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Friday April 20, 2007

Google technology teaching on Darfur

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google are working together to increase awareness about the genocide in Darfur.

Anyone using Google Earth — a program that gives up-close aerial images of the globe — can now zoom in on thousands of homes, schools and mosques that have been burned to the ground. Photographs also show refugee camps and wounded adults and children.

Google Earth provided the satellite maps. The museum then created related text, like statistics and eyewitness testimonies and images, to accompany the maps.

“Crisis in Darfur” is the first project in the museum’s “Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative,” which visually represents emerging crises that may lead to genocide or other crimes against humanity.

To download Google Earth and the Crisis in Darfur content, go to www.ushmm.org/googleearth.

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