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Tobagonians hand over the Participatory 3D model to the Tobago House of Assembly

Posted: Tuesday, 23 October 2012

12 October 2012, SCARBOROUGH - Tobagonians, today, handed over the participatory 3D model of Tobago to the Tobago House of Assembly’s (THA’s) Secretary of Agriculture, Marine Affairs, Marketing and the Environment, the Honourable Gary Melville. The hand-over ceremony, which took place at the auditorium of the Tobago Hospitality and Training Institute at Mount St. George (close ...

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Participatory 3D model of Tobago seen as time capsule

Posted: Tuesday, 16 October 2012

SCARBOROUGH, October 7, 2012 - On the morning of Sunday 7 October, the air in the room where the participatory 3D model is being built, is tense but hopeful. Trainees, facilitators and informants work at a steady pace, but there is animated discussion on the ICC Twenty 20 Cricket World Cup game between the West Indies and Sri Lanka, being played halfway across the world. Later in the day, aft ...

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Participatory video - an effective evaluation tool

Posted: Sunday, 14 October 2012

14 October 2012, SCARBOROUGH - The volume of information to be collected from informants on their natural resources, climate change impacts and the measures they use to cope or adapt to these impacts, is best dealt with using a video camera, said Kathrina Collins, President of the Union Island Environmental Attackers from St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Katrina recalled that learning how to use t ...

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First Participatory 3D Model built in the Caribbean

Posted: Saturday, 13 October 2012

13 October 2012, SCARBOROUGH - One hundred and six Tobagonians participated in transposing their mental recollections of the impact of climate change on their natural resources and how they are adapting to climate change on the participatory 3D model of Tobago. Informant, Lyris Walker called it a piece of work “for the people, by the people and of the people”. Indeed, the importance of facilitatin ...

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