Strata360’s vision is to provide products and services that will help build a more secure and sustainable future by encouraging a better understanding and appreciation of the worlds cultural and ecological diversity.

Strata360’s mission is to provide the expertise and technology needed to research, design and produce high quality cartographic and interactive media products for our public sector, NGO and non-profit partners worldwide. Strata360 also provides participatory research and consultation services designed to support our project partners in meeting the needs associated with community-based land use, ecological knowledge and cultural heritage mapping and with capacity building related to co-management, sustainable development and geo-spatial and multi-media skills and technology transfer.

Strata360 was established in February 1998
Since that time we have been actively engaged in the development of a number of projects in different parts of the world. As a professional group that has accumulated considerable experience in working with indigenous organizations, we are aware of the need to integrate established community development techniques for collecting and applying information with new technologies for assembling, presenting and delivering this information to targeted end-users. We are confident that the development of materials for Web and CD-Rom based multimedia applications, offers the potential for a much more dynamic presentation of information.

Over the past 10 years, the Strata360 team has worked in Canada, Central America, Asia and Africa to develop information, education and training initiatives for indigenous organizations, government and NGOs. In all of these initiatives, Strata360 draws on our well established experience and expertise to design and carry out projects that focus on issues of environment, ecology, land use and cultural heritage.

The Strata360's research experience had its beginnings in the mid 1960s with archaeological and indigenous knowledge mapping. This focus continued in the early 1970s with the design and implementation of the first large scale land use and occupancy mapping project for the NWT. This work was in turn followed by work on lands and environment issues for the James Bay and Northern Quebec negotiations and implementation of the regimes that resulted from the Agreement.

Looking ahead
Strata360 has produced a variety of content-based multimedia presentations on environment and culture. In our projects and partnerships the emphasis of Strata360 is to provide expertise and experience based on the required modification of well-respected methodologies for the collection, analysis and application of information and for the organization and presentation of this information for use in training and educational programs. From the outset, however, Strata360 has emphasized the importance of moving beyond traditional presentation products through the development and application of new media including CD-ROMs, web sites and geographic information systems.