{"id":184,"date":"2011-09-30T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/09\/30\/online-map-tracks-lra-incidents-in-central-africa\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:44:00","slug":"online-map-tracks-lra-incidents-in-central-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/09\/30\/online-map-tracks-lra-incidents-in-central-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Map Tracks LRA Incidents in Central Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lracrisistracker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-VlyDnD-2r-E\/ToYDS3_OsZI\/AAAAAAAAANM\/T_8HXKCdRWk\/s400\/LRAcrisis.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/crisis-management-with-mobile.html\">GIS has developed into a critical technology for crisis management<\/a>. The ability to synthesize spatial and non-spatial information quickly and accurately is invaluable in responding to everything from criminal incidents to natural disasters. One product that exemplifies this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lracrisistracker.com\/\">LRA Crisis Tracker<\/a>, which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lracrisistracker.com\/sites\/default\/files\/CT_presspacket.pdf\">real-time mapping platform that tracks incidents<\/a> related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lord's_Resistance_Army\">Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army<\/a> in Central Africa. Such incidents include kidnapping, killings and more. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lracrisistracker.com\/\">LRA tracker website<\/a> includes a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lracrisistracker.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Map-Methodology-and-Database%20Codebook%20v1.0.pdf\">methodology<\/a>, that among other things, notes the methods used in\u00a0verifying incidents; those incidents that are reasonably verifiable are mapped. This application is a product of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisiblechildren.com\/\">Invisible Children<\/a>, an organization that strives to use &#8220;&#8230;film, creativity, and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony&#8217;s rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in Central Africa to peace and prosperity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIS has developed into a critical technology for crisis management. The ability to synthesize spatial and non-spatial information quickly and accurately is invaluable in responding to everything from criminal incidents to natural disasters. One product that exemplifies this is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/09\/30\/online-map-tracks-lra-incidents-in-central-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}