Peru’s Indigenous tribes use tech tools to track Amazon deforestation
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Peruvian Indigenous groups equipped with remote sensing technology and satellite-based alerts have been helping to track and report forest loss in the Amazon as drug trafficking fuels deforestation, research published on Monday showed. Members of nearly 40 Indigenous communities in Peru’s northern border region of Loreto were trained to use smartphone […]
Trackers to mask detectors: India bets on COVID tech amid privacy fears
ANNIE BANERJI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the Indian Government is using high tech solutions to stop the spread of coronavirus – and how its leading to rising concerns over associated privacy issues…