Aoos, the shared river
Aoos Valley is located in the north-western part of Greece, close to the Northeast borderline with Albania. It is the place where the mainspring of the river, that comes from the core of Pindus National Park, after passing through Vikos-Aoos Canyon, meets its tributary rivers of Sarantaporos, Voidomatis and others, and all together cross the borders to Albania, continuing until the Adriatic Sea.
About the project
What we propose is the mapping of the natural, social, cultural and productive resources of the area, analysis of the data gathered during the mapping and their visualization using Business Intelligence tools. With this digital platform we are going to give the ability to citizens, local authorities and stakeholders, but also to visitors, to virtually combine resources of the area and propose their own evidence-based development actions and policies.
Furthermore, the database is going to be participatory and always open to new inputs, collected by questionnaires, free text, business registrations, comments for the area etc.
The tool is going to function both as an evidenced based decision-making tool, but also is going to be promoted as a full interactive tourist guide for the area, where locals can organize, visualize and offer a touristic experience and tourists can plan their tour in the area.
Educative seminars will be implemented for locals, young farmers, scientists and professionals of tourism, on how to combine and make good use of the history, culture, local production of the area, to develop and promote cultural tourism activities.
In addition, we are going to implement open workshops related to local cultures, in order to strengthen local identities and communities of practices by promoting local resources from a comprehensive and complex point of view. Workshops on traditional building and open source mild technological solutions will make good use of the traditional ecological knowledge, practices and infrastructures, establishing a connection between the past and the future of the area.
Responsible partner:
Cross-border pilot connected to pilot
Communities involved
Associated partners
Boulouki (multidisciplinary collective with expertise in traditional building techniques)
P2P Lab (expertise in Commons Based Peer Production)
Ecomuseum of Zagori
Municipality of Konitsa.
Innovations
Use of Business Intelligence tools
for decision making and cultural policy design
Participatory digital tools
for cultural tourism development
Introduction of the Commons Based Peer Production
to the local societies as a way to raise the mountainous isolation and a way to make good use of their cultural resources.
Use of GIS
to map cultural resources and routes
Use of mild technology
to evolve sustainable cultural infrastructures, considering SDG
