Imagination for People

Google Map Maker being used in Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago. Video inside.

MapStory, as a compliment to Wikipedia, is a new dimension to the global data commons that empowers a global user community to organize all knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. Perhaps more important, MapStory is an infrastructure for enabling "MapStorytelling" as a means of communicating important issues to a global audience. The goal is to enable any student, teacher or practitioner on Earth to tap the power of this new mode of conveying one's stories, arrayed across geography and as they unfold over time.

Green mapping initiative in Harlem.

List of crow-mapping initiatives.

Article on Ushahidi, the Standby Task Force and other crowdmapping initiatives. From SSI Review.

List of 13 crowdfunding sites for social entrepreneurs. See comments for more suggestions. To consider for possible partnerships and or benchmarking with I4P.

International Network of Crisis Mappers. Blog + Google Group for discussions on crisis mapping.

Improving disaster response by collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data in industry standard geographic information system (GIS) formats to NGOs and relief agencies in near real-time.

The Standby Task Force is a team of digital mapping volunteers that work for faster, more efficient humanitarian response.

Initiative by Ushahidi. Crowdmaps are used right now in Haiti (hurricane relief), in Syria (violence reports) and Russia, among others.

Google's crisis response and mapping initiative.

"RowFeeder account is only $250 for up to 50K results/mo and 50 terms. "

Webinar on crisis mapping given by Helena Puig from UNDP's Threat and Risk Mapping Analysis unit in Sudan.

Sweden is exploring how forms of social innovation can solve persistent social problems

The role of brand in non-profit organizations.