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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. .
UN OCHA Launches 500 Free Humanitarian Symbols
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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. . Get the symbol set UN OCHA .
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GIS Helps Fight World's Leading Cause of Preventable Blindness
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Approximately 110 million people worldwide live in endemic areas of trachoma and require treatment. Maps and spatial technology are helping eliminate this preventable ailment. .
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Esri Supports USAID-Funded Center for Managing Foreign Assistance Data
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Esri is providing the software, data, online services, training, and professional services support to the AidData Center for Development Policy. Read the in FutureGov. |
The World Bank Looks at the Power of Mapping and the Crowd
Geoenabling Development Assistance Data
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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). .
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Improving Service Delivery and Collaboration in South Africa
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The Frances Baard Municipality District uses the ArcGIS platform to make data available to all municipalities through a web portal. .
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World Resources Institute Launches Aqueduct
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A new, interactive mapping tool from the World Resources Institute provides detailed information on the state of the global water supply. .
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Introducing Arab Spatial: An Online, Interactive Atlas of the Arab World
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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. .
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Get Up and Running with ArcGIS Online for Organizations
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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.
about the many features available to you.
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