The story behind Assetmap.org/Uganda

nlwhittemore — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:36:41 -0400

As you know, we’re currently competing in Netsquared’s Mashup Challenge competition with our project, “Assetmap.org/Uganda”

CivicSpace: Community Date on Maps-- on small part of a platform for Social Change

geilhufe — Thu, 04 May 2006 09:11:37 -0400

What if you could present virtually any data easily on the web? So easily that your average nonprofit employee could just upload a data file and have all the technical details worked out for them?

Generate crime maps to talk about why the police need to spend time in your neighborhood.

Zack Rosen shows us how its done today:

http://www.zacker.org/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine

Pretty easy, but not quite to the level of simplicity to be useful to tens of thousands of organizations. This is the type of ease of use we are seeking to build into CivicSpace On Deamand-- hide all the Drupal power and complexity.

NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoup.org - community development

The story behind Assetmap.org/Uganda

CivicSpace: Community Date on Maps-- on small part of a platform for Social Change