International Photo Competition launched by CTA (last reminder - resending because of wrong link in previous email)

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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) has launched a Photo Competition.

12 days are left to enter the contest! Participants can win prizes up to Euro 900!

More info at http://pgis.cta.int

CTA, IFAD, the Ford Foundation and other partner organisations are producing a multimedia multilingual training kit supporting the spread of good participatory mapping practice. A collection of images - resulting from the competition - will be included in the kit which will be freely available in different languages in 2010.

 

More information about the competition, its legal conditions, guidelines for submission and procedures of selection and awarding is found at http://pgis.cta.int  

 

The Photo Competition covers the following categories. Note: You can submit 3 photographs per category.

Category 01 - Capacity Building

Photos in a multicultural environment (possibly in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples) that illustrate the act of transferring knowledge and learning.

Category 02 - Attitudes, Behaviours and Ethics

Photos in a multicultural environment (possibly in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples) that evoke, in body language or appearance, the sentiment of good or bad attitudes and behaviours in development work.

Category 03 - Fundamentals of training delivery and facilitation

Photos in a multicultural environment (possibly in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples) that depict the act of transfer of knowledge among adults.

Category 04 - Community Groundwork and Processes

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act of community consultation between "outsiders" and "insiders".

Category 05 - Enabling and disabling environments

Photos that evoke the sentiment of enabling or disabling environments in developmental work.

Category 06 - Choice of Participatory Mapping Method based on purpose, environment and resources

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act of discussion / choosing / possibly comparing different geographic information technologies.

Category 07 - Technical preparation and Logistics

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act and dynamics activities which are introductory to on-filed participatory mapping activities.

Category 08 - Ground and Sketch Mapping

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act and dynamics of participatory ground or sketch mapping.

Category 09 - Participatory Scale Mapping and Surveying

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act and dynamics of participatory scale mapping, the use of GPS in the field and other devices used for measuring and geo-locating features.

Category 10 - Participatory 3D Modelling

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act and dynamics of participatory 3D modelling in all its phases.

Category 11 - Participatory Mapping using aerial and remote sensed images

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act and dynamics of participatory photo interpretation or the participatory use of remote sensed images.

Category 12 - Introduction to GIS for the Purpose of practicing PGIS

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the act and dynamics of using GIS .

Category 13 - Participatory internet based mapping

Photos that depict the act and dynamics of using computers to access and manipulate internet based data .

Category 14 - Documentation

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict the acts of documenting (map making) processes at community level by different means like hand written note-taking, video or audio recording, photographing or using participatory methodologies for gathering data (e.g. democracy walls, etc.)

Category 15 - Action Planning

Photos in Developing Countries and/or among Indigenous Peoples that depict one or more of the following acts: (i) planning; (ii) strategising; (iii) communicating; (iv) networking; and (v) advocacy

 

You are welcome to participate in the competition and to disseminate this announcement.

 

Many thanks

 

Giacomo Rambaldi