U.N. Teams With Google Earth To Track Refugees, Educate Public

Can Google Earth save the world?

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees announced a new partnership with the search engine this week. The goal: To use Google's globe-mapping software to illustrate the plight of parts of the planet's population.

Google Earth, a free, virtual-globe program from the search engine company, lets users zoom in on locations around the planet. Users can also use special programs known as layers, which organizations can build to incorporate video, text or other interactive features.

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Comments

[AdamWykle]

Why doesn't the Holocaust Museum document the ongoing holocaust of the Palestinians? Google can also track down all the Palestinian refugees Israel evicted, shouldn't be so hard, their everywhere.

[browndog2]

Step up. "do no evil" no longer sufficient. do good.

[CountryBeforeParty]

How soon until Google is declared an enemy of the state?

[justice2008]

You can track the refugees but does the US care about them? Interesting entry from Jamal Dajani about Iraqi Refugees http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/what-petraeus-didnt-tell_b_96336.html