High-tech mapping, apps fight deadly dengue outbreak in Honduras – medical charity
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation High-tech mapping and mobile phone apps are being used to combat dengue fever in Honduras as the Central American nation struggles to fight the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease on record, medical charity MSF said on Thursday. Honduras has one of the Americas’ highest incidence rates of dengue, with some […]
Walk the talk: Cities urged to study footpaths for better land use
Washington, DCThomson Reuters Foundation Mapping informal footpaths could help city planners tackle a range of urban issues stemming from depopulation and vacant land, researchers said on Wednesday. At the beginning of the decade, the northern US city of Detroit had more than 5,680 informal paths, many of them in lower-income neighbourhoods, according to a study […]
MAPPING: “THEY TOOK AWAY OUR IDENTITY” – GOOGLE MAPS PUZZLES RESIDENTS WITH NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD NAMES
UMBERTO BACCHI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Virtual map converts calls to UK helpline into slavery hotspots
Thomson Reuters Foundation Calls to Britain’s anti-slavery helpline will be mapped in real-time and show human-trafficking hotspots in a drive to raise public awareness and hone government spending to combat the crime, the social enterprise behind the project said on Monday. An online map will allow members of the public and local government bodies to see what […]