Apr 11 2008
Google Earth takes you inside refugee camps
Google Earth takes you inside refugee camps
Things like this make me feel a little better about the idea that Google is taking over the world.
But the project seems most likely to revolutionize refugee work, if it does so at all, by graphically illustrating the location and realities of the camps to populations that have little firsthand experience of UNHCR’s work. Francoise Jaccoud, a public information officer at UNHCR, summed up this possibility when he said, “The impact of Google Earth is limited only by our imagination and it can, indeed, dramatically reduce the distance between refugees and the public.”
