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Awana Digital

Awana Digital, formerly Digital Democracy, builds mapping tools with Indigenous and frontline partners. CoMapeo can help community organizations collect and manage territorial observations without commissioning a mapping system from scratch.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 58–68/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: CoMapeo and accompanying co-design can give community organizations reusable territorial-monitoring infrastructure while respecting separately governed sensitive knowledge and data.

Open-source evidence · license checked

  • CoMapeo Mobile — GNU GPL v3 license file. Organization’s role: maintainer.
    Awana Digital is identified by the product site as CoMapeo’s builder with Indigenous partners; the repository retains the digidem namespace. GPL v3 covers this mobile codebase, not territorial observations, traditional knowledge, other tools, Mapbox terms or metrics/hosting services. License-file snapshot: f288702d2fa16d3cdf0035b15a9fcbc552cd88e7.

License checked 2026-10-28. This is not a security audit, proof of current support or effectiveness, or a promise of free hosting. A sponsor or steward is not necessarily the sole developer. Unchecked profiles are not evidence of closed code. No extra score points are added.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Coordination · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

Community-led evidence gathering and locally adaptable tools partially connect to coordination and access to building/controlling infrastructure. The mapping does not validate territorial outcomes or community decision rights.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-28. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Co-develop community-controlled mapping and territorial monitoring tools

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Locally usable monitoring infrastructure can change who controls evidence about territories and rights, but producing a map does not itself change land tenure or enforcement.

Institutional reach

2 / 4

The documented approach works through particular community partnerships; project and hectare figures were not independently validated as institutional change or attributable reach.

Durability

2 / 4

Community-held observations and reusable software may persist, while devices, safety practices, continued maintenance and local institutional support remain constraints.

Scalability

3 / 4

Reusable software can spread across groups, but local language, co-design, training, sensitive-data protection and territorial context require substantial accompanying work.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: project activity and stated funding needs do not establish a current marginal funding gap, delivery capacity or what additional unrestricted donations would change.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: participatory design and community-oriented governance do not by themselves establish affected people’s binding authority over budgets, priorities, deployment or withdrawal.

Evidence and selection

Primary-source mechanism and identity documentation; no independent impact validation in this review

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

For a community-led territorial monitoring project using CoMapeo, can partners retain and selectively share usable evidence under their own rules after outside support ends, with independently documented protective action and no increase in exposure risk?

Review confidence: Low–medium for the documented mechanism; low for causal effectiveness and donation comparisons. Awana Digital’s nonprofit community-technology role, with CoMapeo Mobile as the named license-inspected example; not a separate Digital Democracy entity, every related repository or all claimed territorial outcomes.

What remains uncertain

One organization is counted: Awana Digital, formerly Digital Democracy, not separate charities for its old name, CoMapeo and Terrastories. The official July 22, 2024 rename announcement and current nonprofit pages are linked; the dated IRS record names DTWO LTD at EIN 26-3761772, cross-referenced to the Awana dba by Charity Navigator without adopting its rating. This is not a current tax-eligibility audit or the unrelated awana.org religious organization. CoMapeo Mobile’s inspected repository is GNU GPL v3, not an assumed MIT license; its README identifies Mapbox and metrics/Sentry integration requirements. Code permissions do not authorize publishing Indigenous knowledge, locations, photos or audio. Co-design claims do not independently establish binding community control, operational security, land protection or a safe deployment.

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Axis review: 2026-10-28 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage