Word reaches me that Dennis King, one of my favourite commenters, put this blog on the big screen at the ISCRAM 2008 conference. I was supposed to be there this year, but once again wasn’t able to make it. So to anybody visiting this blog from ISCRAM, welcome – I hope you find it somewhat useful, and I promise there’ll be some more substantial posts later this week! I hope the conference goes well – why aren’t any of you liveblogging it?
In the meantime, you might be interested to read a blog post called Mapping Genocide: Google Earth and Darfur – it’s a well-researched, well-written introduction to some of the recent developments in online mapping for human rights. It’s not without problems, though, and so I think that’s what I’ll write about later this week… so you’d better come back, eh?
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“at the end of the day you’re not saving lives.â€
hi Paul,
we sure missed you there!
Dennis was at a humanitarian IM panel on Tuesday morning, together with Alta Haggerty from OCHA, Joe Becker from the US Red Cross, and two people from the world bank Poverty Reduction Group, Samia Amin and Markus Goldman. All gave interesting insights and comments.
At about the time of the panel, news was breaking about the situation in Myanmar… Alta left earlier than planned from the conference to get back to NY and help out with the response.
greetings – bartel