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Keynote: Kurt Jean-Charles of Solutions

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 […]

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Ignite Talk: Jaroslav Valuch

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. Jaroslav Valuch, of Ushahidi, explains the basis of the Ushahidi platform. Valuch notes how the crisis mapping of Haiti began 5 hours after the earthquake; […]