{"id":113,"date":"2008-05-02T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2008\/05\/02\/mapping-genocide-google-earth-and-darf"},"modified":"2008-05-02T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:40:38","slug":"mapping-genocide-google-earth-and-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2008\/05\/02\/mapping-genocide-google-earth-and-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Genocide: Google Earth and Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staceyperlman.blogspot.com\/\">Stacy Perlman<\/a>, a senior at Northeastern University, interviewed me a few weeks back for a piece on the use of Google Maps for human rights activism. The result, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/staceyperlman.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/mapping-genocide-google-earth-and.html\">Mapping Genocide: Google Earth and Darfur<\/a>,&#8221; is a wonderful narrative piece of journalism, plotting the  emergence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/maps\/projects\/darfur\/\">Crisis in Darfur<\/a> through Ushahid<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushahidi.com\/\">i<\/a>.  Stacy captures the crucial crux of this issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0While there is no way to monitor how many people have been influenced by the map to join an advocacy group, lobby congress or donate money, a <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/outreach\/cs_darfur.html\">case study<\/a> report on the project noted that \u201cmore than 100,000 have visited the \u201cWhat Can I Do?\u201d page on the museum\u2019s site to find out how they can help.\u201d The page provides a variety of ways to take a stand including contacting the media to tell them there is a lack of coverage on the issue and communicating with decision-makers such as the U.S. government and the United Nations about the need for humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p>While crediting the Crisis in Darfur Map as a great awareness tool, Joshua Goldstein, a graduate research assistant at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/\">Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society<\/a> at Harvard Law School noted that the obvious pushback to a project like this is that \u201cat the end of the day you\u2019re not saving lives.\u201d Although awareness about Darfur is critical, Goldstein makes the point that awareness that leads to activism is even more crucial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacy Perlman, a senior at Northeastern University, interviewed me a few weeks back for a piece on the use of Google Maps for human rights activism. The result, &#8220;Mapping Genocide: Google Earth and Darfur,&#8221; is a wonderful narrative piece of journalism, plotting the emergence of Crisis in Darfur through Ushahidi. Stacy captures the crucial crux [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[678,2143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-tech-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}