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Non-government organization (NGO) activity in developing countries is difficult to track due to limited infrastructure. URISA’s GISCorps, which coordinates short-term, volunteer-based GIS services to underprivileged communities, was asked to assist the Craig Bellamy Foundation in creating an interactive map showing the locations of international and national NGO offices and their programs in Sierra Leon, a developing country in Western Africa. Michael Knapp, a GIS specialist from Anchorage, Alaska, describes how a combination of Esri and Google technology accomplished the task.
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As we continue to introduce you to some of your colleagues in GIS, this week we meet Kerry L. Wright, the city of Tampa's GIS supervisor for the Enterprise Applications Division of the Department of Technology and Innovation.