Balasubramanian D1., Pierre Grard1, Thomas Le Bourgeois2 , Ramesh B.R1.,
Pascal Marnotte2, Azaad Gaungoo3, Alain Paul Andrianaivo4, Jean Augustin
Randriamampianina4, Ibrahim Yahaya5, Sathish M1, Karthik Yeruva1
1.IFP,Pondicherry, India, balu.d@ifpindia.org,
pierre.grard@ifpindia.org, ramesh.br@ifpindia.org, sathish.m@ifpindia.org, karthik.yeruva@ifpindia.org
2.CIRAD, Montpellier, France, thomas.le_bourgeois@cirad.fr, pascal.marnotte@cirad.fr
3.MCIA/MSIRI, Réduit, Mauritius, azaad.gaungoo@msiri.mu
4.FOFIFA, Antananarivo, Madagascar, augustin_rdrm@yahoo.fr, ambohibe@yahoo.fr
5.CNDRS, Moroni, Grande Comore, yahayaim@yahoo.fr
Information on weeds, covering species description, biology, ecology, distribution and control is essential for understanding weed growth and optimizing their management.
WIKWIO is focused on the Western Indian Ocean region to develop species information systems on weeds of food and cash cropping systems.
WIKWIO aims to assimilate weed knowledge through its participatory portal to build and strengthen a Science and Technology network of stakeholders such as scientists, extension officers, teachers, students and farmers in the African region.
Species Identification
Acknowledgements
This project is funded by the European Union (ACP Secretariat -Science and Technology Programme II) through the tender of the 2012 10th European Development Fund.
The project coordinators would like to thank all the partners and WIKWIO community members.
Participatory Portal
http://portal.wikwio.org
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Species Pages: 348 weed species; conforms to Species
Profile Model
• Citizen Science: Reporting of observations with media, date
and location; over 2900 observations
• Maps: Web GIS module for
spatial data; WFS; interacts with species pages and observations
• Documents: Share reports and papers; enabled with species
name parser
• Groups: Working groups on specific topics or region
• Interoperable with other initiatives through DWC archive
www.wikwio.org
projectwikwio@gmail.com
Species Pages
Citizen Science/Observations
Maps
Documents
Groups
www.wikwio.org/idao/
• Community
• Participation
• Capacities Mobile Apps
Wikwio Citizen Science app helps
upload weed observations to the Wikwio portal, with an image, date and location.
Offers off-line functionality and interaction with community
• Taxonomy capacity building tool
• Graphic driven, avoids jargon
• Permits missing information
• Tolerates observational errors
• Matches species without elimination
Wikwio IDAO app helps identify around 345 weed species from Western Indian Ocean and Southern African region
Biodiversity Informatics platform https://github.com/strandls/biodiv
All data on the portal is covered by Creative Commons license
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