Darfur

I wanted to let everyone know about an interesting project from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth to help bring the crisis in Darfur to light. Google Earth is a program you can download for free at http://earth.google.com/ that uses all sorts of satellite imagery to show real images of almost any place on the planet, and they worked with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Genocide Prevention Mapping Project to create a way of 'seeing' what's going on in Darfur. There is a ton of information- interviews, videos, photos and information about how to help. This is some information from the USHMM website:

'The Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative seeks to collect, share and visually present to the world critical information on emerging crises that may lead to genocide or related crimes against humanity.

Beginning with Darfur, we are building an interactive “global crisis map" that will provide citizens, aid workers and foreign policy professionals with a new tool to share and understand information quickly, to "see the situation", enabling more effective prevention and response.'



The website is here: http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/projects/darfur/ . I think this is an amazing project, and an amazing use of technology.

Hope everyone is doing well,
Lesley.