Blog

Disaster Communications System

By |August 13th, 2013|

Moonshadow Mobile and Labels & Lists have teamed up to create a system for communication between Emergency Management providers and the public during disasters. The “Disaster Communication System” combines the power of mobile apps and the imagery of Bing Maps with a complete database of the population in the US. The DCS currently contains data on over 150 million people on 110 million addresses. In the next six months the system will be expanded to include the complete adult population data in the US.

[…]

Read More

Canvassing Young Voters

By |August 13th, 2013|

The Young Vote is an important demographic in today’s elections. Today, there are over 44 million voters under the age of 29 ( Census Bureau ) . In recent years, the percentage of young voters that are politically active has jumped, doubling, even quadrupling in some states . These new voters grew up in the age of the internet, and often have vast resources to inform themselves and each other, using social media and new online tools.

Read More

Ground Game 2: Disaster Response

By |August 12th, 2013|

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters has been on the rise for the past couple decades, and scientists are reporting this trend is likely to continue. This trend has contributed to an increase in damage to infrastructure and only complicated the efforts of emergency groups to adequately respond to these events. With wildfire season upon us and hurricane season yet to come, there is an ever increasing need to effectively respond to natural disasters. Therefore, it is important for emergency response groups to have reliable on the ground information, so that people and supplies can be sent to the correct locations, and that triage can be implemented effectively in an organized manner.

Fortunately, Web 2.0 technologies such as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) applications provided emergency groups and agencies with the tools needed to efficiently collect a massive amount of real time field data. Although these applications have many positive attributes, the lack of quality control in the data has been a long standing issue. This is where Moonshadow Mobile’s Ground Game 2 application comes in.
[…]

Read More

Using Ground Game Mobile Canvassing for the Affordable Health Care Act Outreach

By |August 8th, 2013|

Starting on October 1st hundreds of organizations will be involved in a huge outreach program to educate uninsured Americans about the Affordable Health Care Act.  Many organizations are planning to use the oldest tool in the world to reach out: visiting people door-to-door.  Health care organizations as well as insurers will have tens of thousands of canvassers in the streets knocking on doors.  One thing, however, has changed.  Some of the organizations will be using the latest mobile app technology to streamline and manage their canvassing operations.
Learn more about Ground Game mobile canvassing here.

[…]

Read More

Big Data + Open Government = Big Opportunity

By |March 23rd, 2012|

Government agencies are releasing data in quantities never seen before. At the federal level the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the EPA, the CDC, the Weather Bureau, the USGS and dozens of other agencies are releasing hundreds of millions of records annually, each. State and local government agencies are following suit. Private industry, as well, is making data more accessible than ever before. Just think about the map and image data that is available through Google Maps, Bing Maps or OpenStreetMaps. Inexpensive access to Big Data will take the availability of information to the next level.

Moonshadow COO/CTO Eimar Boesjes […]

Read More

Census Data

By |January 14th, 2011|

We’ve just added the Census 2000 data for all seven million census blocks and will add the Census 2010 block level data shortly after its release by the US Census Bureau in late March.  This makes possible quick and easy access to demographic information via an intuitive user interface that encourages analysis and better understanding of shifting trends.  It facilitates invaluable tools for planners, demographers, social scientists, architects, real estate professionals, marketers, politicians and anyone else interested in the specifics of the population of the US.

Generate images showing all of the approximately 300 million people in the US.  The data […]

Read More