Hi Craig, This is wonderful to hear. I am based out of Hyderabad so not sure how much I can help remotely. But would love to know the whole process, and involve myself where ever. I would also want to pilot the learning's in a few hamlets in Andhra(Paderu) & in Telangana (Adilabad & Vikarabad). Do let me know if you are documenting the whole process or coordination somewhere.
Cheers, Harsha On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 10:16:03 PM UTC+5:30, Craig Dsouza wrote: > > Hi all, > this is a call for volunteers interested in learning more data management > practices while assisting rural communities' efforts to manage their forest > lands. > Do read and forward to those interested. > > *Community Forest Management* > > *About the Project* > Approximately 1100 villages in Gadchiroli district in Eastern Maharashtra > have applied for and received 'Community Forest Rights' (CFR) over the last > few years. This means that the Right to Govern land that has been > traditionally used by these villages for collection of forest produce is > now in their own hands. Earlier, State ownership of forest lands always > posed a challenge to sustainable forest management because sale of forest > produce could always be controlled by government, which didn't directly > have a long term interest in the sustainability of the forests. > Village communities in these areas are now coming together to collectively > plan for management of the forest resources and livelihoods in the > district. Dr. Madhav Gadgil, renowned ecologist and his associates have > been in communication with about 50 Gram Sabhas in the region to provide > them with capacity building and technical support to catalogue forest > resources and prepare forest management plans. Datameet Pune has been in > dialogue with Dr. Gadgil on this matter and we have prepared a list of > tasks we could assist them with. > > *Tasks* > 1. Locating Census Codes of the chosen 1100 villages > 2. Extracting tabular data about the villages from various CFR documents > (mostly PDFs) > 3. Preparing an automated process to develop village maps to go with > wikipedia articles that have already developed for each village. > 4. Preparing a process so people in the villages can use a GPS app to mark > out more details of forest lands in their own villages. This information > can then be uploaded and inserted into village maps. > > 5. Help with preparing a project proposal for translating QGIS to Marathi. > This is so people in each village can prepare more detailed maps they can > add to the articles. > 6. Helping prepare a basic curriculum in GIS data collection and analysis > for a diploma course in Community Forest Management for Mumbai University > (which will be taught by Dr. Gadgil among others) beginning Feb, 2018 > > We need help with the above tasks, most of it is volunteer work and some > may involve an honorarium. Those interested and *willing to commit time* > please > contact us at [email protected] <javascript:> If we have enough > volunteers we may do a meetup to work together on this > > Best > Craig > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
