PODCAST: Patrick Meier, Co-founder, The International Network of Crisis Mappers (INCM)

Summary: Following is an exclusive podcast with Patrick Meier, Co-founder, The International Network of Crisis Mappers (INCM). His organization takes a new approach to crisis mapping that has evolved over the past five years with the aim of making the process more collaborative and more immediate. The group leverages anew generation of Web sites that allow users to exchange data and information and help create quasi real-time maps through mobile phone technology will be the way forward in crisis mapping -- just like Twitter and Facebook have become the standard in social networking over the past few years.