Patrick Meier on Crowdsourcing Crisis Mapping
July 13th, 2010
Patrick Meier — Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi — has published widely on the topic of conflict early warning and blogs at iRevolution.net and EarlyWarning. Here he discusses how Ushahidi’s open source mapping system has been used to help those on the ground report issues and connect swiftly with responders during crises and major events such as the recent earthquake in Haiti, the Gulf oil spill, and elections in Sudan.
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