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 #ICCM2010 hashtag. Chris Phillips of Map Action takes the stage for an ignite talk. “All disasters are different: Haiti was especially so,” notes Phillips, remarking on both […]
Today I’ll be liveblogging the International Conference on Crisis Mapping at Tufts University. You can also follow tweets from the event’s many open laptops at the #ICCM2010 hashtag. Patrick Meier greets the audience, which is over 200 strong. “The Crisis Mappers network now has almost 1,000 members in 30 countries; about 100 organizations are represented […]
This morning, in the New York Times of all places, is a good article highlighting Syria’s pervasive Internet censorship. The premise is this: a disturbing (though not particularly graphic, as the Times suggests) video of teachers beating their young students is put up on Facebook (which Facebook, shockingly but to their credit, doesn’t remove for […]