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GeOnG is known to be the biggest independent humanitarian data forum in Europe, with the participation on average of more than 70 organizations and 140 participants. In the last 10 years, it has become a major event on issues related to mapping, mobile technology, information management and, more generally, on the use of new technologies in the humanitarian and development sectors. For its 6th edition, the GeOnG needs you!
CartONG is looking for sponsors to help organize the 2018 GeOnG Conference. If you would like to associate your company with international solidarity and the humanitarian and development sector at large, help us find innovative answers for tomorrow’s challenges and get involved in addressing current and future stakes, as well as promote your solutions to humanitarian actors, please get in contact. Please note that only organizations sponsoring the GeOnG are allowed to promote their tools and services during the event.
What’s in it for you as a sponsor to the 2018 GeOnG Forum?
Support a unique eventIn order to adapt to everyone’s needs, we propose different sponsorship packages ranging from a straightforward promotional “Silver package” to an all-inclusive “Diamond package” which brings different advantages and privileges. Find out more about our different packages here. CartONG is open to personalized sponsorship initiatives.
They already support the 2018 GeOnG!
Diamond Sponsor
We are very proud to announce our diamond partnership with Agence française de développement (AFD) for the 2018 GeOnG Forum. We are especially pleased since it is the very first participation of AFD as GeOnG sponsor and we would like to thank them for their support and contribution to spreading innovation in the humanitarian & development sector.
The Agence Française de Développement (French Development Agency) is France’s inclusive public development bank. AFD commits financing and technical assistance to projects that genuinely improve everyday life, both in developing and emerging countries and in the French overseas territories. In keeping with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), AFD works in many sectors – among others: energy, healthcare, biodiversity, water, digital technology, professional training – to assist with transitions towards a safer, more equitable, and more sustainable world. Through a network of 85 field offices, AFD currently finances, monitors and assists more than 3,600 development projects in 110 countries.
Platinum Sponsors
We are delighted to welcome Esri - our historical GeOnG partner - once again for the 2018 edition of the GeOnG. Esri has supported the GeOnG since the first edition in 2008. We are very thankful for their support and for bringing their experience and solutions to the conference.
Esri® applies The Science of Where to unlock data’s full potential in every organization. We continue to pioneer real-world problem solving using geographic information systems (GIS). Our mapping and analytics connect everyone, everywhere through a common visual language that inspires positive change in industry and society. Using this powerful platform to reveal deeper insights in their data, Esri users are creating the maps that run the world.
After the 2014 edition of GeOnG, we are delighted to welcome Novel-T again as a partner in 2018 and we thank them for bringing their state-of-the-art expertise in IT and experience in innovating for the humanitarian sector to the conference.
Novel-T is a company founded in 2012 by 3 co-founders who worked for over 10 years in the ICT department of the World Health Organization headquarters. During that period, they assisted most of the technical departments in building various information systems and platforms. Build from this experience, today Novel-T has grown to become a partner of choice for the delivery of quality services and innovative solutions to the key global and national actors in the public health and humanitarian domains worldwide.
Gold Sponsor
Gnucoop Soc. Coop. is an Italian IT company specialized in software, web, mobile and application development, database and systems administration. We believe that free software provides economic and technical advantages, focusing on its implementation in developing countries and vulnerable contexts. Our team is composed of software engineers and experts software analysis and development. Gnucoop's expertise, passion, skills and dedication to its customers help to create highly customized platforms, matching the latest technology with the best user experience.
Silver Sponsors
Aptivate is a not-for-profit IT consultancy with over 14 years experience of software development for the humanitarian relief and international development sectors. Our work is for low-income countries, working with international agencies, in-country organisations and local communities, employing participatory agile methodologies to help them use technology to improve people's lives.
Employing Open Source specialists, Camptocamp is an innovative company working in the integration of software used to present geospatial data, completely manage companies and manage IT servers. In order to be fully adapted to your needs, Camptocamp builds tailor-made solutions using the best Open Source technologies since 2001. A large range of services is offered by its three departments: advice, research and development, creation and implementation of projects, software support and training.
The CYBIS project (Cyber & International Security) - University Grenoble Alpes aims to make available to the general public, professionals and researchers, indicators to analyze current and recent conflicts (in a broad sense including cybersecurity, terrorism and armed conflicts) and their causes, including political (violation of civil rights...) and socio-economic factors, by producing databases, an interactive website (spatio-temporal, quantitative and qualitative data), open source software and publications.
Dharma.ai enables global organizations to efficiently and immediately maximize impact. With our patented data ingestion, online collaboration, and offline capabilities, Dharma allows users to rapidly design programs to collect data, anywhere, anytime and quickly make informed decisions.
Founded in 2003 by personnel with considerable experience in the space sector, in particular sensor geometry and image processing, the company has grown rapidly and steadily over the past 10 years to its present size of 160. The company’s core business is image processing for Earth Observation, with high-resolution sensors. From this initial space high-resolution image processing competence of Magellium, various diversification have taken place into the digital cartography world, geomatics, similar image physics and into vision for robotics.
mangologic is a platform for creating and deploying mobile-based systems without programming which was developed by Things Prime. It is versatile, scalable and maintainable. It is excellent for data collection tasks, but offers much more besides. MSF and others are exploiting the way mangologic makes it possible to define complex decision logic to provide interactive applications which improve the standard of healthcare. D-tree International are others are exploiting the data sharing capabilities of the software to implement systems which co-ordinate the work of community health workers. mangologic is not tied to healthcare applications, but is entirely generic and can be used in other domains to equal effect.
Mapbox is a mapping platform for mobile and web applications. We provide building blocks to add location features like maps, search, and navigation into any experience you create. We’re changing the way people move around cities and explore our world. Whether you’re exploring a city with Lonely Planet or sharing with friends on Snapchat — location is essential to every one of these apps, and they’re powered by Mapbox. Mapbox is the foundation for other platforms, letting enterprises analyze their data, drone companies publish flyovers, and much more. We work in the open and release as much code as possible.
Picterra is a Swiss startup company, based in Lausanne, at the Innovation Park of EPFL. Picterra provides AI as a service for Earth observation imagery, with the aim to put powerful deep learning models at users’ fingertips. Picterra’s technology is built upon the intersection of two majors revolutions: Artificial Intelligence and the increasing availability of Earth observation imagery from drones and satellites. Through its platform, Picterra proposes a unique and disruptive approach to extract structured and valuable information; a partnership between human discriminating intelligence and the analytics power of AI.
Audit Savoie Conseil accountancy and audit cabinet has been constructing a full offer of service around financial information and performance measurement for companies. We implement methodologies adapted to our client’s needs, which make it possible for us to accompany a variety of clients: business creators, micro-business, small and medium-sized businesses, group of small and medium-sized businesses, charities as well as more complex organizations, based in France and abroad, which we can accompany via our RSM France and RSM International networks.
A Special Thank You
Geodesk is an independent insurance broker with more than 25 years experience insuring NGOs and SIOs to any country in the world, whatever the mission or the risk involved. Geodesk is unique because of its geopolitical knowledge, its reactivity and its efficiency. Geodesk puts in place tailor-made solutions adapted to each organization as well as additional security and/or medical assistance specific to needs in highly sensitive areas. We would like to thank Geodesk for its support and for allowing CartONG to invite a member of the Kathmandu Living Labs to the GeOnG to host a workshop on "Maps for and with beneficiaries".
We are very thankful to the City of Chambéry for welcoming us at the Congress Center Le Manège, and for their support of the GeOnG Forum. Chambéry is a small city with a bit more than 100,000 inhabitants, situated between the Bauges massif and the Chartreuse mountain range in the French Alpes. Come and enjoy of the beauty of French atmosphere and an unique environment for a humanitarian meeting!
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