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CrisisMappers hosting webcast of 3D GeoTime Analysis of Ushahidi-Haiti Data

Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:04 by Walker

Our friends at The International Network of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net) will be hosting monthly webcasts where members can present projects they're involved in and share perspectives and ideas with other CM*Net members.

This Wednesday at 12:00pm EST, Using the Ushahidi-Haiti response dataset and the USGS earthquake event data, they'll be correlating eathquake and response data from a geo-temporal perspective, using GeoTime's 3D Space-Time Viewer.
For more info and to register - http://www.geotime.com/cmnet.aspx

TIDES at AFCEA/USNI West Conference 2010 in San Diego - Feb 2-4

Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 10:49 by Walker

TIDES is at the AFCEA/USNI West Conference that starts today - February 2nd - 4th! Come visit our booth if you are in the San Diego area. Registration is free, and you can find more information here - http://www.afcea.org/events/west/10/introduction.asp

Election Monitoring in Afghanistan

Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 09:51 by Walker

Attached is an article from the USAID website about how TIDES helped facilitate the quick development of a GIS tool to monitor election violence in Afghanistan during the August 09 elections.

Election Monitoring in Afghanistan

Posted Mon, 08/31/2009 - 15:08 by Walker

See this story at the USAID website about our efforts on integrating map data to help in disaster and development. Thanks much to our partners who participated at CP Roberts, and then made it happen in Afghanistan.

http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/gdc/
or
See attached report that is taken from the website.

Quick and Dirty Remote Monitoring.

Posted Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:13 by Jesse Krembs

Building ICT networks is all well and good but maintaining them is key. One of these keys is having a good monitoring system in place. For both rapid deployment networks & more long term ones, one possible solution is a remote centralized monitoring solution. Using a a service like Linode (linode.com) and a ready to use system monitor solution like GroundWork (groundworkopensource.com) along with a VPN it should make it possible to stand up a systems monitoring system in no time flat. While I haven't field tested this particular idea yet, at my current job we use a similar system. It even works over VSAT.

One Laptop Per Child

Posted Mon, 08/10/2009 - 08:36 by Walker

At many of the TIDES demos, the One Laptop Per Childs (OLPCs), also known as the XO laptop, have been a very popular exhibit. For those who want to learn more about it, here's a great overview
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hundred-dollar-laptop.htm

STAR-TIDES and the Afghanistan effort mention Government Computer News

Posted Fri, 07/24/2009 - 15:46 by Walker

Here's the link to the article
http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/07/23/Social-networking-media-national-secu...

Populating the Infrastructure Database

Posted Wed, 06/10/2009 - 14:10 by Dildine

The purpose of TIDES's infrastructure directory is to provide users with information about infrastructure solutions that may meet their needs; therefore, we want to provide users with the most useful available. Please help us to do this sharing your ideas and comments about what categories and features should be listed for ICT products.

The Grid

Posted Mon, 04/07/2008 - 15:38 by dnoon

I noticed this article today about "The Grid" which seems to be a big step forward in terms of speed and I wonder if this is linked to Comcasts announcement of 50mb service in the Twin Cities. At $150/month though- what does this hold for the availability of things like this for most people? And how revolutionary would this be to the world? How quick and expensive will it be to build the infrastructure for this?

Resource Description Framework RDF

Posted Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:22 by cglusky

There has beena bit of talk about RDF and metadata so here are some links - Thanks Arto!

Great intro/background 

http://drupal.org/node/219862

And more detail 

http://groups.drupal.org/node/9010
http://groups.drupal.org/node/8930

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