This presentation was given at Association for Geographic Information (AGI) 'GeoCommunity '11' Conference on 22-Sep-2011. The AGI is the UK Geospatial Membership Body. "Cloud-Enabling GIS for Conservational Collaboration" Abstract As higher-level GIS capabilities rapidly move to the Web, or ‘the Cloud’ as it is increasingly being called the possibilities for a seamless, integrated GIS collaboration environment become a reality for all. One group that can especially benefit from ever-decreasing set-up, infrastructure and maintenance costs are Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). One such NGO with a GIS strategy to become fully ‘Cloud-Enabled’ is Amigos de Iracambi - a Brazilian non-profit organisation whose mission is to work with the community to make the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in the Atlantic Rainforest more attractive than its destruction.

1. Cloud GIS for Conservation A Case Study: Amigos De Iracambi Minas Gerais Brazil

4. Iracambi research centre