News - Colombia
Zika Triple Frontier Education and Prevention Workshop
As part of the second stage of the GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project, the Triple Border Workshop was held in Leticia Amazonas on May 3, with the participation of students, teachers and community leaders from Colombia, Brazil and Peru. This project seeks to raise the level of participation and impact of citizen science through the commitment of thousands of citizens to make observations and collect data on the existence of mosquitoes transmitting diseases such as dengue, zika and chicunguña in their regions in order to help build a global map of the distribution of these. The training focuses on how to use the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper application to identify mosquito larval species and eliminate mosquito habitat.
Colciencias, the Brazilian Space Agency and the US Embassy in Colombia participated in the organization of this event.
type: globe-newsNews origin: Colombia