Crowdsourcing: World Bank, Google collaboration to improve disaster preparedness

Google LatLong :: Today the World Bank and Google announced a collaborative agreement aimed at improving disaster preparedness and development efforts in countries around the world. Under this agreement, the World Bank will act as a conduit to make Google Map Maker source data more widely and easily available to government organizations in the event of major disasters, and also for improved planning, management, and monitoring of public services provision. The free, web-based mapping tool called Google Map Maker enables citizens to directly participate in the creation of maps by contributing their local knowledge.

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