Google Earth Outreach Programme

We started working on a road show for Google, showcasing the Google Earth Outreach programme. The programme is designed to give Google Earth Pro and Sketch-up Pro to NGOs providing them with the skills and resources via Google Earth and Maps to show their work and highlight their cause to a mass audience. They can create layers and publish these on GoogleEarth, showing the areas that they work in - often war torn or poverty stricken countries.

The road show visited Amsterdam on the 31st of March, working at the NEMO Science Centre with Unicef; Hamburg on the 3rd of April at the Google offices with Greenpeace; Geneva ( as shown above) on the 8th of April at the UNHCR with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; London on the 10th of April at Google offices in Victoria, with Sir David Attenborough who launched WaterAid's and Arkive's layer (which features over 100 threatened species).

Web links:

To view the ARKive, WaterAid and Greenpeace layers go to the Global Awareness Folder in the layers panel of:

http://earth.google.com/outreach/

www.unhcr.org/googleearth