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These are the Humanitarian Decision Makers

Thu, 2013-09-05 19:05 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

veritythink.com - by Andrej Verity - September 3, 2013

In my June post Who are the Humanitarian Decision Makers, I outlined why I have problems with how easily we use the phrase “for the decision makers” without really knowing who they are. Once you start investigating the problem, you quickly realize how large and diverse the range of decision makers are in humanitarian response.

Now, it is easy to complain but harder to do something. So rather than leaving this problem to fester within the community, a few of us decided to do something.

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40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

Thu, 2013-08-22 13:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

1. Where Google Street View is Available - Map by Google

submitted by Albert Gomez

twistedsifter.com - August 13, 2013

If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that.

Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new.

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Mozilla Ignite Challenge - Real-Time Emergency Response

Tue, 2013-07-23 23:48 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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mozillaignite.org - March 31, 2013

Mozilla Ignite is an open innovation challenge hosted by Mozilla and the National Science Foundation as part of the US Ignite initiative. The goal: imagine and build apps that show the full potential of next-generation networks, in areas that matter -- like healthcare, education, energy, manufacturing and public safety.

Real-Time Emergency Response - What problem are you intending to solve?

Detection, observation, and assessment of situations requiring intervention by emergency responders depends on high-quality "live" data.

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Geofeedia - Pioneering Location-Based Social Media Monitoring

Sun, 2013-07-14 22:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux

geofeedia.com

Location-based streaming, search, monitoring, and analytics.

Create live, location-based social media streams, or “Geofeeds”. Once you create a Geofeed – by simply entering an address or drawing a boundary around a location on a map – you can search, monitor and analyze all social media activity from that location.

http://corp.geofeedia.com/company/how-it-works/

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Global Earthquake Model (GEM)

Sun, 2013-06-30 23:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

globalquakemodel.org

GEM is a global collaborative effort with the aim to provide organisations and people with tools and resources for transparent assessment of earthquake risk anywhere in the world. By pooling data, knowledge and people, GEM acts as an international forum for collaboration and exchange, and leverages the knowledge of leading experts for the benefit of society.

http://www.globalquakemodel.org/

GEM Newsletter - June 2013

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Open Data by Default – The New Mantra of G8 Leaders

Thu, 2013-06-27 17:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

G8 David Cameron thanked NGOs and other organisations for their lobbying on transparency

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ecodesk.com - June 20, 2013

G8 leaders have committed to implementing transparent strategies to report pollution levels and energy consumption through the Open Data Charter, signed by all G8 countries this week.

Environmental protection is one of the key targets cited in the charter that can be achieved through the use of open data. This is arguably the most important climate change-related commitment, as under the environmental umbrella comes natural resource use, extractive industries and conflict minerals, positive governance and budget allocation.

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Video - TIME, GOOGLE AND NASA: Timelapse of the Earth Over the Last 30 Years

Mon, 2013-05-13 13:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

world.time.com - by Jeffrey Kluger

Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention was the one that ought to matter most to us—Earth.

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Crisis maps

Thu, 2013-05-09 22:57 — Maeryn Obley

voices.mckinseyonsociety.com - Patrick Meier

Crisis-mapping technology has emerged in the past five years as a tool to help humanitarian organizations deliver assistance to victims of civil conflicts and natural disasters. Crisis-mapping platforms display eyewitness reports submitted via e-mail, text message, and social media. The reports are then plotted on interactive maps, creating a geospatial record of events in real time.

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UN - World Food Programme - Hunger Map

Sun, 2013-03-31 15:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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The map shows the prevalence of undernourishment in the total population as of 2010 - 2012. The indicator is an estimate of the percentage of the population having access to an amount of energy from food insufficient to maintain a healthy life.

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/downloadmap

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