Making local knowledge matter: supporting non-literate people to monitor poaching in Congo
Making local knowledge matter: supporting non-literate people to monitor poaching in Congo
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让当地知识变得重要：支持不识字的人监控刚果的偷猎行为
DOI：
10.1145/2442882.2442884
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2013
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M. Haklay
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作者：
Michalis Vitos;Jerome Lewis;M. Stevens;M. Haklay
本文介绍了一个由不识字的土著人民发起的项目，为他们自己的“公民科学家”配备坚固的智能手机，运行经过调整的软件，使他们能够分享他们的一些详细的环境知识，以改善他们的森林的可持续管理。支持当地人民以科学有效和具有战略针对性的方式分享其环境知识，可以改善环境治理、环境正义和管理做法。刚果雨林中的Mbendjele狩猎采集者正在与伦敦大学学院的ExciteS研究小组合作，使他们对商业猎人活动的当地知识能够改善对商业猎人的控制，减少他们经常受到执行狩猎法规的“生态卫士”的骚扰。为不识字的用户开发和部署一个系统带来了一系列我们试图解决的挑战。我们的反偷猎数据收集平台运行在Android智能手机上，基于图形图标的决策树，并采用各种智能手机传感器来增强观察。我们在这里描述它的发展。
This paper describes a project initiated by non-literate indigenous people to equip their own "citizen scientists" with rugged smartphones running adapted software that enable them to share some of their detailed environmental knowledge in ways that improve the sustainable management of their forest. Supporting local people to share their environmental knowledge in scientifically valid and strategically targeted ways can lead to improvement in environmental governance, environmental justice and management practices. Mbendjele hunter-gatherers in the rainforests of Congo are working together with the ExCiteS Research Group at University College London to make their local knowledge about commercial hunters' activities improve the control of commercial hunters and diminish the harassment they often experience at the hands of "eco-guards" who enforce hunting regulations. Developing and deploying a system for non-literate users introduces a range of challenges that we have tried to solve. Our Anti-Poaching data collection platform, running on Android smartphones, is based on a decision tree of pictorial icons and employs various smartphone sensors to augment observations. We describe its development here.