InfoAmazonia

	InfoAmazonia provides stories, news and data about the endangered Amazon region
Home page	http://infoamazonia.org/en
Approach	Infoamazonia is a database of map-based data, a participatory project between citizens and journalists to share information about humanitarian and environmental issues in the endangered Amazonian region.
Phase	Released
Tags	environment, Amazonia, Amazonian forest, Infoamazonia, maps, infoviz, crowdsourcing, database, Amazon, and citizen journalism
Partners	oEco, ICFJ, Internews, Avina, and CDKN

Project Start Date	2012
Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Environment
Issue addressed	Damage to the Amazonian region
Geographic Focus	Amazonian region

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Narrative	true
Geographic Map	true
Lists	true
Other Visualisation	true
Raw Data	true

Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	InfoAmazonia provides timely news and reports of the endangered Amazon region.
Approach (How?)	Infoamazonia is a database of map-based data, a participatory project between citizens and journalists to share information about humanitarian and environmental issues in the endangered Amazonian region.
Language	English
Commissioner	Skoll Foundation
Publisher	oEco

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Large Network Twitter : (1957 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 5 Alexa: 1806528 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 40/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 73/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Medium Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : Last updated : 22/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

Tech Best Practices: : : : Code Repository : https://github.com/oeco/infoamazonia-maps : Tool : : : : Database : : Frontend : : : : : Backend : : : : : Data Format : : Data Standard : Technical Documentation URL : : Technical Architecture Documentation : Schema Documentation : Design Documentation : API Documentation :

Data Sources

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Team

Team size and expertise

Team Size : Medium Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Outsourced Design : Dedicated

Project Methodology

What strategies were in place for managing the project?

Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : false Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning : No planning

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : Complex Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Data Licensing : Public Ethical Publishing : Signed project Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Dump