Google Workshop

The first of the month is always a great day : ) but today on top of the first I had an epic email in my inbox.

Daniel has heard back from Google and after deliberation they have offered two spots for their Geo for Good Workshop. GUESS WHAT THAT MEANS!!! I'm invited to represent the Charles Darwin Foundation at their workshop being offered in September out in Mountain View, California. Although funds aren't provided for the both us, I'm currently trying to find funding through the University while encouraging them that this will benefit not only myself but the University as well as the collaboration between the Geography Department and the CDF.

The workshop presents Google's mapping tools and their application to non-profit organizations. By spatially enabling non-profit's decision making the power of data backed solutions sky rockets. Whether it be conservation efforts in Uganda or showing the impacts of genocide in Darfur, Google is proving to organizations that their tools can create positive change by taking on a geographic perspective to issues. Currently focusing on Africa, Google wants to expand their outreach to South America and what better than to start with the biologically complex Galapagos Archipelago. Their goal is to help and implement their toolsets to create a larger awareness of this sensitive ecosystem. By increasing awareness and data management it should empower better conservation management practices.

Super neat stuff, can't wait to see what comes of all of it but you have to start somewhere and this isn't a bad place to begin!


*Found this awesome photo rendering program on my computer. I haven't become that good at painting but the previous post as well as this the photos were taken on Isabela then changed to look like colored pencil drawings!