Episode 2 - Olivier Cottray: A Map in the Eye of the User

Today I am joined by Olivier Cottray, Director of Humanitarian Solutions at ESRI, and with nearly 5000 followers on LinkedIn, he is the closest the humanitarian Geospatial community has to a celebrity. Starting his career working for the Antarctic survey, Ollivier has had a storied carreer in multiple NGOs.Olivier tells us about his dream GIS, a system that allows users to define their needs and prorities. Drawing from his experience with GICHD, he bases his idea on the PRISMA project that used sliding scales to help reach a consensus of de-mining prioritisation. By allowing local voices to decide where should be de-mined first, practical decisions could be made to prioritise action. Olivier wants to expand this needs driven map to the globality of humanitarian response and integrate it directly in the rebuild after, what he so eloquently calls, the humanitarian reset. Join me next Monday where I will be speaking to Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, where he takes us on a tour of the BLIMP. Links:Esri Humanitarian Solutions IMSMAPRISMA

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