Mikel Maron
Human, OpenStreetMap

Mikel is co-Founder of Mapufacture (now part of GeoCommons), and specializes in Open Geospatial and Wiki technologies. He’s been active in the standardization of GeoRSS and in the OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping project, and several open source projects. He’s developed two of the first Wikis in use at the UN. Previously, Mikel worked as senior developer of My Yahoo! and researched evolutionary models of ecosystems for an MSc at the University of Sussex.

Sessions

2:50pm - 3:35pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008

Disaster Tech: What is working and what is coming

Location: Mission Hills

Jesse Robbins (Opscode), Mikel Maron (OpenStreetMap)

Twitter and Google Maps are being used in mainstream emergency management, and projects like InSTEDD will push them even farther. This session shows you what is working, what isn't, and what's next in Disaster Tech. Read more.