Marta Poblet
Associate Professor and VC's Senior Researcher at RMIT University. Researcher at the UAB Institute of Law and Technology. Geocurious, observer, crisis mapper.Categories
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Category Archives: mobile technologies
Give me location data, and I will move the world
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Behind the success of the new wave of location based mobile apps taking hold around the world is digital mapping. Location data is core to popular ride-sharing services … Continue reading
Spread the word: the value of local information in disaster response
By Marta Poblet and Keera Pullman As dozens of bushfires continue to burn across the country (not least in New South Wales) many Australians find themselves unable to return home while many others have no home to return to. While … Continue reading
Posted in crisis mapping, crowdsourcing, mobile technologies
Tagged Australia, bushfires, disaster response, technology
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Minimal toys, bikes, and appropriate technologies
Children at play are fascinating to observe. It’s not only that “their games should be deemed as their most serious actions”, as Montaigne famously wrote, but they are the finest examples of serendipity at work. All of a sudden, sticky … Continue reading
