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Low-Cost, Shared GIS Resource for Advocates
Challenges Entered:
Create an easy to use template and engine that will lower the cost and technological barriers that advocates face in using GIS in their issue activism.
In cooperation with a number of partners, we will work to create a template and engine that advocates can use to easily incorporate GIS into their advocacy work.
These templates will also provide a community forum and a letter writing tool out of the box, uniting GIS technology with the tools of the social web, creating a new model to effectively mobilize communities to action and create social change at the municipal and state level.
We believe that the ability to translate large data sets of information into an easily understandable format that will educate, motivate, and drive everyday people to action will be an incredibly valuable resources to advocates and elected officials across the country, and change the way that citizens become involved in all manner of complex social problems including urban planning, environmental justice, and racial/ethnic disparities.
WHAT WE NEED:
Approximately $100,000 to develop the tool.
Input and advice from advocates working on range of issues to ensure that the tool is maximally useful (and usable).
Input and advice from advocates working on range of issues to ensure that the tool is maximally useful (and usable).
Location
New York, NY
United States
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Combining efforts
As a budding GIS professional in the environmental field, I would love to see this project work together with the two other proposed GIS projects (Maps 2.0 and OpenStreetMap) to provide what would be a complete GIS toolkit - technology, data and information - all in one place.
Oh yeah
We would certainly be interested in that.
Mashup advocacy
I remember reading about this when it first launched, and I really like it. I also appreciate the "giving back to the community" with the templates and tools for other nonprofits.
--ivan (quixotic1.com/Genocide Intervention Network)
Mashup advocacy
I remember reading about this when it first launched. I really like it. I really like the "giving back to the community" with the creation of templates and tools that other nonprofits can use.
--ivan (quixotic1.com/Genocide Intervention Network)