Are you ready to empower students? YouthMappers are college students making a difference with geospatial technology. The consortium organizes a global community of learners, researchers, educators, and scholars to create and use open geographic data that directly address locally-defined development challenges worldwide. Students and their faculty advisors in the US and in developing nations are invited to learn more about YouthMappers, an international university consortium on Mapping for Resilience.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- About the tools of humanitarian mapping
- About the great work completed by the YouthMappers
- How to join YouthMappers
Speakers
Dr. Patricia Solis, YouthMappers and Arizona State University
Dr. Thomas Mueller, Professor, California University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University
YouthMappers Information from the webinar
www.youthmappers.org/participate - to start a new chapter
www.youthmappers.org/chapters - to see existing chapters in a map or listing
www.youthmappers.org/projects - to see where we have worked
For those who want to start incorporating humanitarian mapping into their curriculum the resources on our wiki: https://sites.google.com/view/youthmapperswiki/higher-ed
To be inspired with stories: www.youthmappers.org/blog
Follow them on Twitter @youthmappers
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/youthmappers/
This webinar is part of a partnership between The National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence and Directions Magazine.
