The Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative is a non-profit organization formed in 2015 dedicated to advancing the issue of environmental justice in Virginia. VEJC stands in support of the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color,…
Growing the Table (GTT) is a philanthropic initiative managed and executed by the Office of Kat Taylor (OKT), and fiscally sponsored and administered by the Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation (TKREF). With roughly 37% of California farmers being women and 20%…
Direct Relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies – without regard to politics, religion, or…
Global MapAid (GMA) is a US & UK based non-profit organization with a passion and vision to create maps for solving development problems. One current project involves the creation of an Artificial Intelligence system to help determine where to put…
The Crowd2map Project aims to help prevent female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania by mapping the locations of rural villages and settlements where this commonly occurs. Rescue teams often get notified about FGM taking place at night with only hours…
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…
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…