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Friday, 18 December 2009

Reflections on our Africa Adventures

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From late October to early November, the Google Earth Outreach team, along with Googlers from our Africa and Geo teams, participated in several events in East Africa.

During the AfricaGIS 2009 conference in Kampala, Uganda, plenary sessions by Google Earth Outreach Manager Rebecca Moore and Geo Evangelist Ed Parsons spoke to the importance of access and and development of geographic data in Africa, and encouraged people to attend some of our 14 workshops on various Google Geo tools. Our colleagues from Save the Elephants, Mapping Africa's Protected Areas (MAPA) and the UN Environment Programme presented on a panel and answered questions from the audience about their Google Earth Layers. What struck us about these workshops was the high level of interest and excitement from the huge number of attendees we had at every workshop, and their desire for greater access to geospatial information and adoption of cutting-edge technologies developed weeks earlier, like the Google Fusion Tables map visualization tools.


Google Earth Outreach launched our program to most countries in Africa, also releasing an Africa microsite specially for African users. The Google Earth & Maps for Non-profits grants program is now available in most African countries, and NGOs are encouraged to apply for software grants. If you're an African NGO, apply now!

Posted by Tanya Keen, Google Earth Outreach

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Réflexions sur nos aventures africaines

De fin octobre à mi-novembre, l’équipe Google Earth Outreach et les ingénieurs Google des équipes Africa et Geo, ont participé à plusieurs événements en Afrique de l’Est.

Lors de sessions plénières à la conférence AfricaGIS 2009 à Kampala en Ouganda, Rebecca Moore, directrice du programme Google Earth Outreach, et Ed Parsons, le gourou de la technologie de Geo, ont évoqué l’importance du développement et de l’accessibilité des données géographiques en Afrique. Ils ont fortement encouragés la participation aux 14 ateliers organisés par Google sur différents outils Google Geo. Nos collègues de Save the Elephants, Mapping Africa's Protected Areas (MAPA) et le Programme des Nations Unies pour l’Environnement (PNUE) ont organisé une table ronde et répondu aux questions du public sur leurs calques d’informations géographiques de Google Earth. Nous avons été frappés par l’intérêt et l’enthousiasme manifestés par la plupart des participants dans chaque atelier, ainsi que par leur désir d’accéder aux informations géo-spatiales et d’adopter les technologies avancées, développées quelques semaines auparavant, comme l’outil de visualisation cartographique Google Fusion Tables.

Le programme Google Earth Outreach a été lancé dans la plupart des pays africains et un microsite Afrique a été spécialement créé pour les utilisateurs de ce continent. Le programme de subventions Google Earth & Maps pour les associations à but non lucratif est désormais disponible dans la plupart des pays africains et les ONG sont invitées à demander des subventions pour des logiciels. Si vous êtes une ONG africaine, faites une demande.

Posté par Tanya Keen, Google Earth Outreach
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