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Can Geolocation Change the World for Good?

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010


An article this past week, titled "11 ways geolocation is changing the world," prompted our editors to dig deeper into whether the application of location technology could impact the world, one person at at time, for good. While optimistic, Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg found some bumps along the path, which stretches far ahead of us.

Show Notes

Videos from the 2010 Esri International User Conference plenary are now available online. You can hear Esri president Jack Dangermond share his vision for making GIS available to everyone, listen to Esri staff discuss ArcGIS 10, see GIS users celebrated, and listen to keynote speaker and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman talk about urban supercities. To watch the videos, visit www.esri.com/uc.


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