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The AWS Build-A-Business Workshop promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development in Latin America through a series of GriffinWorx workshops. Our first event is in Costa Rica on April 27-28. Register here.

Each Build-A-Business Workshop is a two-day experiential, mentor-driven event supporting the development of innovative new businesses. Working with GriffinWorx, government leadership, AWS experts, universities, and grassroots organizations, our goal is to empower new businesses and collaborate with business solution providers in the region to uncover hidden opportunities and actionable solutions that will ignite innovative thinking and behaviors.

Cloud technology can be a game changer for entrepreneurs and economies. At AWS, we want to give new businesses a boost in their business planning, demand generation, and technology innovation to bring their products or services to market.

Here are five essential actions startups can take to use AWS technology as a driver of innovation:

1. Take advantage of AWS Activate: AWS Activate is a program designed to provide startups with the resources to get started on AWS. All startups can apply for the Self-Starter Package. We also have custom Portfolio and Portfolio Plus packages for startups in select accelerators, incubators, Seed/VC Funds, and startup-enabling organizations. In addition, each startup participating in the AWS Build-A-Business Workshop will receive $1,000 in AWS promotional credits.
2. Work with the Government: Technology ecosystems require collaboration to grow and thrive. Startups should identify methods for crosscutting collaboration with governmental and non-governmental organizations. Most countries have small business advantage or incubation programs, which can include a collection of local mentors, business loans, or facilities to use as you get your business off the ground.
3. Be Curious: Learn what would ultimately make your customers successful. Dive into the details from your customers’ perspectives. What matters most to them? How can you make their experience better? As you are building your business, start with an end goal and map out the steps to get there. This can reduce surprises.
4. Think Globally: With tools like AWS LightSail, you can have technology that is offered to the largest of enterprises for the cost of a cup of coffee. AWS pricing gives customers of all sizes the opportunity to access innovative cloud services.
5. Create your “Board of Directors:” Increasing the quality and quantity of entrepreneurs requires increasing the quality and quantity of local mentors and coaches dedicated to empowering the next generation of innovators. From the start, engage with mentors you trust locally who can open doors for you. Ask them to give you constructive feedback as you get started. Local mentors and coaches can help build strong teams, design viable business models, secure customers, and generate revenue rapidly. The result is the growth of scalable and investment-ready businesses.

“At AWS we believe that investing in entrepreneurs creates a more well educated and successful workforce,” said Jeff Kratz, General Manager of Worldwide Public Sector for Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean at Amazon Web Services. “Technology innovation can drive economic development around the globe, and we are committed to supporting the entrepreneur across Latin America.”

By reducing the barriers for innovation to flourish, we are encouraging Latin America’s entrepreneurial ecosystem growth and the empowerment of innovative businesses. Take your current business or idea to the next level and register today for the AWS Build-A-Business Workshop.

Cinco consejos para construir su negocio con AWS

El taller AWS Build-A-Business Workshop promueve la innovación, el emprendimiento y el desarrollo económico en América Latina a través de una serie de talleres de GriffinWorx. Nuestro primer evento se lleva a cabo en Costa Rica, del 27 al 28 de abril. Regístrese aquí.

Cada taller de AWS Build-A-Business es un evento experimental de dos días, orientado por mentores, que apoya el desarrollo de nuevos negocios innovadores. Trabajando con GriffinWorx, liderazgo gubernamental, expertos de AWS, universidades y organizaciones de base, nuestro objetivo es capacitar a nuevos negocios y colaborar con proveedores de soluciones de negocios en la región para descubrir oportunidades ocultas y soluciones accionables que enciendan pensamientos y actuaciones innovadoras.

La tecnología en la nube puede suponer un cambio importante para los empresarios y las economías. En AWS queremos impulsar a las nuevas empresas en su planificación empresarial, generación de demanda e innovación tecnológica a la hora de llevar sus productos o servicios al mercado.

Estas son cinco acciones esenciales que las startups pueden llevar a cabo para usar la tecnología AWS como un motor de innovación:

1. Aproveche AWS Activate: AWS Activate es un programa diseñado para proporcionar a las startups los recursos necesarios para comenzar a utilizar AWS. Todas las startups pueden solicitar el paquete Self-Starter. También tenemos paquetes personalizados de Portfolio y Portfolio Plus para startups en determinados aceleradores, incubadoras, organizaciones de Capital Inicial/Capital Riesgo y organizaciones para la puesta en marcha de startups. Además, cada startup que participe en el Taller AWS Build-A-Business recibirá $ 1,000 en créditos promocionales de AWS.
2. Trabajo con el Gobierno: Los ecosistemas tecnológicos requieren colaboración para crecer y prosperar. Las startups deben identificar métodos para la colaboración con organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales. La mayoría de los países cuentan con programas de incubación o de ventaja para pequeñas empresas, que pueden incluir una colección de mentores locales, préstamos comerciales o instalaciones que se utilizarán mientras su negocio despega.
3. Sea curioso: Aprenda lo que en última instancia hará que sus clientes obtengan éxito. Profundice en los detalles desde las perspectivas de sus clientes. ¿Qué es lo que más les importa? ¿Cómo puede mejorar su experiencia? Mientras usted construye su negocio, comience con un objetivo final y planifique los pasos necesarios para llegar allí. Esto puede reducir las sorpresas.
4. Piense globalmente: Con herramientas como AWS LightSail, puede obtener la tecnología que se ofrece a las mayores corporaciones por el costo de una taza de café. Los precios de AWS permiten a los clientes de todos los tamaños la oportunidad de acceder a los innovadores servicios en la nube.
5. Cree su “Junta de Directores:” Aumentar la calidad y la cantidad de emprendedores requiere aumentar la calidad y la cantidad de mentores y entrenadores locales dedicados a capacitar a la próxima generación de innovadores. Desde el principio, comprométase con los mentores de confianza locales que pueden abrirles puertas. Pídales que le proporcionen crítica constructiva a medida que comienza. Los mentores y entrenadores locales pueden ayudar a crear equipos fuertes, diseñar modelos comerciales viables, asegurar clientes y generar ingresos rápidamente. El resultado es el crecimiento de negocios escalables y preparados para la inversión.

“En AWS creemos que invertir en los emprendedores crea una población activa más educada y capaz”, dijo Jeff Kratz, Director del Sector Publico Global para Latinoamérica, Canadá y el Caribe de Amazon Web Services. “La innovación tecnológica puede impulsar el desarrollo económico en todo el mundo y nosotros estamos comprometidos en apoyar a los empresarios en toda América Latina.”

Al reducir las barreras para que la innovación pueda florecer, estamos alentando el crecimiento de los ecosistemas empresariales de América Latina y el empoderamiento de negocios innovadores. Lleve su negocio o idea actual al siguiente nivel y regístrese hoy para el Taller AWS Build-A-Business.

Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you can always learn something new at the AWS Public Sector Summit. This year’s event, geared towards government, education, and nonprofits, is taking place June 12-14 in Washington, DC.

Save your spot today and get ready to spend three action-packed days with the innovators who are changing the world with cloud computing. You’ll go home with new strategies and techniques to accomplish new projects, maximize budgets, and achieve your mission that you didn’t think possible.

Monday, June 12: Pre-Day

New this year, we will have a pre-day with technical bootcamps. Seating is limited, so reserve your spot today. We will also be hosting technical and business pre-day workshops. Check them out here.

Tuesday, June 13 – Wednesday, June 14: General Sessions

Attend 100+ breakout sessions on topics such as DevOps, big data, Internet of Things, security and compliance, adoption models, scientific computing, open data, and more. We will have two keynotes featuring AWS leaders and global CIOs. And don’t miss our networking opportunities with partners and peers.

Watch this video to learn more and register today.

From Kenya to Colombia, Afghanistan to Indonesia, media and technology is being used in innovative ways to counter age-old drivers of conflict, ranging from election violence and inter-ethnic tension, to resource shortages and gender violence. The spread of technology is producing a transformation in conflict management and peacebuilding.

Peacetech is a new industry that brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists and data scientists to design, develop, and adapt new solutions to counter conflict and strive for peace. Technology can be used as a tool to mobilize people for peacebuilding and to create spaces for discussions. Peacetech can accelerate the development of solutions, distribute them faster, and engage more people in generating ideas and collaborative problem-solving.

For example, virtual reality (VR) has been used to generate empathy by creating brief but powerful immersive experiences, allowing the user to internalize a message. Analytics has been used in the field to assess cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions related to conflict, providing new information and data visualization for decision makers. And social platforms, such as Skype, have been used to connect people worldwide with tutors to teach new languages, while providing empowering work opportunities to refugees.

C5 and PeaceTech Lab, along with support from AWS, are collaborating on the PeaceTech Accelerator, the first major international peacetech program powered by cloud innovation and dedicated to scaling startups around the world. The mission of the PeaceTech Accelerator is to produce innovative technology that manages, mitigates, predicts, or prevents conflicts.

“Today, people can send pictures, money, and information around the world with the click of a button,” said Sheldon Himelfarb, CEO, PeaceTech Lab. “Even in places experiencing some of the worst violence on earth, I see cell phones charging and air time selling. It’s up to each and every one of us to decide whether we use these tools to prolong conflict or build peace. The Accelerator is the embodiment of our commitment to support entrepreneurs who are dedicated to using their talents and technology for good.”

The PeaceTech Accelerator provides the mentorship and training needed to scale both for-profit and not-for-profit peacetech initiatives rapidly, securely, and cost-effectively to produce technology that can be used as platforms for peace.

Mentor sessions with AWS Solutions Architects at the PeaceTech Lab.

Learn more about the PeaceTech Lab and how to apply for the PeaceTech Accelerator here.

The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) currently hosts one of the largest records of human cultural evolution in the world. With a mission to collect, preserve, study, document, and present Kenya’s cultural and natural heritage, NMK needed to find a way to digitize its artifacts and open up its collection to engage the world for exploration and research.

Digital Divide Data (DDD), a nonprofit specializing in digitization, data sciences, and social research services, along with AWS and Intel will work with NMK to digitize one of the largest collections of Archeology and Paleontology in the world, as well as create an interactive website that will serve as a virtual museum, giving more people access to these.

As the first phase of the project, DDD, AWS, and Intel will digitize 10,000 of the most valuable artifacts housed in their Archeology and Paleontology collections at the Nairobi National Museum.  These will form the basis for open access digital archives database and a virtual museum intended to lend greater visibility to these priceless artifacts for the purposes of research and education.

The Archaeology Collection includes early human’s technology and technological evolution dating back >2.5 million years. The Paleontology Collection houses millions of fossils dating back to the Oligocene era (33 – 23 million years). This collection includes the entire natural fossil heritage of Kenya and houses some of the best preserved hominid specimens.

This project will enable NMK to achieve the following objectives:

• Mitigating the risk of losing valuable information and records related to many of these premier artifacts and specimens due to decay and passage of time through digital preservation.
• Facilitating research on human evolution using the digital archive and database as a catalyst in training the next generation of researchers.
• With a central digital repository of collections, the museum will have the information available to curate and develop new exhibits.
• These assets will enable the museum to engage digitally with other institutions around the world.

Technology is critical to develop the next generation of approaches to collecting, managing, preserving, and engaging with cultural assets. AWS and Intel are committed to collaborate with custodians and caretakers working within our beloved cultural institutions to create new, dynamic museum experiences that drive individuals around the world to engage with history and the arts.

Security is our number one priority, and at AWS, we have comprehensive security capabilities to protect virtually any workload. Through AWS Security services, we provide the opportunities to protect your data, monitor security-related activity, and receive automated responses. This gives our customers the ability to increase their security posture in the cloud, deliver more agile IT, and lower costs. With that in mind, here are six advantages of cloud security.

1. Integration of compliance and security – You can leverage AWS activity monitoring services to detect configuration change and security events, even integrating AWS activity with your existing monitoring solutions for simplified compliance reporting. We provide compliance reports based on managing thousands of security controls inherited through the AWS platform, making it easier and faster for you to meet security and compliance requirements.
2. Economies of scale apply – When organizations submit security requirements, we incorporate their feedback into the AWS security platform. All customers benefit from AWS security innovation and improvements made from customer feedback. Last year, we released hundreds of security and compliance related features and service enhancements.
3. Customer focus on systems and applications – The cloud reduces the total “security surface area” that customer security experts need to manage themselves. Our shared responsibility model allows you to focus your expertise on the higher level operating system and application security management. You retain control of what security you choose to implement to protect your own content, applications, systems and networks, no differently than you would for applications in an on-premises data center.
4. Visibility, homogeneity, and automation – With the cloud, you get to choose from a rich but more homogeneous set of infrastructure and capabilities. You can control down to the operating system image level what should be used in your environment. Using cloud orchestration capabilities like AWS CloudFormation, your security experts can validate a pre-defined configuration of systems and then those can be “stamped out” with all security features enabled and in place. For example, you can leverage AWS Quick Starts to automate the configuration of AWS resources to meet many compliance requirements.
5. Cloud platforms as “systems containers” – Cloud platforms are “systems containers” that surround traditional systems and provide more insight into their behavior and functioning, including security issues, providing a new kind of “defense in depth.” The “container” that runs your operating systems and applications is programmable, monitorable, and reactive software. For example, without knowing anything about the internal workings of your application, once you know its normal network behavior, you can set monitoring alarms at the infrastructure level that will trigger a smart response to any unusual activity.
6. Cloud, big data, security – With low-cost access to massive amounts of storage and processing capacity, our customers use the cloud to secure the cloud (they run big data analytics on security data and log data, which provides more insight into their security posture and results in a much faster remediation of issues). Leverage storage and processing power of the cloud to find the security event needles in the cloud haystack.

With the speed of innovation and increasing scale, the cloud story will only get better. AWS will continue to raise the bar in our efforts to provide our customers with an IT infrastructure and security services that deliver agility, visibility, scalability, and integrity. Our track record of operational integrity along with our rapid pace of innovation have gained the trust of government mission owners by delivering secure, agile, and cost-effective IT services.

At last night’s American Council on Renewable Energy’s (ACORE) 15th Anniversary Gala in Washington D.C, Amazon received the Corporate Innovation and Industry Leadership Award in recognition of Amazon’s commitment to renewable energy. Spanning retail, devices, media, cloud computing and more, Amazon is pioneering new products and services on behalf of customers to build a more sustainable world.

Amazon has a broad push for renewable energy across the business and is a corporate member of ACORE, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the renewable energy sector through market development, policy changes, and financial innovation.

Accepting the ACORE award on behalf of Amazon was Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector for Amazon Web Services.

“At Amazon, we are putting our scale and our inventive culture to work on sustainability and protecting our environment, said Teresa. “We are honored to receive the award and looking forward to continuing to innovate and deliver on our commitment to running our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible.”

Amazon and Sustainability

Amazon is a company of builders, and we have been at work building innovative, sustainable solutions for our business.

Amazon is undertaking several clean energy initiatives across the company. Examples of our projects include a 253 MW wind farm – our largest to date – in Scurry County, TX, wind and solar farms in four states to add renewable energy to the electrical grids that supply AWS data centers, green rooftops for our corporate offices, rooftop solar installations across 50 of our fulfillment centers by 2020, and the District Energy Project that uses recycled energy for heating offices in Seattle. Learn more about these projects here.

In addition to the environmental benefits inherently associated with running applications in the cloud, AWS has made a lot of progress towards the long-term commitment to power the global AWS infrastructure with 100% renewable energy. We exceeded our goal of 40% renewable energy by the end of 2016, and we have set a new goal to be powered by 50% renewable energy by the end of 2017.

AWS has funded ten wind and solar PPAs to increase the overall amount of renewable energy available on the grids that serve AWS data centers. These ten renewable energy projects will deliver more than 2.6 million MWh of renewable energy annually into the electric grids that supply current and future AWS Cloud data centers in Virginia and Ohio. The electricity produced from these projects is enough to power the equivalent of nearly 240,000 U.S. homes annually.

Learn more about how AWS is working to achieve its goal of 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint and learn more about Amazon’s sustainability efforts here.

Each day, nonprofit organizations around the world are focused on achieving their missions. Whether they fight for the environment, work to achieve medical breakthroughs, preserve the arts, or focus on building social good, with Amazon Web Services nonprofits are able to run lean, freeing them to be fast, agile, and even global, while still being efficient with IT spend, paying only for what they use so they can focus resources on their important work.

Tens of thousands of nonprofits and NGOs worldwide use Amazon Web Services to build highly available, scalable websites, host core business and employee-facing systems, and manage donor outreach and fundraising efforts – keeping them mission centric. This helps nonprofit organizations pave the way for innovation and, ultimately, make the world a better place through technology.

Using AWS, nonprofits:

• Can scale up during annual days of giving, and then scale down on demand in order to have their website available during important fundraising days.
• They can cost-effectively reach donors and manage donor relationships with reliable, easy to use services.
• Organizations can find solutions to the world’s most pressing problems through open data sources and initiatives that aggregate cutting-edge research that further helps the organization.

Running a nonprofit organization on AWS means seamless and reliable technology that allows for a more meaningful, personal, and profitable interaction.

Watch this video to learn more:

Sign up to get started today at aws.amazon.com/npo.

RootsTech, hosted by FamilySearch.org, is the largest family history conference in the world. “As the name implies, technology is key to achieving our mission and is core to the tools that make the family history industry more effective,” said Bruce Band, VP of Community Outreach in the Records and Partners Division at FamilySearch.org.

Technology, such as cloud computing, has made collecting meaningful family stories for future generations simple. The AWS Cloud has powered many helpful genealogical tools, bridging the gap between generations and distance.

“If you think about major disruptors in the family history industry, they include technologies such as microfilm, the Internet, and now cloud computing, “ said Bruce. “Developers can now create a product and extend it to a world audience with ease using AWS. It is a game changer for the family history industry and it is taking things to the next level in terms of connecting people around the world.”

Innovator Showdown

Last week at RootsTech, we sponsored the Innovator Showdown. Innovators from around the world competed for $190,000 in prizes and pitched their innovative ideas. Watch the recording of the Innovator Showdown here.

During this year’s Showdown, competitors pitched diverse apps and sites, ranging from photo and video documentation to browsing and data tools.

The 2017 winners included:

• 1st Place: OldNews USA – Making Family History Mobile
• 2nd Place: QromaTag – Add your story to any photo using your iPhone and your voice.
• 3rd Place: Double Match Triangulator – Forging New Frontiers in DNA Analysis
• People’s Choice: Kindex – Search Every Word

Congratulations to the winners! Check out the innovative ideas submitted by the winners and finalists and how they use new technologies here.

The winners received AWS promotional cloud credits to expand the global reach of their products, using AWS services. Other customers are leveraging AWS for genomics analysis, search functionality, mobile development, facial recognition, and much more.

Learn how other nonprofits and NGOs use the AWS Cloud to save costs, improve scale, and generate outcomes.

We are already looking forward to our eighth annual AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. This year’s event will take place June 12-14, 2017 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Registration will be open soon, so stay tuned for more information on how to save your spot.

As we begin the countdown to the Summit, we wanted to give you a glimpse into what you can expect this June.

What to Expect in 2017

• Over 100+ breakout sessions on topics, such as DevOps, Big Data, Internet of Things, security and compliance, adoption models, scientific computing, open data, and more.
• Two keynotes with a star line up of CIOs. View some of the keynote videos from the 2016 event.
• Direct access to AWS technologists
• Pre-Day with bootcamps and deep dive workshops
• Networking opportunities with partners and peers

Mark your Calendar

Mark your calendar for one of the largest gatherings of public sector technology leaders in 2017. More details below!

Date: June 12-14, 2017

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center – 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC 20001

This week at SatSummit, DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced a push for open data imagery to solve challenging problems that involve location, mapping, and intelligence. We spoke with Kevin Bullock, Director of Business Development at DigitalGlobe and Cristiano Giovando, Director of Technology of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Check out the below Q&A to learn about what they are doing to make imagery open to the public and what impact this can have on the world.

Q: Can you tell us a little about DigitalGlobe and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap?

Kevin: DigitalGlobe focuses on earth imagery and information about our changing planet. We own and operate a constellation of satellites that collect new high-resolution imagery daily. And we have the technology to extract data from that imagery, which gives our customers powerful insights to make decisions with confidence. We work with organizations, companies and governments worldwide to solve challenging problems related to economic, social and environmental changes that occur across the Earth.

Cristiano: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) applies the principles of open source and open data sharing to humanitarian response and economic development. HOT is a global organization known for its ability to rapidly coordinate volunteers to map places impacted by disasters. Without DigitalGlobe as a key partner providing satellite imagery, there would not be HOT as we know it.

Q: Can you explain to us the purpose of the Open Data Program at DigitalGlobe?

Kevin: After a disaster, our objective is to equip every organization and every person responding or helping with the best geospatial information for the impacted area. This means both the information before the disaster and after. By creating a specific website for the Open Data Program and providing the imagery license, it gives the disaster response community clarity and confidence that DigitalGlobe will be there to support them, no matter what. With all of the chaos and uncertainty after an event, this seems like a simple thing to do where we can remove some of the chaos.

Q: How do you decide what imagery to open up to the public?

Kevin: We actually wrote a protocol that considers many factors of the disaster, including how quickly it happened and its impact, the number of people affected, and the ability of the local authorities to handle and respond to the disaster. We also recognize that each disaster is unique, so we gather as much data and information as possible to make the decision.

Q: Can you give us examples where open access to DigitalGlobe imagery has made an impact?

Cristiano: For over seven years, DigitalGlobe has been enabling HOT to make an impact through crowdsourced humanitarian mapping. Following the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community rallied together for the first time to map a large disaster-affected area. Without commercial satellite imagery providers making high-resolution satellite imagery openly available for anyone to trace, it would not have been possible to map the entire affected area in such a short time. The output data provided critical navigation, damage assessment, and reference information to responders on the ground. Open imagery has also been a critical resource for humanitarian mapping responses after large disasters such as the Ebola outbreak in 2014, the Nepal earthquakes in 2015, and recently Hurricane Matthew in Haiti in 2016. Open imagery has also made a significant impact in ongoing efforts to reduce malaria in places like Mozambique, Zambia, and Swaziland; HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in Tanzania and Kenya; and improving health commodity supply management in Tanzania.

Kevin: The typhoon that hit the Philippines in 2013 was devastating. Given how remote these islands are and their fragile infrastructure, our imagery made a huge impact. We saw villages that had been wiped away from the storm surge, so we used archive imagery to quantify how many structures had been impacted. I’ll never forget seeing the words “HELP US” spelled out in stones in front of a church.

Q: How do you expect others to build on top of or otherwise use the data you’re making available?

Cristiano: Open imagery leads to more open data. The HOT and OSM communities use that imagery to create a map that is available under an open license. This derivative data is used primarily for disaster response efforts, but other typical applications include navigation, disaster risk modelling, recovery, resilience planning and economic development projects. HOT and its partners also started using DigitalGlobe’s satellite imagery in a mobile phone application called MapSwipe that allows volunteers to rapidly screen large areas and identify specific features of humanitarian interest. This method allows responders to assess an entire region for potential disaster damage and prioritize further detailed mapping.

Kevin: The beauty of open data is the fact that it is open. So we often see developers, tech companies and creative citizens coming up with innovations using open data in a disaster response and humanitarian situation; something that they normally would not have access to or even know about!

Q: These imagery files can be quite large, and there can be a lot of them. How has AWS helped you make these files available to anyone in the world?

Cristiano: Following the Nepal earthquake, DigitalGlobe made crisis response imagery available for download via Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The scalability and high availability of AWS’s storage service provides an unparalleled advantage over traditional single-server download endpoints. HOT has been able to download and publish imagery for volunteers to start mapping within hours of it being posted on S3. In previous years, data transfer has often been the bottleneck in many humanitarian response mapping projects. On several occasions, physical hard drives had to be shipped or hand delivered to those who needed access to imagery. But now, through S3, it is replicated across regions within minutes and can be accessed by anyone.

Q: What is the best way for people who are looking for the imagery to access it?

Kevin: All the open imagery and associated vector data will be available on DigitalGlobe’s Open Data Program website. You can either download individual images or do one bulk download for an event, and all previous open data events are available as well. Also, if you want to sign up for email alerts for new activations or your organization is interested in becoming an official program partner, you can contact us through the site. We’re looking to get these data into the hands of people who need it during these crises, so any partner organizations that can help us further disseminate the data are welcome to join.

Thank you to Kevin and Cristiano for sharing their perspective on the importance of open data imagery. Learn more here.