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…
Direct Relief requested a GISCorps volunteer to help with data manipulation and automation to support their Global Midwives' Hub initiative, an online ESRI ArcGIS HUB being built in collaboration with the International Confederation of Midwives. Direct Relief is a humanitarian…
Growing the Table is a collaboration of multiple nonprofit partners including the Office of Kat Taylor, the Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation, the CA Department of Food and Agriculture, and the CA Association of Food Banks, working to make sure that…
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…
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…