HISTORY

Google Earth Outreach was born out of a successful environmental campaign in 2005 to stop a logging project in the mountains of Santa Cruz, California, in the United States.

Shortly after, the chief of the Paiter Suruí in the state of Rondônia, Brazil, learned about Google Earth and contacted the Google Earth Outreach team. His goal was to seek support to use Google Earth for the Suruí people's mapping needs for environmental and cultural preservation. This is how the New Technologies and Traditional Peoples Program started in the Amazon.

Since 2007, the New Technologies and Traditional Peoples Program has been supporting more than 50 communities among Indigenous peoples, Quilombolas and small producers with the implementation of their practices related to the sustainable use of their territories, through activities that involve development, shared knowledge on how to use the tools, and support for field activities and data collection.

Here, in collaboration with Ecam, we provide the training materials that are used in the training of the New Technologies and Traditional Peoples Program.