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Giacomo Rambaldi, senior programme coordinator at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in Wageningen, Netherlands, has 27 years of professional experience in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean. He holds a degree in agricultural sciences from the State University of Milan, Italy, and is currently engaged in a PhD with the Communication and Innovation Studies Group, Communication Sciences, Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Giacomo has been involved in participatory mapping since the late 80’s. In August 2000 he launched Participatory Avenues www.iapad.org, a web site dedicated to sharing knowledge on community mapping and collaborative spatial information management and in 2004 the Open Forum for Participatory Geographic Information technologies and Systems www.PPgis.Net
Robert Chambers has a background in biology, history and public administration. Current concerns and interests include professionalism, power, the personal dimension in development, participatory methodologies, teaching and learning with large numbers, agriculture and science, seasonality, and community-led sanitation. He is with the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. His most recent book is entitled 'Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward (Research Summary)' RSPP1, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (2009)
Mike McCall is Associate Professor in International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), an international postgraduate training institution in Enschede, Netherlands, and Senior Researcher in CIGA, UNAM in Morelia, Mexico. A social geographer by training and inclination who has worked in Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia and Mexico, his primary research areas are in community mapping and PGIS activities – on risks and vulnerability, mapping boundaries, natural resources, forest carbon, cultural values, urban neighbourhoods, payment for environmental services, etc. He taught for 8 years at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and has taught courses on PGIS and participatory mapping in Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Holland, etc. He has published on PGIS, on disaster risk management, and community-based natural resource management.
Jefferson Fox is the Coordinator of Environmental Studies and a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. He received his Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He studies land-use and land-cover change in Asia and the possible cumulative impact of these changes on the region and the global environment. Dr. Fox has co-edited several books, most recently, People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS (Kluwer Academic Press, 2003). His ongoing research includes 'Understanding dynamic resource management systems and land cover transitions in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia' funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and 'The expansion of rubber and its implications for water and carbon dynamics in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia" funded by NASA. He has worked in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
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