"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 of La Cienega through 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 main partners 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 Programme for Transparency and Citizen Action (TAC) of USAID (in 5000 U.S. $). News Section
'Geographic Information System'
Section: Geographic Information System , Community Telecenter Guanaba.net (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 , Community Telecenter Guanaba.net (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 in the Latin American Conference 2007 ESRI User
Process and lessons learned from 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)
On Sunday, September 22, 2007, as the climax of the "putting the swamp on the Map" was held under 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 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 NSO workshop was held on data processing in order that / participants acquire knowledge sovereign Basic Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Process Generation and Updating of Maps with ArcView software and the basics. The workshop was held in Guanaba.Net facilities. The workshop gathered 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 brigades voluntary community 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 the Project putting Swamp Map for gathering 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 all homes GPS, location and references in order to make it easier for families next census to be implemented. Geroreferenciacion was concluded with the houses. This was done in the towns of La Ciénaga (village, including Fudeco) by Mil Rudy 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, aimed to the / 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 implement the survey. 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 , Community Telecenter Guanaba.net (26 June '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 using GPS. Using a new device and a new technology that will Cienega Map aroused great interest. Please read the GPS Workshop Report . It is noteworthy that this workshop is held the day after 14 June (see the Community Workshop Report June 14 "> Community Workshop Report ) which was completed in a participatory prioritization of areas to geo referencing and variable 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 was also informed about the different modalities for the lifting of the information.
View areas identified here and the workshop -workshop-report-14-06 Community-07.pdf
Section: Geographic Information System , Community Telecenter Guanaba.net (11 Jun '07)
On June 4, 2007 in the morning took place the launch meeting and planning the project "Putting Swamp Map." The workshop was planning the launch of the project and defined the responsibilities of different project partners. Also, thoughts identified possible variables to geo-reference, and options for collecting information on households and the community. View the memory of the document and subsequent methodology for the collection of data (more ...)
Section: Geographic Information System (17 Apr '07)
The Fund Grant 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 of La Cienega through develop a "GIS" as a tool for participatory planning of the municipality of La Cienega. (Read more ...)