Conversational assistant
Live in Arraial do Cabo as Atcheza. Answers on coastal regulation and local knowledge, via WhatsApp and web chat, with cited sources.
Infrastructure for coastal data. A roadmap for
technical evolution. Stories from the frontline.
Atcheza is our first deployment, built in continuous partnership with the artisanal fishers of Arraial do Cabo, Brazil. It answers questions on coastal regulation and local expertise, always citing its sources, in the Portuguese spoken on this coast. It works by voice and text on WhatsApp, with a public web version.
Evolving from an open Q&A assistant into
a community-controlled data system.
Live in Arraial do Cabo as Atcheza. Answers on coastal regulation and local knowledge, via WhatsApp and web chat, with cited sources.
Evolving into a two-way data exchange. Communities can submit field observations with explicit consent, accessible offline via SMS.
Communities govern their own archives, with data held in community-controlled, decentralized infrastructure.
scales
the information.
anchors
the meaning.
Codirected by Francielly Monteiro and Lucas Silva Pereira, Roots and Algorithms documents the people, territories and practices of frontline communities. From artisanal fishing and mangrove restoration to urban resilience and women-led cooperatives, communities tell their own stories in first person. The record belongs to those who speak.
