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UN Establishes a Committee on Global Geospatial Information

by Matt Ball on July 28, 2011

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to establish a committee on global geospatial information management in order to enhance international dialogue and cooperation on spatial data infrastructures. The UN recognizes the benefits of geospatial information for application to humanitarian, peace and security, environmental and development challenges as well as to responses to [...]

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Code for America Hopes to Spur Local Government Toward Platform Thinking

by Matt Ball on November 18, 2010

Code for America is a non-profit organization that draws on the models of Teach for America and the Peace Corps to recruit and place top Web development talent to aid government technology initiatives. The effort to place coders, developers, writers and other talented Web professionals in one-year internships aims to spur government to adopt platform-style [...]

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Crisis Camps Kick Off for Chile Earthquake Response

by Matt Ball on March 6, 2010

After the successful and ongoing largely-volunteer mapping efforts to respond to the Haiti earthquake, it’s heartening to see that there’s momentum for this approach in response to the massive earthquake that struck Chile. There are Crisis Camps this weekend and stretching into the future for both Haiti and Chile that are viewable at this page [...]

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