Patrick Meier (humanitarian)

Patrick Meier invented the concept of using crisis mapping in humanitarian emergencies, and is a co-founder and the Executive Director of WeRobotics.

Thousands of people in forty countries pulled information from YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter as well as email, videos and text messages, and input it on the online map.

[1] Meier worked at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative[1] and is the director of social innovation at the Qatar Computing Research Institute.

[9] In the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, Meier used unmanned aerial vehicles to create detailed images of Kathmandu.

[10] Meier co-founded the Digital Humanitarian Network with United Nations official Andrej Verity.