The Mapmaker Who's Saving Lives In Panama's Pandemic
Geoindigena/Rainforest Foundation When COVID-19 was detected last spring in Panama, 26-year-old cartographer Carlos Doviaza feared for his "brothers" — not his blood relatives but indigenous people like himself. He believed the way he could help them was to do what he does best: making maps. "I thought, why not use my strength to build a platform created by indigenous people for indigenous peoples to show relevant information about the pandemic visually and easily?" Doviaza didn't go down a traditional path to learn his trade. He had to drop out of college where he was studying computer...
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