The document discusses a project aimed at empowering remote populations in the Peruvian Amazon to report human rights and environmental abuses through a mobile toolkit. It details a pilot project that involved fieldwork with indigenous communities impacted by oil contamination, including training local monitors and testing water quality. Future updates can be found on the Digital Democracy website.

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Launching Remote
Access in the
Peruvian Amazon

2. Remote Access:
A mobile toolkit to empower
populations in remote, off-the-grid
locations to share information on
human rights & environmental abuses
Winner: January 2013 Knight News Challenge

3. Remote Access has three components,
focused on helping users document,
manage and share information

4. Initial fieldwork
Pilot Project: Peru
• 3 weeks with indigenous
communities in oil-impacted areas
• 2 weeks of meetings with
government & advocacy partners
in Lima

5. Dd Team:
Gregor & Emily

6. Telmo
Community-based
monitors

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Rafael

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Adam

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Salvador

10. C
Context

11. Challenge: 40 years of oil contamination

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Testing a “remediated site”

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Visible oil at the
“remediated site”

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15. C
What did we do?

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Field visits
near the
Ecuador
border

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Walking the
pipeline

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Collecting water samples

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Four-day workshop

20. Dd team
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Hand-drawn maps

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Practicing with handheld GPS

23. • Tool development for Peru pilot
• Coordinating with local monitors
• Training for women monitors
• Coordinating with efforts in
Guyana, Ecuador & beyond
What’s next?
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