Thanks Harsha, Gagan, will get in touch with you both directly On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 9:19:41 AM UTC+5:30, Gagan Bansal wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > Interesting project, I would like to work for this project. > > Regards, > Gagan > > 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] If we have enough volunteers we may do >> a meetup to work together on this >> >> Best >> Craig >> >
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