NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND TRADITIONAL
PEOPLES PROGRAM

Since 2007, the New Technologies and Traditional Peoples Program has been supporting indigenous peoples, quilombolas and small producers in the implementation of their practices related to the sustainable use of their territories, through activities that involve training actions, where knowledge is shared for the use of tools and support for field activities and data collection.

The objective of the program is to promote the use of accessible and free Google tools, such as Google Earth, ODK and YouTube. These technologies can support practices related to the management of territories and give visibility to the stories and demands of communities.
The material is the product of a long-term collaboration between Google Earth Solidário, the Amazon Conservation Team (Ecam) and several communities that have been involved over these 12 years of work. This initiative also includes partners Metareilá Association of Surui Indigenous People (Gamebey), Association of Ethno–Environmental Defense Kanindé, Association of Quilombola Remnants – ARQMO, National Coordination for Articulation of Quilombola Black Rural Communities – CONAQ, Natura and the United States Agency for International Development USAID.

The head of the Paiter Suruí people in the state of Rondônia, in Brazil, visited Google Earth and contacted the Google Earth Solidário team. His goal was to seek support from Google Earth for Surui’s mapping needs for environmental and cultural preservation. That’s how the project started. Since 2007, the project has grown to more than thirty traditional communities living in the Amazon area. Here, in collaboration with Ecam, we provide the training materials that were used to start the community’s own mapping.