Afghanistan

Election Monitoring in Afghanistan

Attached is an article from the USAID website about how TIDES helped facilitate the quick development of a GIS tool to monitor election violence in Afghanistan during the August 09 elections.

Camp Roberts August 2009 Report

Nangarhar PEAK Experiments at Camp Roberts, August 2009

>em>Background: The Experiments Focused on Two Big Problems in Crisis Response, Stability Operations, and Building Partner Nation Capacity: (1) Facilitating Situational Awareness (SA), and (2) Sharing it Under a Wide Range of Conditions

Election Monitoring in Afghanistan

See this story at the USAID website about our efforts on integrating map data to help in disaster and development. Thanks much to our partners who participated at CP Roberts, and then made it happen in Afghanistan.

http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/gdc/
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See attached report that is taken from the website.

STAR-TIDES and the Afghanistan effort mention Government Computer News

Lin Wells' Blog, May 14, 2009

Recent STAR-TIDES Activities

The past few months have been very active for TIDES projects and the STAR-TIDES network. Since January, we’ve:
• Contributed to several projects in Afghanistan related to information, communications and renewable energy;
• Upgraded the website;
• Participated in field observations of integrated infrastructures with the Naval Postgraduate School in California;
• Engaged more closely with the US Southern Command in several areas;
• Fielded displays at the AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association) West conference in San Diego and Joint Warfighting event in Virginia Beach,
• Begun a closer integration with Human Interoperabilty studies and social network development

in Afghanistan

A friend of STAR-TIDES is over working in Afghanistan and sharing her story through a blog. Check it out here http://adventuresinjalalabad.blogspot.com

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