Fwd: INVITATION: 6/18 4pm - Map to the Future: Tools for Plotting Global Knowledge

[John Scott]

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From: Truman Project / CNP <em...@trumanproject.org>

Subject: INVITATION: 6/18 4pm - Map to the Future: Tools for Plotting Global Knowledge

Date: June 12, 2013 9:30:51 AM EDT

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Date: Tuesday, June 18th Time: 4:00pm-5:15pm Location: One Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 333 Map to the Future: Tools for Plotting Global Knowledge Join Truman|CNP Executive Director Mike Breen and MapStory Foundation Chairman and CEO Chris Tucker as they discuss MapStory – an open educational resource for conveying community narratives to a global audience, being constantly improved as public beta – and its utility in the fields of development, diplomacy and defense. MapStory, as a complement to Wikipedia, is a new dimension to the global data commons that empowers a global user community to organize all knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. Perhaps more important, MapStory is an infrastructure for enabling “MapStorytelling” as a means of communicating important issues to a global audience. The goal is to enable any student, teacher or practitioner on Earth to tap the power of this new mode of conveying one’s stories, arrayed across geography and as they unfold over time. MapStory will become the convening point where MapStorytellers of all kinds come to publish their expressions, and to critique each others’ MapStories, leading to a consistently accumulating and improving global body of knowledge about global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history. Featuring: Chris Tucker, Chairman and CEO, MapStory Foundation You can follow the event live on Twitter and send in questions for the panelists by tweeting at @CNPonline. RSVP Learn more about the Truman Project at www.TrumanProject.org Don't want these emails? unsubscribe.