This is a liveblog post of the keynote speech at the International Conference on Crisis Mapping. Kurt Jean-Charles is the founder of Solutions, a tech company based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, founded in 2001. Jean-Charles was instrumental in linking together groups and setting up crisis response models after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Jean-Charles begins by […]
Day: October 1, 2010
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Special Remarks: Dr. Choi Soon-hong
Special Remarks: Dr. Choi Soon-hong, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations & 1st Chief IT Officer, at the Conference on Crisis Mapping at Tufts University. Dr. Choi begins by explaining that late last year, a group of UN representatives and people from the ICT4Peace Foundation traveled together to discover the challenges faced by UN […]
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Ignite Talk: Nigel Snoad
This is a liveblog post from the International Conference on Crisis Mapping at Tufts University. You can also follow tweets from the event’s many open laptops at the #ICCM10 hashtag. Nigel Snoad of ICT4Peace takes the stage for an ignite talk. Snoad starts by sharing his rules for working on the ground: Rule 1: “Don’t […]