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A Message from the Core Committee
Greetings Volunteers and Friends,
Since this is our first newsletter in 2012, we would like to extend to you and yours our belated New Year's greetings and best wishes.
We would like to report one of our busiest quarters to date; we have deployed 25 of our volunteers to 9 new projects since November 2011. These volunteers created/cleansed databases, developed/tested GIS models and tools, and built web applications for projects in Libya, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Indonesia, and Zambia.
We are also in various stages of recruitment for several GSDI Association projects. We have been working with GSDI for several years and hope to place a number of volunteers in this year's projects which are in several countries including Russia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uzbekistan.
We have created a new Profile Page for volunteers that have been working on our DPRK project for the past several years. Their hard work and determination is awe-inspiring and we couldn't be more proud of their work and the work of our volunteers in general.
Thank you again for your continued support and interest in GISCorps!
GISCorps Core Committee,
Heather Milton, Mark Salling, Allen Ibaugh, Dianne Haley, Shoreh Elhami
P.S. Please email info@giscorps.org if you want to be removed from this list.
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Deployment and Partnership News
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Missions in Progress
A total of 14 missions are currently in progress and several new projects (GSDI) are about to begin.
Detailed accounts of these projects are posted on our Ongoing Projects Page.
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Featured Projects
Volunteers assisted in data cleansing of health facilities in Libya
At the request of the World Health Organization (WHO), GISCorps volunteers were deployed to a data cleansing project in Libya. The dataset included the locations of health facilities around the country. The information was collected from various resources and by volunteers from two other partner organizations: the Stand By Task Force (SBTF) and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT). GISCorps volunteers working on this project were: Abdel-Rahman Muhsen from Calgary and Case Robertson from Georgia. Read more by clicking here.
 Volunteers Conducting QC on a GIS Desktop Volunteers assist in three phases of a disaster simulation in Samoa
The United Nations Platform for Space-Based information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response or UN-Spider held a one day event in Geneva in mid November 2011. During the event, running a disaster simulation in Samoa was proposed and December 3rd, 2011 was selected as the simulation date. Several participants including GISCorps expressed interest in participating and making their volunteers available to the exercise. The volunteer team included: Richard Parkin, Heather Milton, Randy Hale, Abdo Abdelrasoul and Amit Jadhav, and John Van Hoesen. Read more here.
Read more about other completed GISCorps projects here.
Read more about projects in progress here.
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This time we are showcasing the profiles of our DPRK project's volunteers.
This profile page belongs to GISCorps' mission with the World Food Program (WFP) which is in collaboration with iMMAP. This ongoing project started in 2009 and to date, over 50 volunteers have worked on it. Due to the magnitude of the project more volunteers may be deployed in the near future. The project is managed by an amazing team of volunteers and this page will start with their profiles. They are: Carol Kraemer, Chris Zumwalt, Karen Payne, Patrick Young, Scott Oatley, and Karen Payne, our project advisor. Read more here.
From top left: Carol Kraemer, Patrick Young, Karen Payne, Chris Zumwalt, Scott Oatley; DPRK project's management team
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News from Friends of GISCorps
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Thank you for your continued support of URISA's GISCorps!
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Get Social with GISCorps!
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Shop for
GISCorps Stuff
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Do you find yourself in need of a new T-shirt, coffee mug, ball cap or tote bag? Do you want to advertise GISCorps and your association with the organization? Well, you are in luck! You can now find various GISCorps items at our online shop:
http://www.cafepress.com/giscorps
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GISCorps Core Committee
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Allen Ibaugh
Heather Milton, Chair
Dianne Haley
Mark Salling, Vice Chair
Shoreh Elhami, Co-founder
Contact us:
www.giscorps.org
Email: info@giscorps.org
Twitter: @giscorps
Donate to support the continued good work and future of GISCorps (tax-deductible)
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Volunteer Database
It is critical to our operations that our volunteer database is as up-to-date as possible, since it is this database that we query to find volunteers suitable for deployment on a mission.
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URISA 2012 Conference Calendar
GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference
March 12-15, 2012
San Antonio, Texas
URISA Leadership Academy
June 11-15, 2012
Savannah, Georgia
URISA/NENA Addressing Conference
August 6-9, 2012
Memphis, Tennessee
GIS-Pro 2012: URISA's 50th Annual Conference for GIS Professionals
October 1-4, 2012
Portland, Oregon
URISA's Caribbean GIS Conference
November 12-16, 2012
Montego Bay, Jamaica
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