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Automating Data into 4D Maps

Challenges Entered: 
Environmental, Health, Education, Political, and Economic data -- local and international.We can handle any data with a location and a time!



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With background in ecological economic development, and in web-site development for non-profit causes, we are familiar with handling statistics and sensitive to the concerns of users.

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Financial support: 
Project has financial support
Project goals: 
By seeing an animated model of a changing world, people will better apprehend their context and the context of others. Our mashup links an interactive map generators, our own and google earth and others, with bulk statistics on a wide range of issues. At our site, we host videos and snapshots of 3D interaction with the mapped data, AND we output KML files that load easily into Google Earth and other geobrowsers. As such, we are a multipurpose bridge between statistics and mapping environments, and by connecting these two domains will improve understanding of local and global concerns. In regrad to the Net Squared community in particular, all NGO Issue advocates will have a new top-notch tool for drawing attention to their causes. By supporting their concerns with relevant data AND by making it easy to absorb the data, their issues will recieve more attention. For example, when looking at life-expectancy in Africa, and then seeing it drop during the genocide in Rwanda, and again as AIDS spread through the south, viewers will apprehend the gravity of these issues much better than if they only hear numbers or see tables. The same impact can usefully be applied to charting changing unemployment patterns or crime statistics in a city and countless other issues. Our team is keen to work with the Net Squared community, to serve as a bridge for them, to bring in and forge connection to whatever data they are interested in seeing. We are presently providing access to the data of many international organizations and also have brought in data for neighborhoods and cities across the US. We are eager to expand our data offerings and have automated tools for creating connections to new sources.
Identified Obstacles: 
We would very much like feedback and advisors to help make this offering as useful as possible to the NEt Squared community. We want users trying out the site and using the KML files, and creating content for posting.I suppose it is approriate here to note that this project is being executed by a startup with tight resources. We are keen on deploying a Web2.0 syled mashup environment because we believe in the social benefit of our product, and because we value engagment with a user community that cares about global and causes. Simultaneously, it should be known that we will be working through separate channels deploy related technology on a contract basis. Intially we forsee supporting clients that would commision content development using our visualization engine or deploy our downloadable application and server-based mashup environment internally to their organization.

Location

San Francisco, CA
United States

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Sponsors

  • Microsoft
  • Yahoo
  • Business Objects
  • Raincity Studios
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Ready Talk
  • .
  • Adobe
  • Linden Lab
  • Network For Good
  • Wild Apricot
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • L'Atelier North America
  • The Panelist
  • Good
  • Fora.tv
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