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About South Sudan Online

A ReliefWeb Cooperative Information Exchange

Edited by Department of State, Washington, DC

 

  1. This effort is being developed by the US Department of State as a benefit to the UNDHA ReliefWeb project and for the consideration of DHA and NGO's, private corporations, International Organizations and other governments interested in humanitarian relief, many of whom have helped make this project possible; but Sudan Online is an experimental US Government initiative.

  2. This site contains many images of maps of Sudan and information on a prototype off-line mapping service called REMAPS being designed by the US Department of State and various NGO's for the benefit of relief workers. Easy, free, essential mapping for any disaster. The concept was demonstrated at World Aid '96 in Geneva and at the 1996 ReliefWeb Conference.

  3. Also included is a special free email service for relief workers involved in the Sudan crisis. If you want to use only one email address to send urgent messages to all other emergency workers, consider this service. This service is also useful for posting notices of meetings but only members of the humanitarian relief community may join.

  4. These and other organizations have provided images to South Sudan Online: USAID, US Department of State, AICF/France, ADRA, AirServ, ARC and Save the Children UK. Technical assistance or advice was provided by Volunteers in Technical Assistance, CARE, Nairobi, CRS, the University of Texas, USAID, Medecins sans Frontieres USA, the British Museum, the University of Durham, UK.

  5. Though the source of information is always cited, no certification as to accuracy is made. The editors have tried to find the best available maps. Users should also contact appropriate local and United Nations officials. New images are being added on a regular basis, and we are also interested in obtaining pictures of actual operations, but no military information.

  6. Most maps are in English, but we will also post maps in Arabic or other languages.

  7. Watch for changes being made almost every day.

  8. Users are reminded that today's humanitarian relief map is tomorrow's essential reference tool. Don't just file your maps and status reports to a cabinet drawer or the organization funding your work. Share them with a major national library like the Library of Congress or the British Museum and then let us post the information.

  9. Bibliographies are also being posted. Today you will find a bibliography of maps available at the U.S. Library of Congress and will soon find a link to a special bibliography of maps on Sudan available at the University of Texas (some of which are available via the Internet). This was prepared as a reference aid to relief workers AND WILL BE ADDED TO. It is also a reminder that excellent, development-relevant and emergency-relevant maps often reside in major national collections. Every map in the LC bibliography is available for inspection at the Library of Congress. Simply contact the library staff. In addition, we encourage you to add maps to the bibliography, thus creating an effective, international bibliography of Sudan maps.

  10. Pay special attention to the section on REMAPS, an off-line field mapping service for relief workers. The U.S. Government demonstrated this concept at World Aid 1996 and the 1996 ReliefWeb Conference. A preliminary version was also presented to relief workers in South Sudan, Khartoum, Nairobi, North America and at the 1995 ReliefWeb Conference. In addition, International Medical Corps, Doctors Without Borders, USA and other NGO's have given REMAPS significant support. The concept of REMAPS is to develop a standard kit that could be provided to relief workers, enabling them to produce practical maps in the field that could be used for analytical work.

 

 

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Edit Date Thursday, August 12, 1999 Washington, DC

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