Date: Monday, May, 26, 2014; 17:15 – 18:15
Place: Techno-Z, GI-lecture-room: SC30OG1.E07
(Schillerstraße 30, building 14, 1st floor)
Speaker: Jen Ziemke – Crisis Mapping
(Crisis Mappers, John Carroll University, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative)
Jen Ziemke, Co-Founder &
Co-Curator of the International Network of Crisis Mappers, will be speaking to
us about how a network of activists emerged to help leverage crowdsourcing and
geospatial analytics for humanitarian response, in 2009. She will discuss some
of what the network has learned together over the past few years; the core
challenges and issues that keep resurfacing, and what might be next in this
evolving new area of inquiry. Jen has her PhD from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Carroll
University and Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Speaker: Shadrock
Roberts - Geographic Data in Humanitarian Relief and
Aid: Challenges and directions for future research
(University of
Georgia, Center for Geospatial Research)
Shadrock will discuss various research and
professional projects that he has been involved with - mostly for enumerating
refugee populations using remote sensing - and the challenges that Shadrock has
faced in different projects. While some of the challenges are technical, many
of them are not, and this will lead him to question organizational and
political issues around the sharing of geographic data.
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