Join an on-line dialogue on ‘Geo-Mapping for Human Rights’

Join an on-line dialogue on ‘Geo-Mapping for Human Rights’

October 28 – November 3, 2009

New Tactics is pleased to feature 'Geo-Mapping for Human Rights,’ as the topic of our October featured online dialogue.  Join New Tactics, our co-moderator, Christian Kreutz, and our featured resource practitioners from October 28 – November 3, 2009 in a conversation about the ways in which geographical mapping has been used to share critical information, promote transparency and engage communities. 

With the growing use of satellite imagery and easy-to-use technology, geographical maps are being used more often by human rights organizations.  These maps can help an organization map crises, places of heritage, visualize data, monitor the impact of conflict, uncover critical evidence, and more!  The goal of this dialogue will be to take the stories shared by practitioners with experience using these tools and tactics and draw out lessons to enable other organizations to strategically apply these resources.

Our featured resource practitioners include:

• Lars Bromley, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights program at the AAAS, United States
• Patrick Meier, of Ushahidi, United States
• Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, founder of the Diarna Project, United States
• Michael Graham, of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the World Is Witness project, United States
• Sandra Sudhoff, Calum Davey, Yann Rebois and Bernard Wright of CartONG, France
• Gillo Cutrupi, GreenPeace Community Manager, Italy