eyeing the Palestine-Israel conflict on your iPhone

interesting... thanks, Fast Company, for highlighting this.  This would have been a handy hand-held tool during our pilgrimage earlier this year.  it's very sobering to experience this reality on-the-ground there.

The Palestinian Conflict, Settled on Your iPhone

BY NEAL UNGERLEIDERWed Sep 22, 2010

A new app called Facts on the Ground lets users track settlements in the West Bank -- and pushes the app world into political advocacy.... Data used in the project comes from a variety of sources, with the methodology clearly explained. They range from the Israeli government (the Israeli Ministry of Defense provided the jurisdictional boundaries of settlements; population statistics were obtained from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics) to the United Nations and Shalom Achshav field researchers.