July 28, 2010
Recently read about the Aquaya Institute, which does research into water purification, and specifically focuses on the technology, the delivery, and measuring the results. They also are developing their "Water Business Kit" which can help entrepreneurs and small-businesses provide safe water to customers in areas where there is little infrastructure to purify water.
We added them to our Water Infrastructure page -...
July 26, 2010
Last week TIDES exhibited at the Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF) at the Washington Convention Center in DC. We had a great time at the show and continued to spread the word about the TIDES project. TIDES helped AIDF organize the Experiential Zone, an interactive area which allowed visitors to experience elements of relief and development. Inside the Experiential Zone, Mark Prutsalis, President & CEO of Sahana Software Foundation, talked about crisismapping and shared...
- and I don't like it." So said an oysterman to me today.
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:...
July 25, 2010
- Bangladesh is a developing country of the South-East Asia. It is suffering froma lot of problems starting from the political turbulances to natural disasters and from a vulnerable economy to a corruption-prone bureaucracy. It is one of the most densely populated area of the world. The population of this country is more than 150 million and the literacy rate is below 50%. Most of those literate people know little beyond how write and read their own names. The electrical power supply is not yet...
- http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
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If only if this were Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, we could enjoy a quiet couple of uneventful hours and the oil would never come. The entire Gulf Coast is bracing for the oil, and the scene in Venice, Louisiana, is surreal. Waiting, waiting. Our Oil Spill Crisis Map Team was down there today, and this was the scene:
International / national press...
July 24, 2010
- Cross posted on iRevolution
It was Larry Brilliant's TED talk over four years ago that first got me hooked. He spoke about the technology used by the Global Public Health Information Network (GPHIN) which had detected the outbreak of SARS months before the WHO by crawling...
July 23, 2010
- Hello Everyone,
My name is Anne Rolfes, and I am new to Crisis Mappers though by this afternoon we hope to have a Gulf Coast Oil Spill Crisis Map set up.
We need help, advice, etc. Tulane students have helped us to get the site up and running, but our tech contact is leaving for Thailand. We would love the benefit of your experience. This is NOT our final address, but to see what we've got, check us out - http://ushahidi.... - Glancing through bios, I noticed that a good chunk of the members here are software and technology folk. I also sadly noticed there aren't a whole lot of humanitarian practitioners in the group, at least on the international side. I’m a responder and I apologize for the less than stellar participation here of folks like me.
Some of us have gotten together to form Humanitarian Accoord--an initiative to develop technology to improve what perhaps may be the most challenging elements of...
July 22, 2010
- Here is an ENVISAT ASAR satellite imagery of the Louisiana Oil Spill.
The image has been acquired today 29 April at 03:53 UTC
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July 21, 2010
- An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008.
OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007
This animation was produced by itoworld.com. The music is 'Open Electro' by Vincent Girès.
ITO World provide free online support software for OpenStreetMap and also provide online mapping services to organisations and individuals.
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