GISCorps volunteers providing assistance to Humanity Road In December 2014, Humanity Road, a US based nonprofit organization, requested the assistance of GISCorps to support their Typhoon Hagupit response activities. Following the recruitment, two GIS professionals Leonard Olyott (Australia) and Keeve Brine…
GISCorps Crowdsource Project Documents Coastal Changes Due To Hurricane Sandy By David Litke, GISCorps volunteer Summary In September 2014, GISCorps received a request from the U.S. Geological Survey for a group of volunteers to take part in a pilot study…
GISCorps supporting NetHope with mapping information and communication needs in West Africa In October, GISCorps was contacted by Crisis Informatics expert Jennifer Chan and began providing initial support for NetHope to support their NetHope Ebola Response Project. By November a team…
Partnering with Stand By Task Force (SBTF) – Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby in Philippines As Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby threatened the Philippines, the Digital Humanitarian Network was activated to assist with response. Stand By Task Force (SBTF) took the lead in organizing volunteers to…
Mapping of Malakal, Nsanje District (Partnered with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team - HOT) Volunteers: Tim Hohn (Project Manager), Heather Milton (GISCorps Project Manager), Jared Pilbeam, Takeo Shibata, Ian Cable, Alison DeGraff, Laxman Sharma, Oula Seitsonen, Snead Prasad, Suthakaran Sundaralingham, Katie Pickett,…
Volunteers assisting the International Rescue Committee in DRC The International Rescue Committee (IRC) requested the assistance of GISCorps volunteers for digitizing the boundaries of health zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Two volunteers from California were recruited for this…
GISCorps Volunteers taught GIS at Kabul Polytechnic University The project was commissioned by Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) in Marietta, GA. SPSU was awarded a grant to establish a GIS program that includes furnishing two GIS labs and training the faculty…
GISCorps volunteer creating web maps for World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) The UN Secretary-General will convene the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in Istanbul in 2016. The goal of this summit is to find new ways to tackle humanitarian needs in…
A Story Map for Young Voices on Climate Change (YVCC) Young Voices on Climate Change (YVCC), a US based non-profit organization requested the assistance of a GISCorps volunteer for developing a Story Map. The Story Map was developed in ArcGIS…
Volunteer customizes a web map for the 1947 Partition Archive Project The 1947 Partition Archive Project, a US based nonprofit organization requested the assistance of a volunteer with expertise in creating a map of their Partition stories. Jason Lampel was…