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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Making (and Mapping) An Impact Where It's Needed Most - Humaninet.

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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is one of the first reports using “Personal Health Data” in aggregate, using data points around sleep tracking to look at a natural disaster. As Jacob Harold mused on Twitter, “In such a moment of something so powerful and scary as an earthquake, technology can only observe.” How long will this data be stored?

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Making (and Mapping) An Impact Where It's Needed Most - Humaninet.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 2) Crowd Creation.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! VisionLink brings particular expertise to the sectors of 2-1-1, information & referral, disaster relief, elder care, education and workforce development, homeless management, and volunteer and donation coordination.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! VisionLink brings particular expertise to the sectors of 2-1-1, information & referral, disaster relief, elder care, education and workforce development, homeless management, and volunteer and donation coordination.

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