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Home » Around the Globe » Google Earth Focuses on Darfur

Google Earth Focuses on Darfur

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In a note­wor­thy use of what we in the tech busi­ness call a “killer app”, Google has teamed with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is using its online map­ping ser­vice to call atten­tion to atroc­i­ties in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Detail on this unique use of Google Earth tech­nol­ogy can be found in the video below. Although the plight of those in Darfur inar­guably demands the world’s atten­tion, DT presents this to high­light the power of tech employed to its poten­tial, not for polit­i­cal reasons.


For more infor­ma­tion and to employ our own killer app we invite you to watch the news clip on this topic by click­ing on this sen­tence … the blue one right here with the line under it.

– Ward

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  1. Ben says:
    April 12, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Interesting dis­claimer. Is being against geno­cide seen as polit­i­cally con­tro­ver­sial in the US now?

    Reply
  2. Ward says:
    April 12, 2007 at 8:24 am

    Only if you believe that George Clooney’s moti­va­tion is that he’s anti-​​Bush, Ben.
    Don’t be naive … or don’t pre­tend to be naive. If this isn’t a polit­i­cal issue then why aren’t US mil­i­tary forces there to ensure the geno­cide stops?

    Reply
  3. Scott Drumm says:
    April 12, 2007 at 9:56 am

    Unlike Iraq (and pos­si­bly Iran), they have noth­ing that we want, so there’s no value to us in get­ting involved.
    The same logic can be applied to why we’re fight­ing the GWOT in the Middle East (home to most of the world’s oil) and not in North Korea (who are prob­a­bly alot close to a nuclear device and a deliv­ery system).

    Reply
  4. ZeusIrae says:
    April 12, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    “DT presents this to high­light the power of tech employed to its poten­tial, not for polit­i­cal rea­sons.“
    I find this really disturbing.

    Reply
  5. Ward says:
    April 12, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    How so, ZeusIrae? And please don’t sug­gest that the state­ment implies we don’t care about the suf­fer­ing there. We posted this because we believe it has the power to help. We just wanted to get out ahead of a polit­i­cal debate that has noth­ing to do with the use of this tech.

    Reply
  6. Dr. Curiosity says:
    April 14, 2007 at 2:46 am

    I feel this is show­ing tech­nol­ogy being employed to its poten­tial for _​humanitarian_​ pur­poses, not polit­i­cal ones.
    It’s a demon­stra­tion of using tech­nol­ogy to open up the story of peo­ple in a life– and livelihood-​​threatening sit­u­a­tion, using both geospa­tial infor­ma­tion and nar­ra­tive tech­niques to edu­cate peo­ple. Showing peo­ple is often a lot more effec­tive than sim­ply telling them.
    What we do about it, as indi­vid­u­als, groups or nations, is left up to us to decide. Having the infor­ma­tion there to explore is (or should be) apolitical.

    Reply
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