Supporting Disease Eradication from Two Continents
How GIS expertise and local voices maximize program impact for The Carter Center and Ethiopia’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program
DevGlobal and NASA’s Six-Year Initiative to Bring Together Humanitarians and Scientists
NASA Lifelines launched today to accelerate and improve humanitarian decision-making using Earth science. Led by the services firm DevGlobal, in partnership with NASA, Lifelines is a $6 million, six-year effort to build community across humanitarians and scientists. Across the community, NASA Lifelines will enable unexpected collaborations to foster innovations with Earth science and provide mission-critical … Read more
Client Success Story: McGovern Foundation
DevGlobal’s Jeff Pituch and James Haithcoat recently lead an effort to capture the processes and lessons learned by each grant partner organization of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation’s 2022 Climate + Data Accelerator Program.
DevGlobal at St. Louis’s T-REX Geospatial Innovation Center
DevGlobal Principal Consultant, James Haithcoat, spoke at St. Louis’s T-REX Nonprofit Technology Innovation Center as part of their monthly geospatial speaker series, Geosaurus Unleashed recently. James spoke to who and what DevGlobal is, focusing specifically on the RAMP project DevGlobal led, in partnership with the World Health Organization. DevGlobal has partnered with T-REX as a … Read more
PepsiCo Launches Greenhouse Accelerator Program with the Support of DevGlobal and Atomic Brand Labs
In support of PepsiCo’s end-to-end transformation strategy for sustainability in the agricultural sector, DevGlobal is facilitating the launch of the second edition of the Greenhouse Accelerator Program: MENA Sustainability Edition. In partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) and Food Tech Valley, the program has opened for applications from … Read more
DevGlobal Leads Gates Foundation Geospatial Impact Evaluations CoP
DevGlobal leads community of practice for geospatial impact evaluations with award from Gates Foundation DevGlobal will support a four-year, $4.74 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to broaden the use of Earth Observation to evaluate agricultural and climate investments. Led by William & Mary’s AidData, the aptly named GeoField initiative is an … Read more
Client Impact Letter – 2023
DevGlobal community, 2022 was a year of immense growth. Growth for us meant focusing in on our strengths and doubling down on our commitments that set us apart. Half of our clients are leveraging our geospatial services in service of their health and food security missions. Our team is growing to meet the increasing demand … Read more
Negotiating a Humanitarian Data License
Get the Most Data for your Dollar – How the Pros Negotiate a Humanitarian License Fight for health and climate equity by mastering the fine print Just a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the government of the West African country of Sierra Leone was able to use geospatial data to identify at-risk … Read more
Modern Food Systems: Role of Digital and Regenerative Agriculture
Agricultural practices and food systems play a major role in many pressing challenges, including climate change, nutritional security, and ensuring sustainable livelihoods for Africa’s rapidly growing population. Many long-standing agricultural practices compete with natural environments, deteriorate soils and habitats, reduce biodiversity, and affect water supply and quality–much of which has led to degradation of Africa’s … Read more
What Does GIS Day Mean to Us?
For those of us working in geospatially focused organizations, the applicability of using geographic information systems (GIS) to solve the world’s most pressing problems is clear. There are communities in desperate need of support, and true impact is contingent on strong partnerships and in-depth collaboration. Employing user-centric design within an ethical framework to ensure the … Read more
Producing Global Training Dataset Labels
The ramp project is working with the World Health Organization to map healthcare buildings, a tool that will support humanitarian emergency response teams in the likelihood of the next pandemic. In this blog post, we discuss the labeling process, answering a fundamental question: How can we ensure generating high-quality labels working with remote teams?
A Perfect Machine Learning Training Data Set?
“What is good enough” is a living question that has evolved over the span of the ramp project. It starts at the end, in defining our use case and engaging end-users as advisors to get an idea of how the model outputs will be utilized. Working backward in this way has allowed us to craft our approach to establishing training data guidance and quality assurance . . .