Utilizing Technologies to Support Land Governance

As people across the globe turn to information and communication technologies (ICT’s) in their everyday lives, Indigenous Peoples and local communities are also utilizing innovative solutions. Increasingly, communities are integrating their traditional knowledge, skills and values with digital and satellite tools that support them in their efforts to secure their ancestral territories.

Speakers

Anastasia Moloney (Moderator), Thomson Reuters Foundation, is based in Bogota and is TRF's Latin American and Caribbean correspondent. Prior to joining the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2009, she was a freelance journalist covering the Andean region for the Financial Times and other British and U.S. media.

Frank Pichel, Co-Founder and Chief Programs Officer Cadasta, is a land administration specialist with experience designing, managing, and implementing land-related projects with a technology focus around the globe. He has worked both with the private sector in implementing programs while based in West Africa, as well as designing and managing programs as part of the Land Tenure and Property Rights Office for the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Harold Liversage, Lead Land Tenure Technical Specialist International Fund for Agricultural Development, has over 30 years of experience in land and natural resource governance issues, mainly in Eastern and Southern Africa. In his current capacity he is responsible for assisting IFAD to better address land and natural resource tenure security issues in the projects and programmes it supports. This includes supporting IFAD’s engagement in regional and global initiatives such as the Africa Land Policy Initiative, the “Voluntary Guidelines for the Governance of Tenure” and the Global Donor Land Working Group.

Elicio Quintero, COONAPIP Panama, is an organization representing the 12 leaders of the councils that represent the nation’s seven indigenous peoples—the Ngäbe, Kuna, Emberá, Buglé, Wounaan, Naso Tjerdi (Teribe), and Bri Bri groups. COONAPIP has a mandate from the 12 leaders to unite Indigenous people under one national agenda, and the legitimacy to present demands and proposals at the national and international levels.

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