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.