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cdc.gov - January 14, 2015
One of the difficulties faced by teams responding to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is identifying individuals and communities residing in remote areas. Existing maps of these regions either do not exist or are inadequate or outdated. This means that basic data like location of houses, buildings, villages, and roads are not easily accessible, and case finding and contact tracing can be extremely difficult.
To help aid the outbreak response effort, volunteers from around the world are using an open-source online mapping platform called OpenStreetMap (OSM) to create detailed maps and map data of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and parts of Mali.
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Hi Kathy
Elizabeth R Griffin Foundation has just signed agreements with MTN to provide 100 portable backpack VSAT units. These are the same VSATs that we have used in West Africa. Also signed an agreement with iFormBuilder for 500 additional licenses. We used iFormBuilder in Nigeria.
The OpenStreetMap community are fantastic to work with. They have been involved in the Resilience programs that I have worked on with the World Bank.
Kind Regards
Gavin Macgregor-Skinner
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> On Jan 18, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Kathy Gilbeaux via admin <admin@m.resiliencesystem.org> wrote:
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> cdc.gov - January 14, 2015
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> One of the difficulties faced by teams responding to the current Ebola
> outbreak in West Africa is identifying individuals and communities residing
> in remote areas. Existing maps of these regions either do not exist or are
> inadequate or outdated. This means that basic data like location of houses,
> buildings, villages, and roads are not easily accessible, and case finding
> and contact tracing can be extremely difficult.
>
> To help aid the outbreak response effort, volunteers from around the world
> are using an open-source online mapping platform called OpenStreetMap (OSM)
> to create detailed maps and map data of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and
> parts of Mali.
>
> (READ COMPLETE ARTICLE) [1]
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> [1] http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2015/01/mapping-for-ebola-a-collaborative-effort/
Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner