Patrick Meier (PhD) is an internationally recognized thought leader on the application of new technologies for crisis early warning, humanitarian response, human rights and civil resistance. He currently serves as Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi, a non-profit tech-nology company voted by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the 50 most innovative compa-nies in the world alongside Facebook, Google and Twitter. Patrick co-founded the International Network of Crisis Mappers as well as the award-winning Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF), and spearheads the PeaceTXT project in Kenya with PopTech and partners. In 2010, President Bill Clinton publicly recognized him for his leadership and contributions. He previously co-directed the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning, and has consulted extensively for major international organizations including the UN, OSCE, OECD, EC and the World Bank on numerous cutting-edge projects in Africa, Asia and Europe over the past 10 years. Patrick is an accomplished speaker, having presented at many international conferences including the Skoll World Forum, Club de Madrid, Mobile World Congress, PopTech, Where 2.0, TTI/Vanguard, SXSW and several TEDx’s. He is often interviewed by the media including the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, The Economist, Al-Jazeera, CNN and NPR. He is also a distinguished scholar, holding a PhD from The Fletcher School, a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Stanford and an MA from Columbia University. In addition, he was a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and holds advanced certificates in complexity science from both the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI). Patrick has given guest lectures at Harvard, Columbia and Stanford and has also taught professional, graduate and undergraduate courses on disaster and conflict early warning systems, crisis mapping, digital democracy and complexity science. He is an accomplished author with dozens of publications to his name in peer-reviewed journals, major reports and book chapters. Patrick also authors the widely respected iRevolution blog and tweets at @patrickmeier.
Full CV available here (NB: 15 page PDF).
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Hi, am highly impressed about you biography. anyway, i am am a second year MSc. Geomatic Engineering Student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology.
I want to divert into software programming so i could use that knowledge to write applications for GIS and GPS works. Can u please advise me? thanks.
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Thank you for what you are doing! I am not as educated as you all but am still very interested in justice and rectification of injustices in the world.
Peace and love to all.
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