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New Tactics is very pleased to introduce you to the Geo-Mapping featured resource practitioners!  If you would like to contact one of these practitioners directly, you may click on the names that provide a hyperlink to their New Tactics personal biography account. Please click on the 'contact' tab to send a message to their email.   

Our co-moderator, Christian Kreutz, is a political scientist and knowledge activist. He works as a consultant for knowledge management and information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D). The places Christian has worked for include the German Parliament and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ- German Technical Cooperation). He has worked two years on a women rights project in Egypt and is involved in a project for local transparency in politics.  Christian's interests are knowledge sharing, activism and networks for social change.

Lars Bromley is a Project Director with the Science and Human Rights Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He currently leads the project on geospatial technologies and human rights, funded by the MacArthur and Oak Foundations as well as the Open Society Institute. He has conducted extensive work to apply remote sensing, satellite imagery, and related tools to large scale atrocities in Darfur, Burma, Ethiopia, and elsewhere, in partnership with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and numerous other organizations. He has published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, and other publications, and is a member of the International Advisory Council of HURIDOCS. He holds an MA in Geography from the University of Maryland.

Patrick Meier is Ushahidi’s Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships. He is the cofounder of the International Network of Crisis Mappers (INCM) and the co-organizer of the International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM) series. Patrick also cofounded the Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning (CM&EW) at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and recently consulted for UNDP/Sudan's Threat and Risk Mapping Analysis (TRMA) project. Patrick is also a PhD Candidate at The Fletcher School where his dissertation research analyzes the role of new media and digital technology for civil resistance against repressive rule. He recently co-taught a full-semester course on Digital Democracy at Tufts University and serves on the Board of Advisors for DigiActive and Digital Democracy. Patrick has an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and is an alumnus of the Santa Fe Institute’s (SFI) Complex Systems Summer School for PhDs. Patrick was born in Cote d’Ivoire and grew up in Kenya. He blogs at iRevolution.  

Michael Graham is the Coordinator of the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  He has been involved in several online mapping projects, including Crisis in Darfur, a partnership with Google Earth, and World is Witness. Recently he as been working with partners to develop a collaborative mapping tool for humanitarian response and early warning.

Sandra Sudhoff, a Landscape Architect/Landscape Planner by profession, was exposed to emergency maps and thematic mapping in the developing world while writing her thesis on Natural Resource Management for the GTZ in Mozambique. It sparked her interest and she pursued a  Masters degree in GIS and Remote Sensing after. She has been working for developing and humanitarian projects (GTZ, UNHCR) in the past and has joined CartONG, a French NGO specialised in Mapping and Information Managment, in 2007. Their main partner is UNHCR, but CartONG is also active in the Shelter Cluster and collaborates with other NGO's; especially in the area of capacity building.

Mifan Careem is Director/CTO at Sahana, the disaster management system project. He is also a post-graduate GIS researcher, and contributes to OpenEvsys: a human rights case management system, and Mapbender: an OSGEO GIS portal project. Mifan is also a contributor to Tactical Technology Collective's Maps for Advocacy. Mifan, a FOSS-GIS advocate, is a neogeographer with an affection towards anything that can be described in lat/lon, and according to Steve Brand: "Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.", he wants to drive the steamroller!

Gillo Cutrupi has coached a number of NGOs, researching and developing innovative tactics and tools for community building. The majority of his work was done for Greenpeace International where he was one of the founders of the first Web team in the organisation and, consequently, its main Internet strategist. More recently, he started collaborating with other activist and environmental groups launching plans for the interaction between their online and offline constituencies. He sat on the board of Greenpeace Italy and he was featured in various Italian and International publications. His other interests include viral marketing, politics, travel and performing arts. (Gillo has been called away by work and will be unable to participate as a featured practitioner in this dialogue.)