What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sa …

… Our group is open to anyone who can offer valuable insights into matters of business and finance; those who have a vision and want to share it; those who are in the midst of their own financial crisis and looking for a solution, and various professionals seeking to gain an edge over their own financial affairs or sharpen their tools in order to leverage their assets with greater precision and security, leaving nothing to chance.

How do we as New Yorkers respond to economic crisis, peak oil, and climate change? These have been the central questions of this Meetup since its formation back in 2004.  T he group held monthly meetings at a now-closed restaurant in Chelsea.  Some of its members organized an epic but poorly attended NYC peak oil conference back in 2006.  After experimenting with format changes, aiming to shift the focus of the Meetup from talk to action, Bill Burke and I decided to end monthly meetings …