October 1st 2015
Members of the Network, Dr Jamie Cross and Dr William Mackaness presented a special event as part of the Edinburgh University Global Development Academy Lecture series and the State of the Map Scotland Conference.
This event was a international public conference on maps, mapping and humanitarianism in collaboration with OpenStreetMap and Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) with presentations from MSF’s Missing Maps project, as well as from the OSM community.
Unedited Video of the sessions are available on Youtube
| Welcome and Introduction | Dr Jamie Cross (Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh) | |
| Session One : Maps and Humanitarianism | ||
|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres / Y-Care | Missing Maps: What’s Missing? | Carmen Sumadiwiria |
| MapAction | Helping get aid to where it’s needed most | David Frankland and Nick McWilliam |
| Bioclimate | Rebecca Stedham | |
| Living Labs Nepal | Skype Session | |
| Session Two : Geographical Information Systems (GIS): Theory and Practice | ||
| University of Edinburgh | GIS & Humanitarian Activities: Hammer or Swiss Army Penknife? | Dr William Mackaness |
| University of Edinburgh (Geography) | Surviving the Waves: Cartographies of “Illegal Border Crossings” and Activist Counter-Mapping | Dan Fisher |
| University of Oxford : Oxford Internet Institute | Economic Geographies of Knowledge Production in Sub-Saharan Africa | Sanna Ojanperä |
| Session Three : The Future of the Map | ||
| Open Data Institute | Open Data Mapping: Limits to Potential? | Adam Hinchliff |
| GeoGeo | The World Isn’t Round: The Rise of GI Drones & Creating Mirror Worlds | Paul Georgie |
| Tirami | Keeping the pulse on international development and technology with Udadisi | Rory Gianni |
| What Three Words | 3 words to address the world | Krishma Nayee |
| Crisis Net | Chris Albon | |
| Keynote | ||
| Missing Maps (Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders) | Crowdsourcing and OSM: How volunteers are helping MSF to save lives | Pete Masters |
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