Few people have
had a bigger role in shaping the future of evidence-based
humanitarian and disaster relief as the man behind the website/blog
which sits at #17 on my list of top 25 SMEM destinations.
Patrick
Meier, scholar, crisis mappers and humanist, is making history.
Through his engagement with Ushahidi (more
to come on that topic later in our series), he's helping blaze a
trail of innovation, participation and crowdsourcing that's making a
difference around the world.
When
Patrick blogs on iRevolution.net people
listen, particularly when he raises issues such as data
validation on social media for crisis mapping and
crowdsourcing, or helping with the monitoring
of flawed elections in Russia, his blogposts become authoritative
statements.
For
most, that would be more than enough, but Patrick Meier is also
co-founder of the International Network of Crisis Mappers (Crisis
Mappers Net) and the Standby
Task Force, two of the most important organizations/networks in
crisis mapping and crowdsourcing. To give you an idea of where this
all leads, consult some crisis
mapping highlights.
For his ideas and
for setting new horizons in the use of social media in disasters,
Patrick Meier's iRevolution.net is #17 on my list.
Watch and learn
what motivates him.
The list so far:
#17: the
iRevolution.net website and blog by Patrick Meier
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