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  • Drupal development and Web hosting by Koumbit.org in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Koumbit is a not for profit company in Montreal providing NGOs with web services and programming.

  • Google - public data
    Publicly available data sets in the 'Google public data explorer'

  • Is it OK to neglect disaster in Pakistan because it’s not a tourist destination? If not, see below
    Laura Freschi writes a great roundup on recent research correlating or interpreting the mismatch between various disaster responses by governments and individuals, as well as by the news media.

  • Good Intentions Are Not Enough » Blog Archive » The DOs and DON’Ts of Disaster Donations
    A comprehensive list of advice to individuals on considering and planning donations for humanitarian action, specifically in response to disasters.

  • Migration Could Triple Populations in Some Wealthy Nations
    Based on Gallup's massive survey of 148 countries with 350,000 interviews conducted 2007-2010. This article highlights the potential migration patterns if adult citizens were able to permanently move to their favorite destination country.

  • CSP Global Conflict Trends
    Related to the Polity IV project and the Armed Conflict and Intervention (ACI) project, the Center for Systemic Peace published this study of conflict trends. It highlights the Polity observations of a transition from autocracies to anocracy and democracy, but also a strong decline in the number of states with armed conflicts. Interstate warfare plunged to its lowest post-WWII levels, while civil wars decreased from their all-time highs in 1991 by 60%. The UN are credited for the low number of interstate conflicts but are said to have failed utterly for domestic armed conflicts.

  • Patrick Micka » HowTo: Sync Google Reader With Delicious Bookmarks
    Patrick wrote a small script to import shared items from Google Reader into delicious. The php script needs to run from a server though, diminishing the number of possible users for the time being.

  • Reviews of 12 Volt Solar Battery Chargers — Avoid Over 290,000 tonnes of CO2 Each Year Using Solar Power
    Another private review site on solar panels and charging systems.

  • Uganda: Survey of War Affected Youth – Chris Blattman
    Source data and some general information about the SWAY research project in Northern Uganda on former child soldiers. The principal researchers were Jeannie Annan, Chris Blattman, Khristopher Carlson, and Dyan Mazurana.

  • Innovations for Poverty Action
    IPA is a nonprofit NGO that "creates and evaluates solutions to social and development problems, and works to scale up successful ideas through implementation and dissemination to policymakers, practitioners, investors, and donors." Founded in 2002 by Yale's Dean Karlan, the organization uses randomized controlled trials to measure the impact of a broad spectrum of development projects.

  • johnetherton.com » Blog Archive » Harper
    Johnetherton writes about a "road trip" from Monrovia to Harper, Liberia, and shares some descriptions of the surprisingly bad road conditions during the dry season, as well as some practical advise on what worked and paid off.

  • radicalcartography
    Bill Rankin's original graph overlapping 2000 global population data with their geographic latitude. It doesn't cite sources and has drawn more criticism since it was highlighted in several blogs recently.

  • HealthMap | Global health, local information
    HealthMap combines various data sources (including WHO and MSM news media) to provide a comprehensive database of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effects. Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location on Google Maps.

  • Resource Finder (Pakistan)
    Google's approach to providing a visual database resource during humanitarian crises, first launched during the August 2010 Pakistan floods.

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    Population data mapped globally to indicated density and distribution along regions. By Columbia's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), the Gloabl Rural-Urban Mapping Project.