About the project
WAMM is an open source, GIS, web application that allows journalists and civil society to analyse and investigate West Africa's mining industries as a whole, and not on a country by country basis. The project proposed to compile cross national data of all mining licences with geographic data concerning sensitive ecosystems and inhabited areas in the West African region, with a potential for european researchers and journalists alike to browse into vizualised data other EU mining operators active in the West African region. This allowed users to search, filter and export their findings and efficiently analyse: Conflicts between mining and environmentally sensitive or inhabited areas. Licence ownership, over time and across the West African Region. Filter mining activity by region, mineral, owner/company, time/date, etc. The tool makes the cross regional mining sector and its actors more transparent and allows users to flag potentially harmful or illegitimate mining activity.
