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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: a) Global MapAid and b) Wikinova and the University of Fortaleza from Brazil and was launched in March 2009 with an article in New Scientist magazine. To view article, click here.

The focus is to map poverty crises hot spots by capturing data about orphanage programs, drought, disease, food, employment, education and training and in future a whole range of other vital humanitarian and environmental considerations. But to begin with we are focusing on Zimbabwe. Visit: www.wikimapaid.org.

Wikinova and the University of Fortaleza have previously created the excellent site WikiCrimes. The site runs BEST on Firefox browser, please download from www.firefox.com this is easy and fast.

Please Note: The site is in the ‘beta trial version’ so there may be some glitches. Also the site does not yet have all the humanitarian symbols we should like (we call them ‘Markers’). However, when you get to the site, you may Contact Us and send suggestions and even create potential Markers and we will consider all the ideas in good faith.