"Putting the swamp on the Map"
Geographic Information System for community participation in planning
The project aims to contribute to the strengthening of participatory municipal management in the municipality through Swamp develop a "GIS" as a tool for participatory planning of the municipality of La Cienega. The project responds to needs expressed by the (a) s community (a) s. The identification of needs and the general guidelines of the project design have been developed and / or validated in meetings with the (I) Community (o) s which guarantees ownership of the project. The project will be implemented in partnership with community organizations, existing, established and recognized. As key partners we also have the municipal council (ing Francisco Moreta), to the important national institution Citizenship , and National Statistics Office (NSO) . The project was co-funded by the Program of Transparency and Citizen Action (TAC) of USAID (in 5000 U.S. $). News Section
'Geographic Information System'
Section: Geographic Information System , Guanaba.net Community Telecenter (17 Jan '08)
The monthly newsletter "Statistical Overview" (No. 7 SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2007) of the National Statistics Office (ONE) project experience includes the Cienega Putting on the map with the title "MAPS AND MANAGEMENT LOCAL"
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Section: Geographic Information System , Guanaba.net Community Telecenter (2 Nov '07)
What was the process and what were the lessons learned from our little project of information system for community participation in municipal management will. and were presented by Vicky on November 2, 07 at the ESRI User Conference 2007 Latin American
Process and lessons learned from the GEO
Section: Geographic Information System , Strengthening ICT for Community Organizations , Community Telecenter Guanaba.net (22 Sep '07)
The council of the municipality La Cienega and Taigüey Foundation signed an agreement within the framework of the Swamp in putting the map on which they agree to collaborate in the use and future expansion of the GIS tool (Read more ...)
From Section: Culture and Development , Geographic Information System , Strengthening ICT for Community Organizations , Miscellaneous (22 Sep '07)
This Sunday, September 22, 2007, as the climax of the "putting the swamp on the map" was held with the facilitation of Mr. Domingo Matias, an expert in municipal issues, the workshop "Participatory Municipal Planning and the use of Maps" with the objective awareness of / participants in the municipal planning concepts and processes for their operation and applications of GIS planning tool. The workshop was held at the City Library of La Cienega and was attended by 33 people representing various community organizations, aldermen, treasurer and employees of the City Council, representatives of FEDOMU, and the program of Transparency and Citizen Action. (Read more ... )
Section: Geographic Information System , Strengthening ICT for Community Organizations (16 Sep '07)
Geologist facilitation department Raul Ponce mapping National Bureau of Statistics was carried out on data processing workshop with the aim of the / as sovereign participants acquire basic knowledge of Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Process Generation and Updating of Maps with ArcView software and the basic operation. The workshop was held in Guanaba.Net facilities. The workshop was attended by 13 people from the community and the municipality of La Ciénaga (Read more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System (4 Sep '07)
In this post we count various activities forming community volunteer brigade meetings and the list of things that we on the map, plus census (Read more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System (15 Aug '07)
Community census was conducted within the framework of Project Putting Swamp on the map to gather information to georeference. Putting the Census Swamp Map was made by people in the community on 7, 8 and 9 August, they visited every household in the town of La Ciénaga and FUDECO wearing shirts with the campaign of the Anti- Corruption. (Read more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System (July 21 '07)
In order to lift with GPS of all housing, location and references in order to make it easier for families next census to be implemented. It concluded with the geroreferenciacion housing. This was done in the towns of La Ciénaga (town, including FUDECO) by Rudy Mil Medina, Alejandro Diaz and Guevara Oklan Happy Montilla. (Read more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System , Various (4 July '07)
The workshop, intended for / as candidates / as to enumerators, which aimed / participants manage the implementation of the census questionnaire. The same was discussed questions in the census form and was made a census test in which participants took to administer the questionnaire. Also finalized details on the organization of the census, census of housing allocation and how to go to visit the homes. (Read more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System , Guanaba.net Community Telecenter (June 26 '07)
On Sunday June 24, about 15 volunteers to raise the data will be in the Geographic Information System of the community, participated in a workshop on use of GPS. Using a new device and a new technology that will Cienega Map aroused great interest. Read here the GPS Workshop Report . It is noteworthy that this workshop is held the day after June 14 (see Community Workshop Report June 14 "> Community Workshop Report ), which was completed in a participatory way to prioritize areas for geo referencing and variables of interest Community. (Read more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System (June 14 '07)
A workshop was conducted with 25 people in the community to identify the subject areas geo referenced. This was identified about 10 indicators-areas and prioritized areas.
It also reports on the different modalities for the lifting of the information.
Identified areas and see the workshop here -workshop-report-14-06 Community-07.pdf
Section: Geographic Information System , Guanaba.net Community Telecenter (11 Jun '07)
On June 4, 2007 in the morning took place the launch meeting and planning the project "Putting The Swamp on the map." The workshop was planning the launch of the project and defined the responsibilities of different project partners. Also identified possible variables thoughts to geo-reference, and options for collecting information on households and the community. Check memory and document the subsequent methodology for the collection of data (more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System (17 Apr '07)
Grants Fund Program Transparency and Citizen Action of selected USAID project "putting Swamp Map" for financial support. The project aims to contribute to the strengthening of participatory municipal management in the municipality through Swamp develop a "GIS" as a tool for participatory planning of the municipality of La Cienega. (Read more ...)