Digital Democracy

$20,000 to contribute to travel costs for 40 Indigenous participants from 14 countries & 4 continents traveling to the Ecuadorian Amazon to attend a gathering of members of the Earth Defenders Toolkit network to be in community with one another, share strategies, learn from each other’s struggles, and build collective power to protect their territories and cultural legacies. The Earth Defenders Toolkit is a collaborative space for Indigenous and frontline communities and their allies to connect and learn from each other, as well as have access to and ownership of free digital tools in local languages that can be used for mapping territory, data collecting and monitoring, storytelling, and securely collaborating and sharing information within communities and with partners.