When I called David Kobia to launch the Ushahidi platform two hours after the earthquake, our priority was to map all relevant reports in near real-time and to do so around the clock. This meant monitoring Tweets, Facebook groups, list serves, emails, online news media, blogs, radio and television programs, and now incoming SMS. That’s [...]
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GeoTime by Oculus is a software package that claims to offer “efficient insight into behaviors in time and space.” This program is interesting because it enables users to visualize and analyze spatial event data on the X and Y plane AND temporal data on the vertical axis. Find more videos [...] Astrid Zweynert, writing for Reuters AlertNet, highlighted the upcoming First International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM) that will take place in Cleveland 16-18 October. Check out Patrick Meier’s blog for an intro to crisis mapping and a regular stream thoughtful posts. Patrick organized the conference with John Carroll professor Jen Ziemke
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I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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