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Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools

Patricia Lustosa Brito*, Daniel Nadier Cavalcanti Reis*, Ricardo Lustosa Brito**, Vivian de Oliveira Fernandes*, Mauro Alixandrini*

• Escola Politécnica of Universidade Federal da Bahia,

Brazil ** Escola de Medicina Veterinária of Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

• Master Program in Urban Environmental Engineering

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Article Motivation and Goal

• High- geotech tools are not so far away any more from

the most needed communities;

• We hear about projects using it;
• What are they doing?
• How are they dealing with the gap between high

technology and low life quality? Between local and global?

• Goal: Present some experiences that show how these

tools are helping unprivileged communities to take their place in this new globalized world, while empowering themselves to comprehend and effectively participate on a sustainable territorial planning and management.

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

– Global Navigation Satellite System – Geobrowsers – Remote Sensing Products – Geographic Information Systems – Collaborative internet mapping

Some High Geo-tech Tools

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Methodology

Experiences source:

• Internet general and academic

search engines using Portuguese keywords related to the theme

• Collaborative maps platforms
• Brazilian GIS specialized

journal

• Experiences in which some of

the authors have participated

Figura busca na internet

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Methodology

A catalog of Brazilian experiences with a representative number of contributions was created. Brazilian projects or publications that presented an experience

• f poor communities that have

participated on the process of mapping themselves were identified and described.

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

https://catalogodemapascoletivosbr.crowdmap.com

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Some experiences identified

• WIKIMAPA project - Rio de Janeiro slums
• Kabu Institute - Kayapó indigenous
• PNGEO (National Program for

Georeferenced Beekeepers Registry)

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

WIKIMAPA project - Rio de Janeiro slums

wikimapa.org.br

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

wikimapa.org.br

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

• The project located in an Amazonia
• Conceived for Kayapó indigenous by a company

specialized in GIS.

• Use geotechnology to assist in the preservation
• f the indigenous area.

– GPS devices to collect the coordinates of locations where there is some kind of illegal practice. – Information is added to maps and reports, developed by Kabu Institute, and sent to the Federal Police and to Funai (National Indigenous Foundation).

www.kabu.org.br

Kabu Institute

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Kabu Institute - Kayapó indigenous

Etnomapeamento, aldeia Apeyti

www.kabu.org.br

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

PNGEO – Beekeepers at rural communities

Goals:

• Investigate possible improvement for

honey production,

• Generate a geographical data base for

CBA planning and monitoring activities 1.5km

http://www.brasilapicola.com.br/pngeo

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Geotech use:

• beekeepers and professional rural

assistants collect geographical coordinates using GPS devices and to register information about beekeepers residences, apiaries, honey processing houses, water sources, agrochemical farming, etc.

• Google Earth is also used as a plug-

in application of the software TrackMaker, allowing rural producers to recognize apiaries distribution according to land cover.

PNGEO – Beekeepers at rural communities

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

PNGEO/CBA program execution steps

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Discussion and conclusion

• Popularity of GNSS

technology

• Smartphones with GNSS

receiver are not yet popular at poor comunities, but mobiles with digital camera features are.

• Access to internet has

been highly improved at under privileged urban communities, as well as at small towns at poor regions of Brazil.

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Discussion and conclusion

• Extension of Brasil x capilarity

achieved by rural assistants professionals

• Motivation for voluntier

collaboration x NGOs, Universities x Government role

• Bet on youth participation
• Continuous volunteer participation

demands results.

Local leaders are tired of meetings, labs and pilot projects that require a lot of their time and do not turn into any benefit* to their community;

(at all levels)

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Discussion and conclusion

• absence of the

government in territorial planning and actions at slums;

• city maps, where

community features do not appear;

• a place in a web map

may become a place in society.

Very small municipality (Itatim – BA) at wikimapia Poor comunity área at Rio de Janeiro

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Acknowledgements

Federal University of Bahia and Master Program in Urban Environmental Engineering

Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.

Open positions (3) at Federal University of Bahia! Full time professor in the areas of:

• 1. Geodesy
• 2. Topography
• 3. RS, GIS and

Cartography

www.concursos.ufba.br

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

britopatricia@hotmail.com