The CA Indigena project (Centroamérica Indígena, `Indigenous Central America´) tries to assist indigenous groups in the governance of their lands, while researching why some indigenous groups are more successful at acheiving cultural, political, territorial, and environmental stability than others.
The team is also developing strategies which incorporate remotely-sensed imagery with participatory researching mapping data, to create a web map portal that is frequently updated, illustrates historical resource management, and whose content and appearence is fundamentally controlled by the indigenous stakeholders.
Initial results include a better understanding of the emergence of new territorial jurisdictions in Honduras, and of the complicated nature of creating local management and governance structures in the area. Challenges include variations in official spatial data, both among and within countries. (ver abajo en español)