Promoting participatory ICTs for adding value to traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation, advocacy and policy processes in the Pacific and Caribbean CTA provides capacity building in Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS), mobilizes funds and builds partnerships to promote the inclusion of grassroots in multi-stakeholder land and resource use planning processes in the cont ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...