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Humanitarian Aid

CCAPS and Sustainability in Africa

The Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program at the University of Texas, Austin, Strauss Center implemented Esri technology to understand how to best manage complex emergencies in light of drought, crop shortages, and changing weather that could result from climate change. Read the article.

UN OCHA Launches 500 Free Humanitarian Symbols

Looking for good humanitarian symbols? The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is providing a free set of 500 map symbols that help aid workers present complex crisis information more effectively. Read more. Get the symbol set UN OCHA released.

GIS Helps Fight World's Leading Cause of Preventable Blindness

Approximately 110 million people worldwide live in endemic areas of trachoma and require treatment. Maps and spatial technology are helping eliminate this preventable ailment. Read more.

Sustainable Development

Esri Supports USAID-Funded Center for Managing Foreign Assistance Data

Esri is providing the software, data, online services, training, and professional services support to the AidData Center for Development Policy. Read the article in FutureGov.

The World Bank Looks at the Power of Mapping and the Crowd

In November 2012, the OpenGov Hub and the World Bank Institute (WBI) hosted a Social Infrastructure Mapping event that was attended by more than 50 mappers from different institutions including Development Gateway, Ushahidi, Esri, World Bank, Wilson Center, Blue Raster, Red Cross, and Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). Read more.

Geoenabling Development Assistance Data

In just 16 hours, a crowd of volunteers geocoded more than 7,000 records for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that showed where credit was made available to entrepreneurs around the world through loan guarantees extended by USAID's Development Credit Authority (DCA). Learn more.

Improving Service Delivery and Collaboration in South Africa

The Frances Baard Municipality District uses the ArcGIS platform to make data available to all municipalities through a web portal. Read the article.

World Resources Institute Launches Aqueduct

A new, interactive mapping tool from the World Resources Institute provides detailed information on the state of the global water supply. Read the article.

Introducing Arab Spatial: An Online, Interactive Atlas of the Arab World

IFRPI's MENA team and Esri partner spatialDev recently launched an online information storehouse that aggregates food security and development information from the region's governments as well as international institutions. Read more at IFRPI's blog.

Technology

Get Up and Running with ArcGIS Online for Organizations

The release of ArcGIS 10.1 is pivotal -- it integrates cloud platform technologies to support not only the GIS professionals in your organization but also non-GIS users who will be able to use applications and maps to support their work on any device. Learn more about the many features available to you.