾 bit.ly/4odNZ9t
July 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🌱 In May we co-hosted an Indigenous women’s gathering in Brazil, bringing together 90 women from more than five Indigenous nationalities.

🍃 Check out this blog post by Bárbara González Segovia and learn more about this shared space to exchange wisdom for land defense!

👉 bit.ly/43Uh6Xu
June 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Now that CoMapeo is out, we are excited to share the new Categories Library with you! How will this library help you start using CoMapeo to map and monitor your specific environments and contexts?

Take a look at this blog post to find out: bit.ly/3YnenlQ
April 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Awana Digital will be present at Skoll World Forum 2025 this week!

Our CoDirector Emily Jacobi, is joining this yearly event to continue weaving connections with partners and funders who share paths towards #SocioenvironmentalJustice and #IndigenousPeople's rights.

Let us know if you are around!
April 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Do you want to stay tuned to our exciting journey of co-designing CoMapeo with Earth Defenders?

Sign up to our mailing list and receive updates about CoMapeo, our community mapping and monitoring collaborative tool.

👉 Visit comapeo.app and scroll down!
March 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Don't miss the film "In the Shadow of Serengeti” by our Maasai partners Final Governance, about a human rights lawyer fighting to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania.

👉https://www.aljazeera.com/schedule

⏰ (GMT) Tue 08.30am/ Wed 03.30am/ Thur 4.30pm/
Fri 9.30am/11.30pm
February 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"The collected data and digital tools in these cases serve as powerful instruments to challenge government and corporate narratives about the land."

Check out this fantastic article by @privacyint.bsky.social that features our partners’ stories and our co-designed tool, Mapeo.

bit.ly/4aJLKEw
Privacy and autonomy: Redefining boundaries for Indigenous communities
In 2019, the Waorani achieved a huge legal victory against the Ecuadorian government.
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February 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🌱We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer with at least 5 years experience to join our small, collaborative, remote team.

📢Are you interested in using your peer-to-peer skills to build tools for social and environmental justice?

👉Take a look: bit.ly/3OXiDDG
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Awana Digital
Check out this article about some great territorial defense work being done by the Krahô community with support by @luandro.bsky.social and @awana.digital in Brazil
Indigenous women from Krahô communities in Brazil’s Tocantins state have formed a surveillance group to protect their ancestral territory from invaders.

They plan and implement territorial protection actions based on Krahô traditions and ways of life.

Read:
Krahô women lead Indigenous guard to protect territory in Brazil
Across South America, Indigenous communities have often considered territorial protection to be the main responsibility of men, while women typically assume roles as caretakers of the household, famil...
news.mongabay.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Awana Digital
Been working closely with @awana.digital for past 4 years. Here's a few pics from the last #mapeo events with amazing indigenous partners, protecting millions of hectares of Amazon and Cerrado in Brasil. Best use of #p2p tech I'm aware, with an amazing journey and amazing contributors over the years
November 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM
.🥳 Have you tried CoMapeo yet? We are excited for you to try our next-gen territorial monitoring & mapping tool, co-designed with #EarthDefenders.

🌱Download it and map your world, together. New features coming soon!

👉🏾Find it on the Playstore or visit comapeo.app
January 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM