Launch of crowdsourcing campaign Urundata
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RESTORE+ launched its pilot crowdsourcing campaign in Indonesia. The campaign uses a mobile application that allows contributions of the crowd to scientific assessments and supporting policy-making efforts. |
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RESTORE+ aims at strengthening participatory and evidence-based land use policy making to inform forest and landscape restoration targets and strategies in Indonesia. This approach requires latest data, verified and complemented with on-the-ground information. To this end, RESTORE+ launched its first crowdsourcing campaign on the “Urundata” (in English, donate data) platform in Palembang, South Sumatra on Thursday, 11 April. The platform is initiated by RESTORE+ consortium partners in Indonesia, with a vision that it be a nationally owned, collaborative data collection platform.
Urundata is a mobile application used to capture the knowledge and experience of “the crowd” to collect relevant data on land cover analysis, detailed field information on targeted locations for peat degradation, and to survey restoration preferences on targeted locations. “With the development of this technology, the process of collecting data is no longer expensive and difficult. Through a crowdsourcing approach, this process can be facilitated by involving public contributions” said Andree Ekadinata from ICRAF, the World Agroforestry Center in Indonesia and part of the RESTORE+ consortium.
Data can be contributed by participating in various data-generating activities and serious games (adapted from the IIASA Geo-Wiki platform) that are integrated into the Urundata mobile application. From April to July 2019, users can contribute by playing Pilahpilih (Picture Pile) to help interpret satellite images into land cover information. Successfully collected data and information will then be processed and can be reused by the broader interested public. The results of the crowdsourcing campaigns are expected to help develop a portfolio of sustainable restoration options.
Urundata was introduced in South Sumatra in collaboration with 10 local universities. "Hopefully the Urundata application can produce accurate and good data, which can then be used in policy formulation at the regional and national level," said Ahmad Muslim, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Planning, Cooperation and Information Systems at Sriwijaya University, as the representative of universities in South Sumatra.
Complete information about the Urundata application can be found at urundata.id.
The Urundata application is available for free on the Google Play Store and can be downloaded via the http://bit.ly/unduh-urundata link.
In the news:
https://www.mongabay.co.id/2019/04/15/urundata-data-publik-yang-menjawab-masalah-bentang-alam/
Urundata is a mobile application used to capture the knowledge and experience of “the crowd” to collect relevant data on land cover analysis, detailed field information on targeted locations for peat degradation, and to survey restoration preferences on targeted locations. “With the development of this technology, the process of collecting data is no longer expensive and difficult. Through a crowdsourcing approach, this process can be facilitated by involving public contributions” said Andree Ekadinata from ICRAF, the World Agroforestry Center in Indonesia and part of the RESTORE+ consortium.
Data can be contributed by participating in various data-generating activities and serious games (adapted from the IIASA Geo-Wiki platform) that are integrated into the Urundata mobile application. From April to July 2019, users can contribute by playing Pilahpilih (Picture Pile) to help interpret satellite images into land cover information. Successfully collected data and information will then be processed and can be reused by the broader interested public. The results of the crowdsourcing campaigns are expected to help develop a portfolio of sustainable restoration options.
Urundata was introduced in South Sumatra in collaboration with 10 local universities. "Hopefully the Urundata application can produce accurate and good data, which can then be used in policy formulation at the regional and national level," said Ahmad Muslim, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Planning, Cooperation and Information Systems at Sriwijaya University, as the representative of universities in South Sumatra.
Complete information about the Urundata application can be found at urundata.id.
The Urundata application is available for free on the Google Play Store and can be downloaded via the http://bit.ly/unduh-urundata link.
In the news:
https://www.mongabay.co.id/2019/04/15/urundata-data-publik-yang-menjawab-masalah-bentang-alam/
