Crisis mapping by Jen Ziemke about the Angolan Civil War has helped predict when combatants are likely to target civilians.

The Commons congratulates Tostan and UNICEF on their partnership with hundreds of African communities in the new Jokko Initiative in Senegal.  Jokko, which means “communication” in Wolof, is opening up new methods of communication and education for people using mobile phones.

Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 14-16 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra. This event is free to the general public.

A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese school. Several unwitting children will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls.

New ideas for a better world captivated the minds of many at an unprecedented event at the State Department yesterday-- TED@State. Leading thinkers in conflict resolution, environmental affairs, business approaches to poverty-reduction, social media and international health brought Washington DC its first-ever US Government sponsored TEDTalks.

Online Community Unconference East 2010

held at

Digital Sandbox, New York City

February 10, 2010

I remember years ago having ArcInfo Workstation send emails when it was finished processing and I’ve always thought the next logical step was having it send a text message. Rafa Gutierrez looked at Twitter for alerts and posted instructions as to how to get your ArcMap Model to send you a tweet when it is [...]

There is more going on with OpenLayers and the ESRI REST API than you probably know (I keep finding more and more that I didn’t know about every day).  As more people start using OpenLayers with the ESRI ArcGIS Server we’ll hopefully get it integrated into the OpenLayer code.  For now you can grab some [...]

Looks like user presentations are a go at the 2009 ESRI Dev Summit.
At this point, it looks like we’re going to have about 10-15 scheduled slots.  The capacity of the room will be between 50 and 70, so it should end up being a more interactive experience if you want it to be.  This room [...]

Remember OAM? People sort of remember the project and then they can’t figure out what happened to it. Well Christopher Schmidt, fresh off the reboot of SpatialReference.org, is trying to energize the community again.  Even the Wikipedia entry needs work.