Media Coverage

The conference raised a lot of interest and was covered by the following media:

Online video casting

• Mapping for Change 2005: Report Back: This 13-minute multimedia reportage documents the event, features interviews with PGIS/P3DM practitioners from around the globe and summarizes the process and outcomes of the event.

Printed & electronic press

• Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries: Volume 25; June 2006

• Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) Issue 54 published by IIED and CTA in April 2006

• Multilingual & multimedia CD-ROM version of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) Issue 54 published by IIED and CTA (March 2007)

•  Advancing Together - the Newsletter of the International Land Coalition 2005, Sept-Dec 2005 - Vol 3, No 2

• Mapping for Good Change
  Spore, Issue 120, page 6, December 2005, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development, CTA. Click here for PDF version

• La Cartographie pour le Changement
  Spore, Issue 120, page 6, December 2005, Centre Technique de Cooperation Agricole et Rurale, CTA. Click here for PDF version

• Land owners will soon stop coming to Nairobi
  Science and Technology, The People Daily, 8 November 2005

• Taking Mapping to its Users,
  the NGO Voice. August/September 2005  issue. Click here for PDF version

• Expert wants communities involved in land mapping
  Local communities should be allowed to participate in land demarcation to avert conflicts, a workshop heard yesterday. The East African Standard – 8 September 2005.
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• New land mapping system to give people greater say
  Kenya will soon have an electronic land adjudication system if the Government adopts recommendations by an international conference. The East African Standard - 23 September 2005.
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• Extend land-mapping exercise to other parts of the country too
  The Ministry of Lands has commissioned a land mapping and surveying exercise in the Mau area which is home to the Ogiek community. The East African Standard – 20 September 2005.
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• Barefoot mapmakers and participatory GIS. 2005. ICT Update, CTA-Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (ACP-EU); Vol. 27:2; September 2005

Electronic press

• Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) Issue 54 Multilingual CD-ROM issue published by IIED and CTA (forthcoming)

• Results of the PLA 54 readership survey (23 September 2006)

• Communication Initiative - Materials - PLA-54, August 29 2006

• Review of PLA 54 published on IAPAD on 29 June 2006

• New land mapping system to give people greater say
  Kenya will soon have an electronic land adjudication system if the Government adopts recommendations by an international conference. all Africa.com, 22 September 2005.
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• Konferensi GIS Partisipatif Internasional 2005: Hati-hati dengan PRA
  Situs Geografi Populer, Selasa, Indonesia, 20 September 2005

Radio broadcast

• Kiss FM 7 September, 2005 at 4pm and 6pm

TV broadcast

• KTN TV news on 7 September 2005 at 4PM and 11PM

• KBC TV news on 7 September 2005 at 7PM & 9PM