Moabi

Name/Title: Moabi
Source World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Category Crowdsourcing
Sector Multiple
Technology Platform Open Street Map
Date Started/Timeframe 2008 - present
Website/URL http://moabi.org/
Location emocratic Republic of Congo
Keywords Data Collection, Visualization, Crowdsourcing
Targeted Stakeholder Crowdsourcing communities, data collectors, data management officers

Logging Roads: A joint initiative with the World Resources Institute to map all the logging roads in the Congo Basin using crowdsourcing with Open Street Map software. The logging roads map displays the increase in logging roads for the pre-2000 period, and then for each year from 2000 to 2014. http://loggingroads.org/

Description: Moabi is a collaborative mapping system that uses crowdsourcing to allow users to share, edit and discuss data associated with ecosystem sustainability. Moabi allows individuals and organizations working within sectors such as forestry, mining and agriculture to upload, map and edit spatial information relevant to potential environmental impacts of development activities. Moabi aims to increase transparency and accountability in the natural resource sector. For the forest sector specifically, Moabi has been used to map and monitor logging, forest carbon work, and palm oil and mining activities.


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