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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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ICCM 2010: Opening Remarks

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 […]