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 […]
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 […]
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. Akiko Harayama of the UN takes the stage for an ignite talk. Harayma’s goal is to link the humanitarian community with emergent technologies. She explains […]