Making local knowledge matter: Supporting non-literate people to monitor poaching in Congo

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vitos, Michalis ^a   Stevens, Matthias ^a   Lewis, Jerome ^a   Haklay, Muki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Conservation; Development; Mobile sensing; Natural resource management; Social Environmental justice

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DEVELOPMENT; MOBILE SENSING; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE;

CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; SMARTPHONES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84874820589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2442882.2442884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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