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Category Archives: Spotlights

Companies and organizations who are doing innovative and inspiring geo-spatial and geographically focused work are featured on UBIQUE’s Spotlight page!

28 May

FarmLogs: The easiest way to make fields more profitable

FarmLogs is a free app for tablets and smart phones that is made for farmers. The application provides multi-spectral satellite imagery of the farmers’ fields, and analysis tools. The maps can be soil maps, field rainfall, yield maps, crop health...
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28 May

Citymaps: An app that allows users to create and share personalized maps

Citymaps is a free mobile app that allows users to create social and personalized maps. Citymaps was “founded on the belief that maps should be more than just tools of navigation” (http://about.citymaps.com/), and enables users to create a personalized collection...
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28 May

Rain Water Solutions: Let the harvest begin

Rain Water Solutions is a company that sells rainwater collection containers. Rainwater harvesting is the collection of rainwater running off of roofs. Harvesting water allows you to obtain water for free, and control what is in your water. It can be...
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28 May

AWARD – Empowering African Women Scientists and Fostering a Cross-Regional Alliance

African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is a career-development fellowship program aimed at empowering and equipping African women scientists with the tools to have a stronger voice and position in the agricultural research workforce. Data has shown that...
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27 May

Gravity and The Simon Community Collaboration: Using a Mobile App to Help Homeless Find Shelter and Food

Gravity is a London-based modern tech company that normally specializes in creating large-scale digital products for businesses through mobile or web platforms. However, in 2014 they partnered with the homelessness-focused charity The Simon Community, which works to provide services and...
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27 May

Madécasse – Curbing the Global Supply Chain to Empower Cocoa Farmers in Madagascar

Madécasse is a Brooklyn-based chocolate and vanilla company that was established in 2006 by two Peace Corps volunteers who had served in Madagascar. The mission of the company is to empower Madagascar’s cocoa farmers, strengthen the local economy and protect...
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26 May

Pew’s Project Eyes on the Seas – Partnering with Satellite Applications Catapult to Combat Illegal Fishing

The Pew Charitable Trusts is a nonprofit organization established between 1948 and 1979 with the purpose of improving public policy and public awareness of environmental, health, state and consumer issues through the provision of useful data and rigorous analysis. In...
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26 May

Solar Sister: Ending energy poverty by empowering women

Solar Sister is a group that helps to provide clean energy to women and girls in Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Their mission is to eradicate energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. “We are creating deliberately woman-centered direct sales...
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22 May

Sustainable Food Trade Association: Organic leaders for sustainability

The Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA) is a peer-to-peer network and learning community for the organic food industry. Their mission is “to build the capacity of the organic food trade to transition to sustainable business models” (Sustainablefoodtrade.org).  Organic farming is based on practices...
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21 May

GeoMakers: A global community of innovators

Introducing GeoMakers Within the Geospatial community, there is an abiding interest in anything involving location, surveying and mapping, remote sensing (such as satellite or airborne imagery), 3D terrain characterization, navigation, and understanding change over time within a particular geography.  GeoMakers...
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