NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. education in Africa? , refugee resettlement in sub Saharan Africa?, In our view these ?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. Third Place: $10,000. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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