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GeoWeb and crisis management: issues and perspectives of volunteered geographic information

Roche, Stephane Propeck-Zimmermann, Eliane Mericskay, Boris

Mapping, and more generally geopositioning, has become ubiquitous on the Internet. This democratization of geomatics through the GeoWeb results in the emergence of a new form of mapping based on Web 2.0 technologies. Described as Web-mapping 2.0, it is especially characterized by high interactivity and geolocation-based contents generated by users....

Anglo American media representations, traditional medicine, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: from muti killings to garlic c...

Bishop, Kristina Monroe

Published in GeoJournal

Before 2000 limited media coverage of medicine in South Africa existed, yet much of what did exist centered primarily on traditional healing practices. It was not until the introduction of HIV/AIDS that traditional medicine was seen as having some potential value to the population, but only so far as the ability of traditional healers to direct pat...

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GeoWeb and crisis management: issues and perspectives of volunteered geographic information

Anglo American media representations, traditional medicine, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: from muti killings to garlic c...