I-Tracker - a new initiative by the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance

[KANNA KUMAR SIRIPURAPU]

You may be interested in a new initiative by the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance that is developing new tools to support Indigenous management of land and sea country – including formally designated Indigenous Protected Areas.

I-Tracker uses the renowned and free Cyber Tracker software (www.cybertracker..org) on rugged handheld PDAs. It provides for electronic user friendly, customisable data collection in the field and data download and management and GIS analysis capacity in the office. It is being taken up enthusiastically by the growing workforce of Indigenous Rangers across north Australia.

Our I-Tracker website is at http://www.nailsma.org.au/projects/i-tracker.html and a video on the Djelk Rangers using I-Tracker can be seen at http://www.nailsma.org.au/projects/nailsma/itracker_whos_involved.html.

A report on the recent review of I-Tracker can be downloaded from http://www.nailsma.org.au/publications/itracker_report.html

We welcome hearing from anyone with similar experience and particularly Indigenous groups who have similar interests in monitoring tools and are interested in sharing learnings.

If you would like to know more about NAILSMA and its other programs please start with a visit to our website - www.nailsma.org.au.

Regards

Dr Rod Kennett
Saltwater Country Management
North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance

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NAILSMA
Purple 12.3.27
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909