You can see the scanned certificate and the letter from President Obama at the GISCorps site.
Not sure what the award is/is for?
The President's Volunteer Service Award is an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service and is administered by the Points of Light Institute.
The award (about page) is generic and recognizes hours of service and inspiring others to serve. More than two million organizational and individual awards have been bestowed.
GISCorps does great things; awards like this are just icing on the cake of service.
- via @Gletham
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/15 at 09:16 AM |
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Land Cover Classification Competition: Join Now!
First Prize: The top ten validators will become co-authors of the paper:
Generation of a global hybrid land cover dataset.
Other Prizes
• Best Classifier – highest quality with the highest number of validations: 35 Euro Voucher from Amazon
• Second best Classifier: 20 Euro Amazon Voucher
• Third best Classifier: 20 Euro Amazon Voucher
This is part of the Geo-Wiki effort. Competition ends March 30.
- via SlashGeo
Google Map Maker University Mapping Contest for the US and Canada
Register now and start mapping February 13, 2012 through March 9, 2012!
Be a part of a university mapping contest open for US and Canadian students who currently study at a university in these two countries! From February 13, 2012 to March 9, 2012, improving the maps of your campus can give you a chance to be a local hero and the highest scoring entries will win prizes like Samsung Galaxy tablets, Samsung Android phones, Google Map Maker messenger bags, and more!
URISA's student paper/poster contest is on again. Different rules for undergrad/grad vs. community college/certificate students. Prizes: publication of paper on website, student membership (value $20) and/or registration (NO travel/hotel) to annual or regional URISA event. Submissions due May 21, 2012.
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/16 at 03:00 AM |
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URISA reports that 25 GISCorps volunteers have recently been deployed to 9 new missions in 7 countries including Libya, Indonesia and Samoa.
- URISA News (not sure why it's not a press release)
The Cultural Heritage Administration [Korea] said Thursday it will launch a new information service in March that will pinpoint the location of historic sites and give users information on regulations in places where construction is scheduled.
The service is a revamped and expanded version of the existing Cultural Heritage GIS Service (http://gis-heritage.go.kr). GIS stands for geographic information service. The CHA will finish a pilot run of the new service by next month and officially launch it on March 1.
- Chosun Ilbo
Twitter activity in Africa is tops in South Africa, followed by Kenya, per a study by Portland Communications .
South Africa is the continent’s most active country by volume of geo-located Tweets, with over twice as many Tweets (5,030,226 during the fourth quarter of 2011 followed by Kenya at 2,476,800.
Nigeria 1,646,212), Egypt (1,214,062) and Morocco (745,620) make up the remainder of the top five most active countries on twitter. African Twitter users are active across a range of social media, including Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn.
- Business Daily Africa
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/26 at 04:53 AM |
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New England URISA is hosting a one day, inexpensive ($45 in advance!) event on Oct. 3 at Old Sturbridge Village. I've been asked to give the keynote address, which I've titled Preparing for GIS in 2012. The single track conference means everyone sees every presentation. There's plenty of time to network between sessions and at lunch. One session worthy of note focusses on three of the different certifications currently available to those in our field: APSRS, Esri and GISP.
I'll see you there!
- details and registration
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/16 at 07:04 AM |
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As of August 2: "So far, more than 500 individuals have taken advantage of the offer to join URISA for $20." The real question is how may will convert to full fare memberships after the discounted year ends.
This type of marketing worked on me with an online sporting goods store. It was $1.99 for the first year, then auto-renewed at $25. And, with free shipping and disocunts on everything, I found even the full fare membership was a deal.
- URISA PR
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The restrictions: "This offer is available to anyone who is not currently a dues-paying member of URISA International and has not been a member in the past 2 years." And several of the benefits listed are "priceless," so it's clearly a deal.
Sign on up!
via @URISA
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/02 at 11:40 AM |
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