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Alexandre Enkerli

Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views

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Mapping OSM

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  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
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  • places where Google cannot or does not often go
  • big, largely Western, multinational corporations
  • worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
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      Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12
       
      Hurray for citizen-driven innovation?
  • awful performance
  • DevelopmentSeed
  • DevelopmentSeed CEO
  • really rich community of people
  • want to map
  • worldwide basemap
  • making it easier
  • competitor
  • famously sophisticated map layers.
  • complicated relationship
  • supporter of open source
  • funded through Google Summer of Code
  • Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
  • undermining Google's geospatial dominance
  • challenge a competitor's core competency
  • weaken the competition
  • grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
  • Open Elections
  • developer-friendly data
  • LocalData
  • research
  • tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods
François Burra

Seen & Heard - What you might be missing « Acumen Fund Blog - 0 views

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  • François Burra on 22 Aug 12
     
    Page recensant des articles pertinents
Philippe Huot

The public sector should support social innovation, not seek to define it | Social ente... - 0 views

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public sector social innovation sweden

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  • Philippe Huot on 24 Aug 12
     
    Sweden is exploring how forms of social innovation can solve persistent social problems
Philippe Huot

Crisis Mapping Analytics: Crisis Mappers Webinar available | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal - 1 views

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crisis mapping webinar

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  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    Webinar on crisis mapping given by Helena Puig from UNDP's Threat and Risk Mapping Analysis unit in Sudan.
Philippe Huot

Co-operation Canadian style | Social enterprise network | Guardian Professional - 0 views

socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/...canadian-co-operatives

enterprise canada cooperation social

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  • Philippe Huot on 22 Aug 12
     
    Article on the co-operative movement in Canada.
Philippe Huot

Google Lat Long: Map Maker updates for Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago - 2 views

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google map maker mapping crowdsourcing

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  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    Google Map Maker being used in Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago. Video inside.
Philippe Huot

Crisis Mapping for Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Resilience | iRevolution - 2 views

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crisis mapping disaster crowdsourcing

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  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    From Patrick Meier's blog.
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