Monday, May 5, 2008

Session #2: Global Connectivity

General status update on the various initiatives around global connectivity - one of my favorite topics.


Jonathan Palmer from WCS, gave a demo of the ICT database, which has mapping!! You can look at a country, and see who has offices there, then get more details on these offices. Awesome! This is a perfect thing for NetHope to do.

Govi from WorldVision brought up an interesting point about the security of the connectivity data. There is lots of data in there that is really for internal use only, but it could be secured. The power of being able to see what others are doing, at a more specific level is very compelling. Matthew made the very good point that it should be a tool that agencies use on a daily basis. I'm excited to see where this goes.


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