The goal of this project is to create a communication model that facilitates the return of scientific results to communities participating in field research and collections, focusing on Fabio Brito-Santos’ research on pathogenic fungi in the Upper Rio Negro, Amazonas. The project will develop a scientific communication strategy for urbanized indigenous peoples in hard-to-reach areas, using the fungal disease “cryptococcosis” as an initial model due to its neglected impact on human health. The project seeks to answer how to effectively return this scientific information to the community, respecting traditional knowledge and identifying the most effective communication tools to socialize science in this context, with the help of journalism adapted for greater reach outside major urban centres.

“Laboratório de Geojornalismo” (Geojournalism Laboratory) is an initiative of the InfoAmazonia Association that will encourage journalists to use geoscience data – in formats accessible to the general public. The objective is to spread the language of data visualization in interactive maps and graphs. The laboratory promoted a training program for reporters and editors from the InfoAmazonia collaborator network in alliance with researchers from federal universities. After creating these foundations, journalists and scientists produced visualizations and interactive maps in 10 special reports to be published on the InfoAmazonia website.

Read the first report here.