We’re excited to share the blog introducing CoMapeo Abare, our new open-source app co-designed with Indigenous communities to support environmental defenders around the world. ➡️ Read the full story: comapeo.app/post/introdu...
Luandro
@luandro.bsky.social
Working with Awana Digital, Coolab and others to empower native communities and their ways of life. From Pindo Abya Ayala (named Brazil by invaders), has lived for the past 11 years in a Quilombola (maroon) community learning to be human.
.🥳 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
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
Mongabay@mongabay.com · 2y agoIndigenous 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:
The next major fight to protect water is the unholy nexus between Big Oil and Big Tech: www.techpolicy.press/why-we-dont-...
Why We Don’t Know AI's True Water Footprint | TechPolicy.Press
Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?
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Research on #communityai: arxiv.org/html/2407.12... Key takeaways: - Fine-tuning makes tailored tools viable - Data sovereignty & community collaboration fosters trust and relevance - Data scarcity requires innovative training techniques - Risk of biases, hallucinations, and ethical contamination
Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Vitalize Endangered Indigenous Languages: Technologies and Experiences
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Análise interessante da realidade social-política do Brasil, e porque a população de baixa renda muitas vezes vota contra seus próprios interesses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-0U...
'Pobre de direita' sente-se humilhado e move-se pela moral | Poder em Pauta com JESSÉ SOUZA
YouTube video by CartaCapital
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"Bots mimicking this data are no substitute for fluid, embodied human language in all its natural variation, situated in actual human contexts. The danger is that increasingly we won’t even be able to recognize the real thing." www.thedial.world/articles/new...
AI Won’t Save Endangered Languages — The Dial
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
thedial.world
so I said we'd write something about "AI", well, here it is - #DataBack Vol 2: Truth Before “Indigenous AI”. Understanding and Resisting Generative AI animikii.com/databack/und...
Understanding and Resisting Generative AI — Animikii Indigenous Technology
Animikii empowers Indigenous communities with culturally informed technology solutions like Niiwin—our groundbreaking tool for Indigenous data sovereignty and community empowerment.
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Honored to have spent a week recently at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia with my co-conspirators, technical collaborators, and good friends from @awana.digital. The week before, we established integration between #CoMapeo and #GuardianConnector.
Proud to have a few of my photos from collaborations with CIPDP Chepkitale (Ogiek) in Mount Elgon, Kenya featured in this top-notch report by #ForestPeoplesProgramme! Congratulations to all involved.
Oxford Biology@biology.ox.ac.uk · 2y ago🚨 A major new report on conservation and human rights was launched yesterday at COP16 by @iccs.bsky.social and Forest Peoples Programme The report outlines a rights-based approach to conservation 👇 bit.ly/3YHgPEl
Emissões de CO2 de combustíveis fósseis continuam crescendo O 2024 Global Carbon Budget projeta emissões de dióxido de carbono fóssil ( #CO2 ) de 37,4 bilhões de toneladas, um aumento de 0,8% em relação a 2023 #mudançasclimáticas #COP29 Leia no link is.gd/UHMiPO
Emissões de CO2 de combustíveis fósseis continuam crescendo
O 2024 Global Carbon Budget projeta 2emissões de dióxido de carbono fóssil (CO2) de 37,4 bilhões de toneladas, um aumento de 0,8% em relação a 2023
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I believe AI is a natural evolution of computation like socialmedia of the www. While social media isnt inherently bad big tech made it a tool for addiction and polarization. NLP enables oral, low-literacy, communities to interact through orality with machines. What would a #communityai look like?
The rainy season is perfect for grass growth, and neighbors mow their lawns. We trade: I gather their grass, and take it to cover the #agroforest. Afternoon work: 1: Collect the grass 2: Remove excess cover crop without harming plants 3: Carefully cover the soil with the grass Finally, its ready!
A few years ago, my mom gave me a Callisia repens for decoration. We forgot it, and it spread across the #agroforest, suffocating everything. I hated it, but I’ve made peace: during the dry season, it covers the soil, and though hard to remove, its compost and tiny roots work wonders for the soil.
Had an accident while sharpening the machete and it went about 15mm deep into my finger cutting into my nail. Treated with medicine found in the #agroforest. First some powdered turmeric and some banana sap to stop the bleeding, then sangra d'água (Croton urucurana) sap to completely close the wound
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
Still growing a food forest in my backyard and after 8 years the soil entropy has become amazing with little external input. In just a few m², we've got kale, turmeric, mulberries, castor beans, papaya, jatobá trees, terramycin, mustard, pineapple, lemon, thyme & more thriving together #agroforestry
Dê-me pequi infinito e serei vegano. Época boa de fruta no Goiás!
I'm still working closely with Awana Digital (former Digital Democracy) and our Community Networks collective, Coolab, with the unified goal of strengthening community autonomy through co-developed digital technologies and methodologies to make them useful and accessible.
It's been a long while since I've interacted with the broader online world. Let's try to change that. Great to see old friends from SSB here, as well as others that I admire from around the world.