[Sci-tech-public] CIS EVENT: Human Rights and GIS Mapping Technologies

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>THE MIT CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND ITS PROGRAM ON HUMAN
>RIGHTS AND JUSTICE INVITE YOU TO
>
>Human Rights and GIS Mapping Technologies
>
>Lars Bromley, Project Director, AAAS
>
>Wednesday, March 18, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
>
>MIT BLDG 1-190
>
>Lars Bromley will discuss his experiences applying high-resolution
>satellite imagery, other remote sensing data, and mapping
>technologies to human rights work in Darfur, Burma, Ethiopia, and
>elsewhere. He will focus on the challenges of meeting user-needs
>among non-governmental human rights organizations, the value of the
>technologies for those organizations, and research and development
>priorities.
>
>Lars Bromley is a Project Director at the American Association for
>the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He served as the principal
>researcher and chief cartographer for the AAAS Atlas of Population
>and Environment (http://atlas.aaas.org).
>
>For more information, visit the event page:
>
>http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?event=10547926&location=http://web.mit.edu/cis/calendar/&groupid=330,447,1132,482,299,1447,1116,1291,352
>
>
>Graham Denyer Willis
>...
>PhD Candidate, International Development Group
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>77 Massachusetts Avenue, 9-569
>Cambridge, MA
>02139-4307
>T. 857.399.3440
>E. g_dw at mit.edu
>W. web.mit.edu/g_dw/www
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