Programme

Registration

Welcome address and introduction to the conference agenda

Plenary - Keynotes addresses on the primary issues facing PGIS practice and dissemination worldwide

Plenary - Case studies presentations – selected exemplary case studies highlighting enabling / disabling environments including regulatory, strategic policy, legal, and institutional capacity, conditions.

Plenary – open forum - discussion

Parallel sessions by Working Groups (WGs) discussing enabling / disabling environments

Plenary - Presentation of results by WGs and listing/ranking exercise.

Evening Welcome social event

Methodological issues

Plenary – presentations followed by discussions

Plenary – open forum / discussions

Parallel sessions on methodological issues (Presentations)

• Track 1: Methods for representing local knowledge

• Track 2: Ethics of PGIS practice

• Track 3: Supporting cultural heritage preservation and identity building among indigenous peoples and rural communities

• Track 4: Participatory numbers (issues of scale, accuracy, etc.) Working Groups discussing methodological issues

Plenary - Presentation of WGs results and their discussion

Implementation issues

Plenary - presentations followed discussions

Parallel sessions on PGIS implementation issues, including the following contexts:

• Track 1: Land and resource rights and entitlements,

• Track 2: Participatory land use planning and collaborative natural resource management

• Track 3: Conflict management and amelioration

• Track 4: Networking and Communication

Plenary – Presentation of WG outputs WG

Parallel sessions - Regional working groups: defining the way forward including setting priorities

Plenary - Presentation of results by WG

Plenary - summarising of results

Closure

Evening Conference dinner

Field trip