Humanitarian Issues

GEOINT and Epidemiology

Geospatial data has powerful implications for fighting the spread of infectious disease

The Rise of the Digital Humanitarian

The GEOINT Community’s response to the Nepal earthquakes

Missing Maps

The need to preemptively map the world’s most vulnerable populations

Visualizing ICT Needs

Plotting tech needs of NGOs in areas of response

An Unprecedented Response

The GEOINT Community’s role in the Ebola relief effort

Mapping #Ebola

Twitter data heat map shows timeline of Ebola-related tweets

Wildlife Crimes

Can Intelligence Community tools and practices help stop poaching in Africa?

Crowdsourcing to Combat Poaching

Conservationists are adopting crowdsourcing methods used by the intelligence and GIS communities to gather data on wildlife crime

Defeating Disaster

Fueled by open-source software and crowdsourcing, the crisis mapping community is rapidly expanding

Success Left of Zero

The significance of human geography before and during conflict