Tufts students last semester successfully used crisis mapping to aid rescue and relief efforts in the wake of the Haiti earthquake in January. This semester, crisis mapping makes its return to the ...

Patrick Meier, a leader in crisis mapping and digital humanitarianism, now focuses on the use of robotics for humanitarian purposes. Meier used Ushahidi, a free and open-source mapping technology, to ...

REDLANDS, Calif., Oct. 6, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Esri today announced a partnership with Ushahidi that will improve the collection and use of crowd-sourced information during large-scale emergencies ...

Patrick Meier pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, compiling information to create a real time map of damage. Now he's focusing on humanitarian uses of drones. When ...

If your students don’t understand the journey of a refugee today, they will after experiencing the “Mapping a Crisis” lesson. There are more displaced people today than any time since World War II. No ...

I picked up a link to a PowerPoint Introducing Crisis Mapping: An interdisciplinary new field from a Twitter posting. What I like about it is that it contains several elements. This includes the "why?

Daniel Stauffacher is former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations and Co-Founder and Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation. How do we respond? How do we know when to respond? Two fundamental ...

New and larger jurisdictions have begun to join the Opioid Mapping Initiative, a coordinated effort to help local government agencies share insights and use data to visualize the story of the nation’s ...