Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang: Leveraging Taiwan's Unique Infrastructure to Support Disaster Response - MBM#39
Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang is the co-founder of GeoThings, a Taiwanese company leveraging SMS to share GPS location, images & any useful information for disaster response. He was also on the board of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team; and has focused on applying mapping to supporting humanitarian endeavours mostly in Asia.
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About Slayer:
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Cell Tower data source (used in the intro animation): OpenCellid
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:20 Conversation starts: Slayer describes himself
07:47 Tech, Preparation & Emergency Situations
12:18 Deciding what to work on
16:56 From Idea to Application
22:03 Focusing on Humanitarian Applications
26:17 Apps are only useful if people have phones
31:42 Mobile App or SMS?
33:30 Aggregating data (Command center)
36:25 Dealing with Sensitive Data
40:25 Emergency phone notifications
42:27 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
48:54 State of OpenStreetMap (& open source) in Taiwan
53:44 Language barrier in Open Source & Programming
58:26 Line, the most popular app in Taiwan
01:05:55 Tech literacy
01:11:06 Taiwan's jump directly to mobile
01:16:22 Social Enterprise Company
01:19:40 The Incentives of a Social Entreprise
01:24:19 GeoThing's Business Model
01:27:46 Long term support
01:36:42 Geopolitics of working in Taiwan
01:47:57 Book/podcast (& games) recommendations
01:52:04 Sidetrack conversation on Xbox's business model
01:54:49 Launching a Patreon
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