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Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri in Redlands, has been awarded the International Geographical Union’s Planet and Humanity Medal.
The award, which is given out every four years, recognizes individuals who have contributed to peace, welfare, or sustainability, according to a statement Wednesday.
Past winners include Al Gore, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev.
The IGU is an international, non-governmental, professional organization. It promotes and develops geography through research and teaching around the world.
“This award is an incredible honor for me, and I accept it on behalf of all the good work ongoing by my colleagues and our users,” Dangermond, said in the statement. “Our collective work has focused on building and applying systematic tools that help people apply geographic thinking to problem solving.
Dangermond founded Esri in 1969. It’s now one of the leading makers of geographic information system software in the world.
