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Dec 18th 2009 Friends Over the past few months I have been talking from time to time with Archbishop Desmond Tutu about our various plans, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Sensing that he was more than just casually interested in GMA, I popped the question a few days ago, “Would you like to be a Patron ?” And with his usual [...] Global MapAid and MapAction Global MapAid is an international mapping NGO with a mission to ‘put the poor on the map, their needs and solutions’. These maps help to encourage local and international leadership to better target humanitarian aid, on the basis of improved and easy to understand knowledge. The final objective outcome is to enable [...]
The art of humanitarian mapping was started in 1898 during the reign of Queen Victoria, in London. Charles Booth, a rich capitalist with a social mind, created a poverty map, which showed the social condition of every London street. A portion of Booths map can be found by [...] WikiMapAid WikiMapAid is a website allowing anyone, anywhere, to start adding humanitarian data to a global map, thus ‘the wisdom of crowds’ will be able to build a huge humanitarian map, giving credence to the idea that ’separate we are blind, but together we shall see.’ WikiMapAid represents an Informal Equal Collaboration between two groups: [...] |
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