Summit Recordings
Opening Ceremony / Welcome Session
14:00-14:30 Europe - CET | 08:00-08:30 Ecuador | 16:00-16:30 Kenya
Opening Ceremony / Welcome Session
14:00-14:30 Europe - CET | 08:00-08:30 Ecuador | 16:00-16:30 Kenya
Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat
Opening Prayers
- Phil Two Eagle, (Sicangu Lakota) Executive Director of the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council
Welcome Session
- James Rattling Leaf Sr., (Rosebud Sioux Tribe, South Dakota US) Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
- Titus Letaapo, (Samburu Tribe, Kenya) Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance and Managing Director of the Sarara Foundation
- Mario Vargas Shakaim, (Shuar Nation, Ecuadorian Amazon) Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
- Diana Mastracci, GEO Secretariat consultant, GEO Indigenous Alliance
- Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
- Gilberto Camara, Director of the Group on Earth Observations Secretariat
COVID-19
15:00-16:30 Europe - CET | 09:00-10:30 Ecuador | 17:00-18:30 Kenya
COVID-19
15:00-16:30 Europe - CET | 09:00-10:30 Ecuador | 17:00-18:30 Kenya
Moderator: James Rattling Leaf Sr.
Speakers
- Indigenous-led response to Covid-19
Galina Angarova, Executive Director of Cultural Survival - COVID-19 in the Amazon
Mario Vargas Shakaim, Shuar Nation, Ecuadorian Amazon, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance, COICA - Minnie Degawan, Indigenous Peoples and COVID19 Coping Mechanisms and Moving Forward
- Helping Indigenous Communities to Become More "Visible"
Douglas Mbura, GIS Developer for Team Visibility - COVID-19 Response for the Navajo Housing Authority
Nadine Clah, IT Analyst/GIS Coordinator for the Navajo Housing Authority
Lightning Talks
- Deforestation in Brazil is spreading COVID-19 to Brazil's Indigenous peoples
Humberto Laudares, Ph.D., University of Geneva - Terrastories: mapping indigenous place-based oral histories
Rudo Kemper, Digital Democracy - Making Culture Visible and Tracking the Exchange of Value
Leif Grünewald, PhD. UFPR/Indigeniza/United Nations Innovation
Disaster Risk Resilience & Climate Change
17:00-18:30 Europe - CET | 11:00-12:30 Ecuador | 19:00-20:30 Kenya
Disaster Risk Resilience & Climate Change
17:00-18:30 Europe - CET | 11:00-12:30 Ecuador | 19:00-20:30 Kenya
Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat
Speakers
- Gordon Ikayuak Brower, Inupiaq Whaling Captain and Director of Planning in the Planning Department of the North Slope Borough, Alaskan Arctic
- Satellite imagery in support of improved disaster risk reduction for indigenous communities
Einar Bjørgo, Director, Division for Satellite Analysis and Applied Research Manager, UNOSAT - Shuar women, decisions and actions as entrepreneurs of sustainable tourism for territorial defense and mitigating climate change
Yanua Vargas Tanchimia, Indigenous reporter and film-maker from the Ecuadorian Amazon - Free high resolution satellite data for the guardians of the forests
Leif John Fosse, Senior adviser with the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative in the Ministry of Climate and Environment and Sveinung Rotevatn, Minister of Climate and Environment, Norway
Lightning Talks
- Hunting on thin ice
Bradley Brower, Young Inupiaq subsistence hunter from the Alaskan Arctic - Using satellite radar to assist legal action by Colombia forest peoples against illegal gold mining: the Rio Atrato basin, Colombia
Richard Teeuw, University of Portsmouth - EO4E - Access to renewable energy for remote indigenous communities
Valerie Graw, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) - Keepers of the Flame: (Re)vitalizing Indigenous Cultural Fire as Climate Action and Land Stewardship in California
Melinda M. Adams, Ph.D student, Department of Native American Studies The University of California Davis - Wildfire Monitoring in Madagascar
Christian Langer, Dipl.-Ing.(FH) , Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Women Empowerment
15:00-16:30 Europe - CET | 09:00-10:30 Ecuador | 17:00-18:30 Kenya
Women Empowerment
15:00-16:30 Europe - CET | 09:00-10:30 Ecuador | 17:00-18:30 Kenya
Moderator: Caroline Otiwa
Opening Ceremony
Speakers
- A Storyteller With Data
Robbie Hood, Native American atmospheric scientist who was the first Director of NOAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program - Maria Azhunova, 2020 Stanford Bright Award winner, Director Elect of the Land of Snow Leopard Network & Executive Director of the Baikal Buryat Center of Indigenous Cultures
- Framing agreements for the use of traditional and scientific earth observation data in indigenous land management
Gwen Bridge, Principal, Gwen Bridge Consulting Ltd. - Titus Letaapo, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance, Managing Director Sarara Foundation
Lightning Talks
- Transfer of Knowledge - Gender and Intergenerational Considerations in Indigenous Communities
Minnie Degawan, Indigenous Kankanaey-Igoro activist from the Cordillera, Philippines - Empowering Women in Planetary Health: Lessons from Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota, Deninu K'ue First Nation, Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation - Observations to Support Indigenous-led Land Management
Karyn Tabor, Senior Director, Ecological Monitoring, Moore Center for Science
Food Security
17:00-18:30 Europe - CET | 11:00-12:30 Ecuador | 19:00-20:30 Kenya
Food Security
17:00-18:30 Europe - CET | 11:00-12:30 Ecuador | 19:00-20:30 Kenya
Moderator: Catherine Nakalembe
Speakers
- Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Environmental Activist, Coordinator of the Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
- Titus Letaapo, Samburu Tribe, Kenya
- Yon Fernández-de-Larrinoa, Chief, Indigenous Peoples Unit (PSUI) Partnerships and UN Collaborations, PSU FAO
- Arnold Brower Jr, Executive Director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, Inupiaq subsistence hunter, Alaskan Arctic
Lightning Talks
- Desertification Gradient Influences on the Livelihood Vulnerability of Wayuu Indigenous Communities of La Guajira, Colombia
Douglas DaSilva, University of Zurich - The Namunyak App/ Symbols Map App
Yoanna Dimitrova - Scaling up EO for community-based forest management under ESA's EO4SD Forest Management initiative
Andy Dean, EO4SD Forest Management Project / Hatfield Consultants - Smart Agriculture Innovative Hub - SMARTAFRIHUB - for Smart Agriculture Capacity Building in Africa
Karel Charvat, Plan4all
Education / Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer
15:00-16:30 Europe - CET | 09:00-10:30 Ecuador | 17:00-18:30 Kenya
Education / Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer
15:00-16:30 Europe - CET | 09:00-10:30 Ecuador | 17:00-18:30 Kenya
Moderator: James Rattling Leaf Sr.
Opening Ceremony
- Ripo Lenkokwai, is a Samburu elder, among the key decision makers in the Samburu community.
Speakers
- SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network and Mapping Platform
Candice (Pedersen) Sudlovenick - Virtual Capacity Building with Indigenous Communities and NASA
Cindy Schmidt, Associate Program Manager for NASA’s Earth Science Applied Science Ecological Forecasting Program - Indigenous Mapping Workshops
Steve DeRoy, co-founder, director of the FireLight Group
Lightning Talks
- Adapting educational / research tools to strengthen the livelihood of the Maya local communities
Luc Zwartjes, Prof. Dr. Philippe De Maeyer, Dr. Mario Hernandez Ghent University, Geography Department - Citizen Science with the CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow) Network
Ulyana Horodyskyj, Dr. Martin Stuefer, University of Alaska Fairbanks - Using Drones for Monitoring and Mapping Indigenous Territories
Nina Kantcheva Tushev, Co-founder, Tushevs Aerials; Senior Policy Adviser for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Engagement, Global Program for Nature for Development, UNDP - Sharing observations of coastal Arctic Alaska Change
Olivia Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks - Online Training in Earth Observations for Indigenous Peoples Land Management
Ana Prados, Karyn Tabor, Amber McCullum, David Hunt, Jenny Hewson, Eddy Mendoza, Christian Martinez, and Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
17:00-18:30 Europe - CET | 11:00-12:30 Ecuador | 19:00-20:30 Kenya
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
17:00-18:30 Europe - CET | 11:00-12:30 Ecuador | 19:00-20:30 Kenya
Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat
Speakers
- IDSov, GIDA, CARE Principles
Stephanie Carroll, Assistant Professor Public Health, Associate Director Native Nations Institute, Chair Global Indigenous Data Alliance - Enacting Indigenous Data Governance, Traditional Knowledge/Biocultural Labels/Notices
Maui Hudson, Associate Professor and Director, Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato & Jane Anderson, Associate Professor, ENRICH New York University - Presentation Bridging from Research to Community
Dominique M. David-Chavez, Post Doctoral Indigenous Data Sovereignty Fellow, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Dept, Colorado State University; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Science Foundation - Thomas Kenote, Geoscience Project Director, College of Menominee Nation and the Sustainable Development Institute located on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin
Moderator: Yariwo Kitiyo
Lightning Talks
- Preserving Indigenous knowledge with decentralized data collaboratives
Graise D. Lee Jenni, MS., PhD. Partner and Co-Founder, & Maria Baron Palamar, DVM., PhD. Nick Bryne. Scott Veirs, PhD. Resolve Conservation - Mapping Digital Sovereignty
Towagh Behr, Principal Anthropologist, Deborah Demers, Digital Services and Research Support & Media and Sarah Boivin, Digital Services Manager, Kwusen Research - OpenTEK: recognizing traditional ecological and indigenous knowledge in international climate policy
Ramin Soleymani, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Implications of High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Lea Shanley, PhD, Senior Fellow, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, University of Mississippi; Merv Tano, International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management; and Steve Ventura, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Closing Ceremony / Remarks
18:30-19:00 Europe - CET | 12:30-13:00 Ecuador | 20:30-21:00 Kenya
Closing Ceremony / Remarks
18:30-19:00 Europe - CET | 12:30-13:00 Ecuador | 20:30-21:00 Kenya
Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat
Closing remarks
- Gilberto Camara, GEO Secretariat Director
- Titus Letaapo, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
- James Rattling Leaf Sr., Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
- Mario Vargas Shakaim, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
- Nikhil Seth, Executive Director of UNITAR
Closing prayers
- Gemma Lockhart, (Sicangu Lakota) Journalist, filmmaker and owner of a small production company