BirdEye is a free and open source geovisualization toolkit developed by the United Nations, Centre for Advanced Visual Analytics . BirdEye was designed to meet the needs of the UN in analyzing and presenting geospatial data. Based on the experience of developing and using the tool, BirdEye will be released as a free and open source software for community use, specifically to offer an advanced geovisualization capability to developing nations.

The purpose of the workshop is to offer guided hands-on tutorials on the development of a complete web-based geovisualization interface using BirdEye.