Graphic: GIS Makes Discrimination Black and White
Analysis, Balance, Citizen-Centered, Geospatial, Leadership-Integrity, Policies-Harmonization, Political
The Revolution Will Be Mapped
GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like.
Bob Burtman | December 28, 2009
The institute's maps played a vital role in a federal jury's decision last year to award the excluded Coal Run residents almost $11 million in damages from the city of Zanesville and Muskingum County. The supporting evidence was strong on its own: African-American residents without water had made repeated requests over a period of almost 50 years to remedy the inequity, to no avail. Instead, they had to haul water from the plant or pump it from wells contaminated with sulphur and oil from old mining operations. In the interim, Zanesville had extended its water lines on numerous occasions to new, predominantly white developments that were farther away from the water plant than Coal Run.
Bob Burtman is a freelance investigative reporter and researcher who lives with his wife and animals in the woods outside of Hillsborough, N.C. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards for his stories on the…
Phi Beta Iota: This is precisely what we have been looking for–the use of information as a non-violent means of achieving equity. This is HUGE in our view, and a tiny micorcosm of how We the People in the aggregate will sort out the massive concentration of wealth that has been made possible by corruption, fraud, waste, and abuse all condoned and made possible by the Republican and Democratic parties in collusion with Wall Street (and especially Goldman Sachs).
Search: world map with 8 conflicts
Geospatial, Leadership-Integrity, Searches, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, Tribes
o the left is the map we created when it was clear the USA was going to invade Iraq and blow what should have been the surgical demise of Osama Bin Laden. This slide was created for and used in the opening briefing to the SES course on national security at the Western Management Development Center, and in 19 briefings around the country to the American Committees on Foreign Relations (ACFR).
The only really decent conflict map, now out of production, is Berto Jongman's World Conflict & Human Rights Map also available in a Simplified World Conflict Map.
Notes: If bin Laden could have asked his maker for the most helpful possible American reaction to 9-11, he could not have done better than the Bush Administration’s ill-considered conventional military attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. The US is now an occupying force in Iraq, and in Afghanistan it has lost control of the entire country, where under US “non-control” the opium crop has doubled, enriching all the warlords, who will be almost impossible to dislodge without resuming combat operations. We have started a six-front 100-year war.
To the right is a later version used in private briefings.
Graphic: CD (Congo) 1:50,000 Combat Chart Shortfalls
Advanced Cyber/IO, Geospatial
East View Cartographic, the single most extraordinary geospatial support service in the commercial sector, created the attached without color; the G-2 of United Nations Forces Eastern Congo prioritized their needs (the West still does not have 1:50,000 combat chart with contour line coverage for most of the Third World, i.e. the bulk of the ungovernable unstable zones). It was this single graphic that got the Dutch government to approve a US$3 million expenditure to meet the needs of UN forces in the Eastern Congo.
NOTE: Not a single map existed. Green above represents the least urgent, yellow and red the more urgent.
Graphic: Life 102–Open Everything
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Citizen-Centered, Collection, Earth Orientation, Geospatial, History, ICT-IT, Innovation, Languages-Translation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Graphic: Wheel of Co-Creation
Balance, Citizen-Centered, Earth Orientation, Geospatial, History, Languages-Translation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Graphic: Earth Systems
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Earth Orientation, Geospatial, History, ICT-IT, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats
