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Participatory GIS (PGIS) involves local communities in mapping their local areas and resources. This empowers them by giving them control over spatial information and data about their lands and territories. PGIS is used for a variety of purposes like protecting land rights, managing natural resources, and advocating for environmental justice and indigenous rights. By making their own maps, local communities can better assert their claims and resolve disputes with governments and companies. Modern technologies now allow participatory mapping to be shared more widely online.

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W. Gumindoga

Participatory GIS (PGIS) involves local communities in mapping their local areas and resources. This empowers them by giving them control over spatial information and data about their lands and territories. PGIS is used for a variety of purposes like protecting land rights, managing natural resources, and advocating for environmental justice and indigenous rights. By making their own maps, local communities can better assert their claims and resolve disputes with governments and companies. Modern technologies now allow participatory mapping to be shared more widely online.

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Participatory GIS

W. Gumindoga
Why PGIS
• Spatial information technologies, including GIS, GPS, remote sensing
software and open access to spatial data and imagery, empower
those who command them.
• Differential access can lead to gains to powerful people and interests
to the disadvantage of communities and local people, further
marginalizing those already marginalized.
• PGIS is a generic term for approaches which seek to reverse this.

• “Good PGIS practice should ensure that spatial knowledge located on


a map is not separated from the wisdom (moral, ethical and cultural
values) which is attached to it.” Nigel Crawhall, 2007
Why PGIS
• PGIS enables local people to make their own maps and models, and
using these for their own research, analysis, assertion of rights and
resolution of conflicts over land, and often reversing power relations
with government organizations, politicians and corporations.
• The power of participatory mapping is also being amplified by the
opportunities offered by the Internet (Web 2.0 and Social Media).
• Nowadays mapping is usually combined with video production and
use of social media to spread the information and call for action
which is particularly relevant in advocacy work.
• Community mapping is one form of participatory mapping.
So what is partipatory GIS
• Participatory approaches to
• planning and spatial information
• and communication management.
Images of participatory GIS
Applications of participatory GIS
• protecting ancestral lands and resource rights
• management and resolution of conflicts over natural and water
resources
• collaborative resource use planning and management
• intangible cultural heritage preservation and identity building among
indigenous peoples and rural communities
• equity promotion with reference to ethnicity, culture, gender, and
environmental justice
• hazard mitigation, for example through community safety audits
• and peri-urban planning and research and climate change adaptation
Guide to use community mapping
Assignment
• Improve the existing map of UZ through participatory GIS and other mapping techniques e.g.
GPS
• Interact with university community to improve the existing map
• Students (res and non-res)
• Staff (lectures and non academic staff)
• Non-UZ community???
• Areas to focus on
• Mapping available water sources (both surface and groundwater)
• Determining and mapping areas of water usages on campus (irrigation, boreholes, ponds,
construction, dining halls, lecture rooms etc.)
• Sources of water pollution on UZ campus (both surface and groundwater)
• Visualizing data on GIS platforms, Google Earth, Web, Phones etc
• Baseline datasets given for you:
• Buildings
• Boreholes
• Roads
• Rivers

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