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Issue no. 69
December 2012

Crowdsourced land rights

Crowdsourcing can improve land tenure security in poor communities
Mapping trees for food security

A crowdsourcing experiment in Mauritius aims to locate breadfruit trees
Springboard for crowdsourcing

A Jamaican app runs on open data and visualises agricultural information
ICTs for indigenous knowledge preservation

Libraries in South Africa collect indigenous knowledge through crowdsour...

Guest editor

Engaging with the crowd

Crowdsourcing is booming thanks to innovative technology and new developments. But the logistics of setting up crowdsourcing projects in remote rural areas in developing countries is a major challenge.

Q&A

Funded by the crowd

Dan Kisauzi, managing consultant at the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), explains how local rural development organisations can make use of crowd-funding.

Bookmarks

What can crowdmaps do for me?

A crowdmap is a tool that allows people to collect, visualise and map crowdsourced information in support of spatial decision making and information dissemination.

Tech Talk

Social media as advocacy tool

Hudson Wereh Shiraku is a project assistant at Biovision. He runs a blog about youth and agriculture and uses ICTs as advocacy tool to promote organic agriculture.