Google has teamed up with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to highlight the Darfus crisis using Google Earth:
Google Earth has added a Global Awareness layer to its maps program that lets you learn about the crisis in Darfur. By selecting the Global Awareness layer (in the lower left-hand corner of Google Earth) you can fly over enhanced satellite images of the war-torn region. Sprinkled over the map are icons that link to photographs, data, videos, and narratives of eyewitnesses to the genocide.
What an excellent use of internet technology to educate users about a crisis that many people probably don’t fully understand. Grab a copy of Google Earth and read more about the project at the Holocaust Memorial Museum website. I’m eager to see what other educational uses will be found for Google Earth and similar tools in the future.
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April 14, 2007 at 07:21
Glad to see the U.S.Holocaust Museum involved with Google on this—for quality peer-review and oversight. For those interested in the “persecuted Christians” side of this story (often left out of the general media coverage here in the U.S. and abroad) visit: Voice Of The Martyrs at http://www.persecution.com/ (log on as member and go to Sudan page); Operation Nehemiah ministers to Christian (and Hebrew Christian) churches and refugees in Southern Sudan, http://www.operationsnehemiah.org/ and read the story of the founder of this mission, William Levi, in his book “The Bible Or The Axe,” http://www.operationsnehemiah.org/page/The-Bible-or-the-Axe
I’m not sure why the press speaks so little of this side of the tragedy of Sudan.
April 15, 2007 at 18:25
This is what’s wrong with today’s media. We have so much going on in the world and yet, the Imus scandal gets all the attention. Anyway, the fact that Google Earth provides this great tool for us who are aware of the reality of real life is very encouraging. I hope they continue to use their “don’t be evil” pressence with such great tools such as these.