Online volunteers map uncharted Ebola zones to help save lives


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Sep 2014

WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Donating to disasters used to mean writing a check to Oxfam or the Red Cross.

These days in the Internet age, for the Ebola crisis, citizens from all over the world are donating their time by going online to build maps for relief workers.

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