William F. Schulz, senior fellow for human rights policy at the Center for American Progress co-authored a report (pdf) recommending the government deploy social networking, satellite mapping and other technologies to combat oppression overseas. Schultz is looking for more National Science Foundation funding for human rights work.
One specific suggestion: “publishing parts of a classified Defense Department database of satellite imagery.” Per NextGov:
The government either should update the public database or release specific portions of its classified, comprehensive system that cover at-risk areas such as Darfur, Burma and the Congo, according to the report.
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/21 at 06:42 AM |
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Central Piedmont Community College (NC) and its geomatics program is part of this week’s Advanced Technological Education Television (ATETV) episode. ATETV is “a Web-based video series and interactive network designed to connect students and professionals with careers in advanced technology. An Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Project funded in part by the National Science Foundation, ATETV aims to show how ATE is relevant to the modern workplace and to attract students to this growing field.”
- via @BKeenan
The College of William and Mary’s Associate Professor of sociology Salvatore Saporito received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a database of school attendance boundaries for the country’s largest school districts. He and his students will work for two years to collect data from 800 school districts, about half of the districts in the U.S. It’s not clear how the data will be disseminated.
Wheeler Ruml, assistant professor of computer science at the University of New Hampshire is member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) prestigious Computer Science Study Panel. The yearlong program sends 12 junior faculty from around the country to visit the CIA, the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) among other military sites. Ruml’s research’s shortest path algorithms. The program aims to point researchers in the directions the military may need and for Ruml included a grant of $99,220 and possible future grants.
Consider the Community Planning Fellowship Program in New York City. It’s mostly funded by the non-profit Fund for the City of New York. Each fellow receives a $5,000 stipend and is expected to work 15 hours on a community project.
Grad student Preeti Sodhi was one of a dozen graduate students who was part of it last year. Each fellow is assigned to a community board in Manhattan; Sodhi worked on several projects with Community Board 3 on the Lower East Side.
She mapped liquor stores and her board’s district manager says she used it during her testimony on a liquor license application.
Actually, the Virgin Atlantic survey shows that more people (35%) are stressed stressed about not being online because they lose contact with family or friends, but the second most stressful thing, at 25%, is lack of access to maps. The survey included 1000 participants.
Frankly, I missed that big news from last week, but I found it in an odd way, via a press release from ExpertSource, a company that, as you may have guessed, offers up “experts.” The release suggests Maponics CEO Darrin Clement (friend of DM and regular APB commenter) as an expert to interpret the mapping statistic. Isn’t the media fun?
