MEASURE GIS Working Group Meeting, June 2012
Use of geospatial tools and data in the international development sector has increased as the value of the technology has become apparent. As innovations and successes become more numerous it can be challenging to stay abreast of the latest achievements. The June 2012 MEASURE GIS Working Group Meeting highlighted recent innovations and presented future directions of the technology.
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See the Meeting Summary and the Meeting Agenda.
Meeting Overview
Ethiopia: Three ways of looking at the geography of HIV
Nathan Heard - US State Department
Using Global Population Datasets
Clara Burgert - MEASURE DHS
Mapping Health Services Using Both Old and New Technology in Limited Resource Environment
Andrew Inglis - MEASURE Evaluation
World Wide Human Geography Data Working Group
Justin Sherin - WWHGD Working Group (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Nigeria Mapping Summit
Kola Oyediran - MEASURE Evaluation
Core Curriculum for GIS Training
Clara Burgert, Thea Roy, and Blake Zachary - MEASURE DHS and MEASURE Evaluation
KoBo Toolbox
Phuong Pham - KoBo Research
Update on Opensource Whitepaper
Jen Curran - MEASURE Evaluation
ESRI Maps for Office and ArcGIS Online
Salim Sawaya - ESRI
MapBox
Eric Gunderson - Development Seed
New Frontiers: Linking Family Planning Users to Health Facilities
Livia Montana - Measurement, Learning & Evaluation Project, Carolina Population Center (UNC-CH)
Introducing Geospatial Thinking to Humanitarian Interventions
Robert Banick - American Red Cross
Exploratory Spatial Analysis using GeoDa
Jay Stewart - MEASURE Evaluation
Mapping for Results
Johannes Kiess - World Bank
Community Mapping
Marc Cunningham - MEASURE Evaluation