Patrick Meier, PhD
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Patrick is an internationally recognized expert and consultant on humanitarian technology and innovation. Book: Digital Humanitarians. Previously: UN, World Bank, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Ushahidi. PhD from Fletcher School, Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford and MA at Columbia. Born & raised in Africa.
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Crowdsourcing a Crisis Map of the Beijing Floods: Volunteers vs Government
Flash floods in Beijing have killed over 70 people and forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 after destroying over 8,000 homes and causing $1.6 billion in damages. In total, some 1.5 million people have been affected by the floods after … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Social Media
Tagged Beijing, China, citizens, Disaster, flood, floods, governments, Response
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A selection of 200 media mentions, interviews and/or references to projects that I have spearheaded and/or to joint efforts that I have been directly involved in over the years. For media enquiries, contact me here. Note: I am no longer … Continue reading
How to Crowdsource Crisis Response
I recently had the distinct pleasure of giving this year’s keynote address at the Global Communications Forum (#RCcom on Twitter) organized by the Interna-tional Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. The conversations that followed were thoroughly fruitful and … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Humanitarian Technologies
Tagged crisis, cross, customer, ICRC, red, Response, service, talkto, twelpforce
Why Crowdsourcing and Crowdfeeding may be the answer to Snowmageddon
The state response to the massive snow storm in NY was predictably slow and not up to the task. The New York Times reported that “streets across vast stretches of the city remained untouched, leaving tens of thousands of residents … Continue reading
The Crowd is Always There: A Marketplace for Crowdsourcing Crisis Response
This blog post is based on the recent presentation I gave at the Emergency Social Data Summit organized by the Red Cross this week. The title of my talk was “Collaborative Crisis Mapping” and the slides are available here. What … Continue reading
From Netsourcing to Crowdsourcing to Turksourcing Crisis Information
The near real-time crisis mapping of the disasters in Haiti and Chile using Ushahidi required a substantial number of student volunteers. These volunteers were not the proverbial crowd but rather members of pre-existing, highly-connected social networks: universities. How do we … Continue reading
Disaster Theory for Techies
I’ve had a number of conversations over the past few weeks on the delineation between pre- and post-disaster phases. We need to move away from this linear concept of disasters, and conflicts as well for that matter. So here’s a … Continue reading
