The Ecocitizen World Map project utilizes crowd mapping, GIS and social media to engage citizens in assessing and improving urban sustainability. Funded by AGEDI, it is guided by Ecocity Builders' International Ecocity Framework. Citizens report observations using mobile apps or websites, with posts translated to maps identifying areas for improvement. The project aims to impact Brazil, Colombia, Egypt and Morocco over its timeline from 2013 to 2016.

1. EcoCitizen World Map
Contact Information
Ecocity Builders
339 15th Street, Suite 208,
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 510-452-9522
Email: kirstin@ecocitybuilders.org
www.ecocitybuilders.org
As part of the Eye on Community Sustainability and Resiliency
Special Initiative, AGEDI has seed funded this project that utilizes
online crowd mapping, GIS and social media Internet applications
to actively engage citizens in learning, sharing and applying
sustainability principles and practices. Guided by an
easy-to-understand rubric for assessing urban health and
sustainability, citizens use simple applications to upload their
observations and reports via mobile phones or the web. Posts are
translated into visual mapping data in order to better assess
avenues for improvements and to monitor progress towards
community health and sustainability targets and goals.
Scientific and sociological underpinnings of the Project are based
on the International Ecocity Framework and Standards Initiative
(IEFS), aka Ecocity Framework, currently under development by
NGO Ecocity Builders and its international expert advisory, and in
consultation with the UNISDR’s “Making Cities Resilient Campaign”
and UN-HABITAT’s World Urban Campaign and Resilient Cities
Profiling Program. AGEDI will provide Year 1 funding support and
ensure that the project is implemented in at least two cities, one of
which would be in the Arab Region.
2012 2014 2015 2017
Project Duration
Project Impact
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Updated 22 June 2014
Benefits
• Updated and revamped EcoCitizen World Map online Portal
featuring the Ushahidi crowdmap platform
• Esri EcoCitizen Map GIS map application
• Project narrations and tutorials presented using multimedia
• Written training module that can be shared with other interested
organizations such as UNISDR’s Collaborative Learning Initiative
for Cities
• A permanent and evolving Project that can be continuously
developed and promoted into the future
The “Ecocitizen World Map” project aims to impact the following
countries: Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, and Morocco.
Entities Involved
• Ecocity Builders
• American Association of
Geographers (AAG)
• Esri
• Ushahidi
• United Nations International
Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (UNISDR)
• United Nations Human
Settlements Programme
(UN-HABITAT)
• World Urban Campaign
• Mundiapolis University
• Cairo University.
Project timeline:
2013 2016
AGEDI Funding

2. Eye on Earth and the 8 Special Initiatives
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Eye On Earth
8 Special Initiatives
At the inaugural EoE Summit in December 2011, eight (8)
Special Initiatives (SIs) were selected. There are considered
the chosen eight initiatives are considered by the Eye on Earth
Community to fundamentally improve the landscape of
environmental and societal information networking for the benefit of
mankind, and from which compelling and tangible results can be achieved
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over the next 2-5 years.
Eye on Earth (EoE) converges initiatives that address the
challenges of increasing access to environmental,
societal, and economic information. More specifically,
EoE is facilitating the global convergence of world class
thinkers, actors and capacity builders with a focus on
resolving data and information gaps, blockages and
needs as required for more effective decision-making
towards sustainable development.
The eight Special Initiatives, 3 foundational and 5 thematic , represent significant
programmes of work. The 3 foundational series address issues that cross-cut the 5 thematic
Special Initiatives and are seen as essential to supporting effective environmental and societal
data and information sharing. Each Initiative is comprised of stakeholders that form a global
community of practice. Together, the SIs represent a major portion of the EoE community.
Stakeholders are actively engaged in moving initiatives forward through exemplary projects
that demonstrate the guiding principles of the EoE Summit Declaration.