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Typhoon Pablo: OCHA activates Crowdsourcing Community

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) activated the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) on December 5th to collect all relevant tweets about Typhoon Pablo pos

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Fri, 07/12/2012 - 08:42
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Processed on Dec 7th 2012

International Meeting of Crowdsource Mapping successfully concluded

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On 5 December 2012, UN-SPIDER concluded a three-day international expert meeting on the topic of Crowdsource Mapping for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response.
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Crowdsource Mapping for Disaster Management
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On 5 December 2012, UN-SPIDER concluded a three-day international expert meeting on the topic of Crowdsource Mapping for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response.

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Thu, 06/12/2012 - 17:45
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Processed on Dec 6th 2012

4th Annual CrisisMappers Conference concluded

The 4th International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) took place from 11 to 14 October 2012 in Washington D.C.

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Wed, 17/10/2012 - 17:27
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Processed on Oct 17th 2012

UN-SPIDER Newsletter 2/12: Crowdsource Mapping

Issue Date: 
Tue, 02/10/2012

Crowdsource Mapping aims at an improved disaster management: The idea is to co

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Crowdsource Mapping aims at an improved disaster management: The idea is to collect data from as many on-site sources as possible and translate that real-time data into maps.
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UN-SPIDER Newsletter on Crowdsource Mapping
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Processed on Oct 2nd 2012

USGS reconsiders crowdsource mapping programme

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is examining the restoration of its popular volunteer mapping program, The National Map Corps.

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Wed, 22/08/2012 - 09:11
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Processed on Aug 22nd 2012

4th International Conference of Crisis Mappers - ICCM

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Venue City: 
Washington, DC
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Date: 
11/10/2012 - 14/10/2012
Venue: 
George Washington University: School of Media & Public Affairs
Venue Country: 
United States
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The World Bank
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
George Washington University

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Crisis Mappers
Language of event: 
English

 

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Processed on Aug 14th 2012

Crowdsourcing community responds to Philippine floods

Google's Crisis Response Team launched a resource page for the emergency management of floods in Manila, Philippines.

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Fri, 10/08/2012 - 08:58
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Processed on Aug 10th 2012

Crowdsourcing: Singapore Land Authority offers map-based tools

The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) recently launched “OneMap Crowd Sourcing Tools” to provide organisations with map facility to locate interactive activities and information.

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Mon, 16/07/2012 - 12:15
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Processed on Jul 16th 2012

"Digital Humanitarian Network" established by crowdsource community

MapAction, CrisisMappers and GISCorps are teaming up with the United Nations to provide a better linkage between formal humanitarian organisations and the online technology communities

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Mon, 02/07/2012 - 09:15
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MapAction
Processed on Jul 2nd 2012

HOT launches kickstarter project for Haiti

The Humanitarian Open Street Map (HOT) team launched a kickstarter project to support the development of the first free Haitian Creole Open Street Map Book.

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Thu, 10/05/2012 - 15:56
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Processed on May 10th 2012