Tufts students last semester successfully used crisis mapping to aid rescue and relief efforts in the wake of the Haiti earthquake in January. This semester, crisis mapping makes its return to the ...

REDLANDS, Calif., Oct. 6, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Esri today announced a partnership with Ushahidi that will improve the collection and use of crowd-sourced information during large-scale emergencies ...

Coast Guard Academy Cadet First Class Evan Twarog is presented with the Coast Guard Achievement Medal at the Academy by Capt. Jay Vann, Academy Asst. Superintendent, Sept. 11, 2018. (Photo courtesy of ...

New and larger jurisdictions have begun to join the Opioid Mapping Initiative, a coordinated effort to help local government agencies share insights and use data to visualize the story of the nation’s ...

I picked up a link to a PowerPoint Introducing Crisis Mapping: An interdisciplinary new field from a Twitter posting. What I like about it is that it contains several elements. This includes the "why?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Earlier this month Facebook announced a new crisis mapping initiative ...

Daniel Stauffacher is former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations and Co-Founder and Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation. How do we respond? How do we know when to respond? Two fundamental ...

As hundreds of trees fell across Long Island last weekend and tens of thousands of homes lost power, Nassau County's 911 system proved to be no match for a powerful nor'easter. Compare the ...