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Join online dialogue on Geo-Mapping for Human Rights

Announcement from Kristin Antin, New Tactics in Human Rights:

Join an on-line dialogue on ‘Geo-Mapping for Human Rights’

October 28 – November 3, 2009

New Tactics is pleased to feature 'Geo-Mapping for Human Rights,’ as the topic of our October featured online dialogue.  Join New Tactics, our co-moderator, Christian Kreutz, and our featured resource practitioners from October 28 – November 3, 2009 in a conversation about the ways in which geographical mapping has been used to share critical information, promote transparency and engage communities. 

With the growing use of satellite imagery and easy-to-use technology, geographical maps are being used more often by human rights organizations.  These maps can help an organization map crises, places of heritage, visualize data, monitor the impact of conflict, uncover critical evidence, and more!  The goal of this dialogue will be to take the stories shared by practitioners with experience using these tools and tactics and draw out lessons to enable other organizations to strategically apply these resources.

Our featured resource practitioners include:

Lars Bromley, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights program at the AAAS, United States

Patrick Meier, of Ushahidi, United States

Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, founder of the Diarna Project, United States

Michael Graham, of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the World Is Witness project, United States

Sandra Sudhoff, Calum Davey, Yann Rebois and Bernard Wright of CartONG, France

Gillo Cutrupi, GreenPeace Community Manager, Italy

http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/geo-mapping-human-rights

Tags: human rights

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Thank you, Jen! I hope to see lots of crisis-mapping practitioners in the dailogue adding their examples, challenges, resources, questions, ideas...etc.

We have two more featured practitioners that have just agreed to participate today:

Mifan Careem, director of Respere Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.
Alagesa Pandian, of Mapunity, India

See you in the dialogue!
Kristin

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