No Forest is an Island

Collaborative Forest Monitoring

Leo Bottrill

Perimeter Defense

September 15th, 2015

Contents

• Background to Moabi

• Forest monitoring challenges

• Two approaches

- Logging roads

- Moabi DRC

- A case study – Mai Ndombe

• OpenMapHub

What is Moabi?

(Baillonella toxisperma)

Technology Partnerships Training

Forest Monitoring Challenges

Institutional

• Ownership

• Independence

• Dynamic

• Scales/Sectors

Technical

• Connectivity

• Replicabilition

• Mobile integration

• User types

Engagers Advocates

Two Forest Monitoring Factions

Data

Logging concessionsDIAF/WRI

Community land tenure

Local civil

society/community

Infrastructure Ministry of

InfrastructureMandated IM reports

IM reports IM

organizations

Satellite

providers

Forest cover/Forest

lossUMD/GFW/OSFAC

Sources

Two Approaches

Traditional

CrowdsourcingBounded

Crowdsourcing

• Over 3000 edits in only three mapathons

• Mapped DRC and Rep. of Congo

• Bridged the conservation and OSM community

Logging Roads

loggingroads.org

Moabi DRC

rdc.moabi.org

A collaborative initiative

monitoring natural

resources in DRC,

particularly REDD+

• Design a sharing

platform

• Build partnerships

• Increase civil society

capacity

Platform

Based on OpenStreetMap

Manage and edit geodata

Publish interactive reports and maps

Integrated with opensource smartphone tools

Institution

- NGOs, Government agencies, and scientific institutions

Consortium

Local civil society (GIS, monitoring)

Funding facility

Competitions

Training

Mai Ndombe

Community monitoring

Mandated Monitors

• Validate community

reports, grievances

Mai-Ndombe

Maindombe

a collaborative platform for editing and

publishing simple, fast and responsive

maps

openmaphub.org

3 components

• Upload using a

desktop/smartp

hone

• Create maps

• Manage access

• Build your own

microsite with

no coding

• Use layers with

other users

• Publish map

stories

• Microsites with

in curated

interactive

maps, reports,

and blogs

Four hubs

moabi.orgleobottrill@moabi.org

Partners