Kate Chapman has been announced
as the second keynote for #lca2014!
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Press Release.
For immediate Release.
The
linux.conf.au
2014 team are pleased to announce the second keynote speaker for
their conference.
Kate Chapman is the Executive Director of the Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team.
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is an initiative of
OpenStreetMap to apply the principles of open source and open data
sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development.
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team believes that freely
available, up-to-date geographic data can be vital in responding
to a disaster. They help communities and responders to utilize the
OpenStreetMap data, and encourage them to contribute and update
the data.
Over the past two years Kate has been primarily based in Indonesia
where she has lead the AusAID funded HOT program. The program
Scenario Development for Contingency Planning (SD4CP) is a joint
initiative of the Indonesian and Australian governments through
BNPB (Indonesian Disaster Management Agency) and AusAID that aims
to teach disaster mangers how to develop realistic impact scenario
for contingency planning. HOT teaches disaster mangers to
spatially analysis the combination of scientific hazard model
outputs with community knowledge through the open-source software
InaSAFE (Indonesia Scenario Assessment For Emergencies).
OpenStreetMap is one of the keys elements of this procedure, as it
allows the disaster mangers to draw on community knowledge to
identify important buildings such as schools and hospitals that
potentially be impacted during a disaster.
We're really pleased to have Kate coming to talk with us as her
personal efforts and her teams work represents an organization
that we can really hold up as a shining example of how the open
source model truly does work.
linux.conf.au
is an annual open source conference organised by Linux Australia.
In 2014 the conference will be held in Perth, Western Australia
from the 6th January to the 10th.