O'onowa

Help pastoralist communities around the world preserve their livelihood, by providing them access to information and resources (e.g grass land, water, safe routes) to prepare and support their migration journey.

The objective of the project is to design a working prototype for a mobile application which provides pastoralists community with information on land monitoring: water availability, grassland, and assist communities in networking.

Biggest nomadic pastorialism community –so far– in Colombia is the Wayúu community. We aim to help people be ready for the challenges coming from climate change, giving them near-realtime information –gotten from NASA– about water resources, food for livestock as well as exchange and commerce places to ensure their existence. So, efficient information about which routes people should take in order to get those resources easily, thus they avoid restricted routes, and finally, they can mantain peaceful relationships with fellow communities. We don't want to be a source of information, but a help in taking easy, efficient decisions.

Also, is intended to achieve realtime information through sensors installed in those people's places, creating systems to gather new satellite images even simpler and getting feedback from communities.

Finally, we give people useful data –such as climate and tips– through SMS messages.