Resource list from ICT for Development Learning Network’s August event on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Development: Experiences from the Field. The event was co-hosted by AED and Appropriate IT. Carmen Tedesco, Program Officer and Geospatial Coordinator at AED, moderated the panel discussion and also contributed to the resource list below.

Presentations:

• Silvia Petrova, Winrock International: GIS for International Development
• Andrew Ross, DAI: Demonstrated a tool that integrated DAI’s data into Google Earth as a layer
• Carrie Stokes, USAID: Geographic Information Systems at USAID and GEO Capacity Building Strategy
• Carmen Tedesco, AED: Small Investments that Yield Big Results: Community YouthMapping

Resources: (not in any particular order)

• Public Participatory GIS (http://www.ppgis.net) has an open e-forum on GIS which is a great resource
  • Collaborative spatial information management - bibliographic collections at http://ppgis.iapad.org/bibliography.htm
• Other large-scale community-based mapping programs
  • Association for American Geographers (AAG) My Community Our Earth program http://www.aag.org/sustainable/
  • National Geographic’s My Wonderful World http://MyWonderfulWorld.org
• GIS applications
  • SERVIR, a regional visualization and monitoring system for Mesoamerica http://www.servir.net/
  • Green Map, all about environmental mapping http://www.greenmap.org/
  • GeoCommons http://www.geocommons.com/
• Making Community Connections: The Orton Family Foundation Community Mapping Program http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1589480716
• FAO’s GeoNetwork http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/
• Google Earth http://earth.google.com/
• Other GIS resource lists
  • http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/users/pbcote/GIS/web_resources.html
  • http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/daved/gislinks.html
  • http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/map/links/gis.htm
  • US Census Bureau’s GIS Gateway http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gis_gateway.html

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