Download Conflicts Management - River Valley Technologies

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Research, communication and
development in a remote
mountain context in Central Asia
Aline Rosset, University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
1. Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan and the UCA
1. Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia
Bishkek
Naryn
2. Research-relevant challenges in Central Asia
Research, communication and outreach challenges:
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Insignificant priority to international community
Non hegemonic languages: diversity, characters, lack of resources/publications,
low abilities to use knowledge available in English
Remoteness and topography
Increasing centre-periphery gradient within countries
Lack of cooperation and information sharing, limited freedom
Not enough funds for research, donor dependency, concurrence
Focus issues of the KMEECS project in Kyrgyzstan: Education and the
environment
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Decreasing quality of education, lack of context-based learning experiences
Increasing environmental challenges, but poor public awareness
Lack of locally relevant environmental data
3. The Kyrgyz Mountains Environmental Education
and Citizen Science project (KMEECS)
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Goal: Pilot the introduction of a Citizen Science-based Environmental
Education curriculum in rural schools of Kyrgyzstan‘s Naryn province.
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Participatory development of resources for teachers (syllabus, toolboxes,
manual) on water quality and phenology as a climate change indicator
Collect local-level environmental data through Citizen Science
Elaborate/adapt simple tools for data management and visualisation
Analysis of the network of stakeholders involved in the project, their roles,
resources and how they are impacted by the project activities and outcomes
4. Communication channels for varying audiences
Local level: Naryn and the pilot schools (in Kyrgyz)
 Teaching resources and tools
 Photo exhibition: children’s perspective
 Locally used social media in Kyrgyz
 Visualization of collected data for every village
 Local capacity development through training of
teachers
National/regional level: Kyrgyzstan and
Central Asia (in Russian and Kyrgyz)
 Presentation of educational resources to
policy makers
 Project report
 Presentation of photo exhibition on
national level
International level and OCSDNet (in English)
 Project blog and publishing on OCSDNet Forum  Social Media in Russian and Kyrgyz
 Experiment with videos, animations or podcasts  Data collected through citizen science will
be freely available on online platforms
for communicating results
 Conference/workshop presentations
 Data collected through citizen science will be
 Training for Central Asian research fellows
freely available on online platforms
on OCSD
 Presentations at conferences and other events
 Use of UCA and CAMP Alatoo communication
channels for a broader reach
5. Best practices: knowledge management in CA
• Local level: eBilim Mobile Digital Library
• National level: Coalition for Open
Education in Kyrgyzstan
• International/regional level: K-Link – Linking,
sharing and managing knowledge on climate
change in Central Asia
Thank you for your attention.
I am looking forward to your comments and ideas to
strengthen scholarly communication in remote contexts!