The Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts project (771056-LICCI-ERC-2017-COG) explores the potential of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) to contribute to climate research, but only tangentially addresses the marginalized position faced by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) to bring their knowledge and perspectives to climate change research and policy. To bring IPLC knowledge and perspectives to climate change research and policy, this project engaged with IPLC on the co-design of a digital Indigenous Climate Change Impacts Observation Network (ICCION). Operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICCION project first conducted a series of virtual Feedback Sessions with twelve international NGO experts, scholars and Indigenous representatives. Sessions addressed issues of digital literacy, access to technology, data collection methods in community-based monitoring, data ownership and usage per Indigenous data sovereignty principles, platform feature preferences and design, and applicability of the platform for policy relevance. Per results and recommendations from the Feedback Sessions, the project then partnered with three Indigenous and civil society organisations based in Vietnam, Nepal and Thailand with which it co-designed and facilitated three additional physical workshops with a total of 83 community participants. Results have been integrated into an extended version of the OpenTEK platform, referred to as Oblo, in which each partner organization has its own domain address, also available in their national language. Beta versions of the each platform were released privately with each organisation in April 2022 and public updates can be found at
https://licci.eu/liccion/oblo/(opens in new window). Platforms will allow each organisation and community to gather a set of baseline data on local climate change phenomena including impacts on livelihoods, risk and adaptation methods, traditional knowledge applicability and the role of women, which has the potential to be used for local planning and upscaled for regional policy making. Project process and results via various events including at the UNFCCC COP26, UNFCCC Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform, the Research Data Alliance, and the Geo Indigenous Summit. More information can be found at
https://licci.eu/liccion/(opens in new window)
