| ESSC provides technical assistance to the Philippine Cave Bat Workshop, 24 to 28 June 2011 |
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| Thursday, 20 January 2011 | |
 ESSC is providing technical assistance to the forthcoming Philippine Cave Bat workshop to be held in Samal Island in Davao del Norte, specifically on the use of free and open source software (FOSS) tools in planning, monitoring, and assessment activities.
Bat Conservation International (BCI), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Philippine Speleological Society are organizing and facilitating the workshop that will gather together those who know most about caves (DENR field staff, cavers, bat biologists) and share information on the occurrence and status of cave bats in the country.
ESSC is tasked to develop relevant maps that integrate the information resulting from workshop activities, including map templates and the creation of a webmapping interface to collect, aggregate, and present cave bat information in the Philippines. Mr Emmanuel Sambale, geomatics associate at ESSC, is responsible for developing the webmapping application based on Ushahidi (a free and open source webmapping framework) and crowdmap (a cloud-based free service based on Ushahidi). BCI's program in the Philippines is to initiate a self-sustaining bat research, education and conservation program specifically for threatened and largely neglected cave-bat habitats. To read more about BCI's Philippine initiative, please visit their website .
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