VGI and indigenous knowledge (COST Energic)
Channel: COST IC1203
Date: 16/05/2015

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is at the centre of attention of the COST Energic action. COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe (see http://www.cost.eu/about_cost ). Within the COST programme, action IC1203 is the European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC).

One very valuable form of VGI is coming from participatory projects between researchers and indigenous communities, and this short film provide examples from Bolivia, British Columbia, and the Congo Basin, where researchers in the network are working with local communities to collect information about their areas and issues that concern them.

Video produced by Lou del Bello, and include stock photos and footage. The images that are marked with titles are from COST Energic Activities. 

COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020