Google Earth Pro unveiled for African NGOs

Google has unveiled its Google Earth Pro software to coincide with the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. The software is available through the Google Earth Outreach Program, which lets local NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) and other public-benefit organizations visualize their projects and demonstrate their impact.”With the launch of Google Earth Outreach in Africa, we are enabling nonprofit and public benefit organizations in Africa to access the knowledge and resources they need to organize their data, build their maps, tell their story through geographic visualization using Google’s Geo Tools,” said Karin Tuxen-Bettman and Tanya Keen, of Google Earth Outreach, in a blog post. Image: printmag.com. More…

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