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Embedding GIS Applications into Resource Management and Planning Activities of Local and Indigenous Communities

A Desirable Innovation or a Destabilizing Enterprise?

Peter A. Kwaku Kyem

Central Connecticut State University, kyemp{at}ccsu.edu

Geographic Information System’s (GIS’s) capabilities for gathering and disseminating information have been hailed as democratizing, whereas the system is simultaneously criticized as inherently authoritarian. These contradictory characterizations of GIS permeate the current debate on transfer and applications of the technology in indigenous communities. This article reviews the debate in the context of GIS adoption in sub-Saharan Africa. A case study is presented to demonstrate how GIS can be used to assist local community representatives to plan for the protection of local forest resources. The results of the study, which was implemented at Kofiase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, reinforce the belief that GIS can be used for the benefit of indigenous groups rather than for their disempowerment.

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 20, No. 2, 176-186 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X0002000204
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