Poster FOSS4G 2010:
Engineering Without Borders Spain (EWB) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that supports multidisciplinary community-driven development projects worldwide. With the help of professionals, teachers and students EWB works towards ensuring universal access to basic services by strengthening people’s abilities and assuring social changes always respecting local culture and traditions. Our areas of cooperation include: water and governance, urban services, citizenship, energy supply and capacity building. This poster shows how EWB is benefiting from the latest Open Source Geographical Information Technologies, to better manage information derived from Water and Sanitation Programmes in El Salvador and Tanzania. In this context, two different Web applications have been developed with the objective of facilitating map visualization, query information of a selected study area and editing of cartographic data by technicians. Moreover, this work has been fully undertaken by postgraduate students with the supervision of volunteers from the NGO.