From the monthly archives: June 2010

Have you ever traveled out of the state you live in and found yourself saying, “Wow, people in this state are terrible at driving.” Now you can see if your claim was appropriate after looking at the GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test.

GMAC Insurance has been conducting an annual survey where respondents take [...]

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Today I’ll be attending ThinkSocial and PepsiCo’s The #Promise conference which is an initiative focusing on the use of social media and technology to engage companies in working with people to address global challenges.

Social responsibility and public good  are ingrained throughout FortiusOne’s entire company and solutions. [...]

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It has been great to see a dialog emerge on open data surrounding ESRI’s merging of Geodata.gov and Data.gov. I think Marten’s post title sums up my general consensus – “confusion”.

Every person I’ve talked to and every post on the topic has a different version of the story. [...]

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At FortiusOne we have a history of mapping elections. Previously in this blog Sean Gorman discussed “Leveraging Open Data for Transparency” during the 2009 Afghanistan elections. This blog also looked at rates of violence and its potential impact on voter turnout in Afghanistan as well. We also provided a dashboard for the [...]

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Today I was on a panel at the InterAction Forum, which is a conference for member organizations within InterAction.  InterAction is an coalition of NGOs with over 180 member organizations.   In the past few months at FortiusOne we’ve been assisting them in tracking their projects and sharing their geographic data. The panel [...]

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Ever since the news broke that ESRI recieved a Whitehouse contract to:

merge a federal website that publishes geospatial information with Data.gov, the government’s depot for downloadable data sets, the company’s president said on Thursday.

California-based ESRI began last summer tying Data.gov to Geodata.gov, the geospatial information gateway, said company President Jack Dangermond in [...]

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The Understanding Risk Forum is this week in Washington D.C. at the World Bank. The intent of the event is to increase understanding of risk, make it more measurable and work on managing it better. FortiusOne is there in full force with myself and Bill Greer manning a booth in Innovation Fair and [...]

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As some of you may have noticed, GeoCommons had an overly extended downtime yesterday. We deploy regular updates to GeoCommons as part of our continued feature improvements to the underlying GeoIQ platform. This update [...]

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