2. Background
Objective of working group is:
2.Identify state of the art practices in the geospatial
realm
3.Build a community of geospatial practitioners to
share knowledge
4.Contribute to the discussion
3. Background
First meeting in February 2000
Meet 1-2 times a year every year since then
Attendees from USAID, US Dept of State, other
federal departments, NGOs, academia, private
sector, World Bank
4. Today’s meeting
Try to capture recent developments in geospatial
field
Data
Capacity
Software
Analysis
5. Output of meeting
Geospatial innovations one-sheeter
Update community on geospatial developments
Inform decision makers about ways geospatial
tools can improve data and analysis
6. MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U.S. Agency for
International Development and is implemented by the
Carolina Population Center at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group
International, ICF Macro, John Snow, Inc., Management
Sciences for Health, and Tulane University. The views
expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect
the views of USAID or the United States Government.
