Tag: Crowdsourcing

Children Searching for MH370 & OpenStreetMap Workshop at Young University Heidelberg

On Saturday March 13th we gave an introduction to OpenStreetMap to 18 pupils participating in the KinderUni (Young University) Heidelberg. The computer pool of the Department of Geography was crowded with kids between 8 and 14 years of age. As a motivation the intro started with a typcial – and very actual – crowdsourcing task…

2014-03-28
Young Mappers: Practical OSM Intro for Children at “KinderUni” Heidelberg

OpenStreetmap for young pupils We organize a practical workshop for children between the age of 9 and 12 years within the “kids university” at Heidelberg University. The workshop will be on Saturaday 15.03.2014 at the department of Geography and the title is “Navigieren mit der offenen Weltkarte – OpenStreetMap“. It provides an introduction to Crowdsoucing…

2014-02-27
Some Impressions from the Conference on Social Media in Disaster Management in Heidelberg

Here you find some first impressions from our very successful conference on Web 2.0 and social media in disaster management that we organized in Heidelberg on October 17th. Here you find the presentations.

2013-11-07
About the “Geo” in Social Media: What about Location Based Social Networks?

The growing penetration of GPS equipped smartphones allowing users to constantly share geographic information on their current whereabouts has led the way to an augmentation of existing Social Network Sites with location-based features or the creation of new ones exclusively around geographic information. Within these Location Based Social Networks vast amounts of geographic information are…

2013-10-31
Presentations from Conference on Web 2.0 & Social Media in Disaster Management are online

The presentations from the conference “Web 2.0 and Social Media in Disaster- and Flodd Management” are online below. Most presentations are in German. We thank all speakers for making the documents available! Ronald Voigt (Landratsamt Meißen): “Kurzbericht zu Erfahrungen aus dem Hochwasser 2013” Voigt_Erfahrungsbericht Claudia Schorr / Deutsches Rotes Kreuz – Generalsekretariat Berlin: “Die Rolle…

2013-10-28
Pressemitteilung der Universität zur Fachtagung: “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”

Am 17.10.2013 findet in Heidelberg ganztags die Fachtagung “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” statt. Hierzu hat die Universität aktuell eine Pressemitteilung veröffentlicht. Noch ist Gelegenheit sich für diese spannende Veranstaltung anzumelden und an den Diskussionen teilzunehmen.

2013-10-01
Updated Programme for Conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”

The draft programme and list of presentations for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” has been updated. A very promising list of experts in Disaster Response, CrowdMapping, Social Media, GIScience etc. will gather at Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg on 17.10.2013. Further there will be two social events (icebreaker and cool…

2013-09-11
Draft Programme for conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”

A first draft list of talks and presentations for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” (17.10.2013, Heidelberg, Studio Villa Bosch) is available. In addition there will be several short presentations during the workshop-part of the event. This is a draft programme subject to change: some titles are still working titles.…

2013-09-03
GIScience for Endangered Wild Plant Species

The new project WIPs-DE (“Wildpflanzenschutz Deutschland”) is part of the National Biodiversity Strategy, which has been conducted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (“BfN”). Its goal is to preserve 15 endangered wild plant species for which Germany has a special responsibility. Germany therefore has a special responsibility for those species, because they either…

2013-08-30