Category: TRAINING

The courses (in Italian), organised by COSPE School and ONG 2.0, two outstanding realities in Italy for training in international and non-profit cooperation, consist of two modules, that can also be attended separately, where participants will acquire the necessary skills to be able to professionally use GIS tools focusing on their use in development cooperation activities environments.

The GIS has now become an essential tool for those working in the field of international cooperation and even more so in the field of humanitarian mapping. In this course, in which only open source software will be used to ensure the full sustainability of the proposed solutions, the main methodologies of GIS territorial analysis will be illustrated in order to provide rapid and easily understandable answers and information both to project partners. and to decision makers in the form of maps and online products such as webGIS.

The possibility to provide and share a quick answer to the increasing humanitarian emergency events, as well as to support local economic development, is strictly linked to the availability of detailed and frequently updated geographic data. Over the last few years, Humanitarian Mapping has developed many powerful and accessible tools due also to the confirmation of open source philosophy; these tools have a user friendly interface and are deeply related with OpenStreetMap that represents the most important and shared worldwide geographic information database.

Three new COSPE courses on Geomatics as a tool to support International Development Cooperation projects.
Thanks to the continuous increase in the availability of open source software and open data, the various components of geomatics, such as GIS and satellite data, are increasingly used also in international cooperation projects to provide tools to support decision makers in multiple sectors in the socio-economic, environmental, rural development, health and in any sector where there is a geographical territorial component.