April
11
UNHCR And Google Earth: "Google Earth Outreach"
IRAQ United Nations UN High Commissioner for Refugees Google Chad Darfur Columbia Trackbacks (0)The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
has annnounced a new UNHCR and Google Earth initiative "Google Earth
Outreach" that was launched in Geneva on 8 April 2008. The programme
gives the humanitarian agencies an opportunity to virtually zoom in on
specific refugee situations and provides a tool for a close-up view of
some of the major displacement crises and humanitarian efforts.
Currently the programme is focused on Chad/Darfur, Colombia and Iraq
with plans to expand further.
According to UNHCR technical experts,
the Google Earth programme, as it grows
"will allow UNHCR and its humanitarian partners to build and share with
each other a visual, geographic record of their joint efforts on the
ground to help refugees".
Read the UNHCR press-release or see the Google Earth Outreach from the UNHCR website (the Google Earth has to be installed first). UN Pulse Permanent Link: UNHCR and Google Earth