The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Patrick Meier (PhD)
Patrick 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 and previously co-directed Harvard's Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning. He also consults extensively for international organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe. Patrick holds a PhD from The Fletcher School, a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Stanford and an MA from Columbia University. He was born & raised in Africa.
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- The Use of Drones for Nonviolent Civil Resistance
- Stranger than Fiction: A Few Words About An Ethical Compass for Crisis Mapping
- Drones for Human Rights: Brilliant or Foolish? (Updated)
- On Crowdsourcing, Crisis Mapping and Data Protection Standards
- Some Thoughts on Real-Time Awareness for Tech@State
- How to Crowdsource Better Governance in Authoritarian States
- Google Inc + World Bank = Empowering Citizen Cartographers?
- What do Travel Guides and Nazi Germany have to do with Crisis Mapping and Security?
- How Crisis Mapping Proved Henry Kissinger Wrong in Cambodia
- Time to #Occupy my #Holiday
- SMS for Violence Prevention: PeaceTXT International Launches in Kenya
- Amplifying Somali Voices Using SMS and a Live Map: #SomaliaSpeaks
- Why Bounded Crowdsourcing is Important for Crisis Mapping and Beyond
- Crowdsourcing vs Putin: “Mapping Dots is a Disease on the Map of Russia”
- Why Architecture and Calendars Are Trojan Horses for Repressive Regimes
- Information Forensics: Five Case Studies on How to Verify Crowdsourced Information from Social Media
- Beyond the Dot: Building Visual DNA for Crisis Mapping
- Using Ushahidi Data to Study the Micro-Dynamics of Violent Conflict
- Do “Liberation Technologies” Change the Balance of Power Between Repressive Regimes and Civil Society?
- My Opening Speech at CrisisMappers 2011 in Geneva
Speaking Tour / Keynotes
Skoll World Forum 2011 - London
Club de Madrid 2011 - NYC
PopTech 2011 - Camedn
TEDx 2011 - SF
TEDx 2011 - KC
SxSW 2011 - Austin
CrowdConf 2011 - SF
Where 2.0 2011 - SF
Net Impact 2011 - Portland
Re:publica 2011 - Berlin
ICRC GC Forum 2011 - Geneva
Amnesty Int'l 2011 - SF
IPI World Congress 2011 - Taiwan
The Same Wavelength 2011 - London
LinuxConf 2011- Tokyo
Share 2011 - Belgrade
Golden Tag 2011 - Oslo
HAS 2011 - Boston
One World 2011 - Prague
Re:campaign 2011 - Berlin
Newseum 2011 - DC
MORE 25 2011 - Bermuda
PopTech 2010 - Camden
Where 2.0 2010 - SF
CrowdConf 2010 - SF
CGI-U 2010 - Miami
Mashable 2010 - NY
Twitter Chirp 2010 - SF
TEDx 2010 - SF
CrisisMappers 2010 - Boston
Foo Camp 2010 - Phoenix
Genocide Prevention - Cambodia
TechCamp 2010 - Santiago
PDF 2010 - Santiago
ValGEO 2010 - Milano
Liberation Tech 2010 - SF
Gov 2.0 Expo 2010 -DC
UN Global Pulse 2010 - Bellagio
ICT4D 2009 - Doha
LIFT 2009 - Geneva
CrisisMappers 2009 - Cleveland
ABWxD 2009 - Rhode Island
My Tweets- PatrickMeier: Off to Barcelona to speak at Mobile World Congress #MWC 2012 about the role of mobile technologies & crisis mapping for disaster response
- PatrickMeier: How to Use @Ushahidi More Securely http://t.co/L7FTn2KE
- PatrickMeier: An Exploration of Social Identity: The Geography & Politics of News-Sharing Communities in Twitter http://t.co/yBcMnO6y
- PatrickMeier: RT @SBTaskForce: Al-Jazeera's Crisis Map of the Snowstorm Emergency in the Balkans http://t.co/0snc6pFK
- PatrickMeier: Feeling guilty? Then go to http://t.co/xjY9rPhm and crowdsource your redemption! http://t.co/CD42x85j
Favorites & Recent Reads
MacroWikinomics 2011
Locavesting 2011
What Technology Wants 2011
Digital Origins of Dictatorship & Democracy 2011
Switch 2010
Rework 2010
Cognitive Surplus 2010
The Daemon 2009
Here Comes Everybody 2008
The Starfish and the Spider 2006
Mapping Vulnerability 2004
Wasp 1999
Seeing like a State 1998Archives
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it’s very impreesful….
forcasting through geoinformatics….
i’m yemeni ..i wish if any organization or researchers have desire to participate about crisis mapping in yemen…
i feel loneliness…