Google has officially launched its Earth Outreach program in Canada.
Google Earth Outreach helps nonprofit organizations using Google Earth and Maps. The program has highlighted climate change with Al Gore and brought Street View to the Amazon, among other projects.
The Canadian program has plans to work with aboriginal communities in BC, as well as projects involving the Boreal Forest, Arctic regions, and the David Suziuki Foundation.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine --... more
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