GIS Day 2020
Wed, Nov 18
|Virtual Zoom Event
Racial Equity | Social Justice | Sustainability Join us on November 18th and 19th as speakers from across the country share how GIS tools are being used to combat the pandemic and racial injustice.
Time & Location
Nov 18, 2020, 6:00 PM – Nov 19, 2020, 8:00 PM
Virtual Zoom Event
About the Event
GIS Day 2020 | Racial Equity, Social Justice & Sustainability
Wednesday, November 18 & 19, 2020 6pm PG and CC CLUE Event 2020 has been a challenging year. While racial inequities and the need for social justice appear to be borderless, Covid-19 has awakened us as a society to the importance of understanding geography. In the midst of a pandemic and racial injustices, the world is more digitally interconnected than ever. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enables us to have a better understanding of the spreading of the virus and its socio-economic effects on global sustainability and vulnerable populations who are grappling with systemic racism. Join us on November 18th and 19th as speakers from across the country share how GIS tools are being used to combat the pandemic and racial injustice. A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many…