Knowing the vast, rural area of Tanzania is crucial to providing timely and effective help for girls during Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) “cutting seasons.” In recent years, we have managed to map millions of buildings which can help us determine…
Three GISCorps volunteers, Emmanuel Jolaiya from Nigeria, Sharon Omojah from Kenya, and Katarina Spasenovic from Italy have stepped up to meet the challenge of helping Crowd2Map Tanzania (https://crowd2map.org/) mentor new mappers and working to put Tanzania on the map. Crowd2Map…
My primary goal a year ago was to create a GIS server that can help the Tanzania Development Trust’s local representatives and community mappers in their job in Tanzania. This GIS data server would be a kind of collection point…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has embarked on a new pilot project that integrates crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence (AI) to support polio outbreak response activities in Papua New Guinea. WHO requested the assistance of GISCorps volunteers to support this effort…
Summary report by Guy Maurice The World Health Organization was looking for two GIS professionals to serve as volunteers during the months of December 2017 and January 2018 to contribute to a pilot project in Mogadishu, Somalia. The project's…
The Evolution of Emergency Copernicus Services (E2mC) Project, funded by the European Commission, was conceived to explore the integration of social media data mining, crowd-sourcing, and machine learning to improve the timeliness, accuracy, and precision of spatial data for rapid mapping…
Report by Leslie Zolman I have been a GISCorps volunteer since 2009 and have used my own software to support GISCorps missions over the years. When Esri offered the GIS Service Pledge to GISCorps volunteers I was very excited since…
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…
Mapping of Malakal, South Sudan (a partnership with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) GISCorps partnered with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to map the city of Malakal, South Sudan to provide baseline data for the humanitarian response to the ongoing conflicts between government…
SAR analysis, data mining & GIS mapping of the Central Mediterranean to document the violations of migrants’ rights & deaths at sea Summer 2012 report of GISCorps’s contribution to Forensic Oceanography By: Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths,…