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Crowdmapping for (re)designing the world. | Maria Brovelli | TEDxLakeComo

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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How the digital technology has changed the way to map the world and how the collaborative mapping helps to collect the information necessary to manage emergencies or to design  in a new way the territories.

Crowdmapping for (re)designing the world. Professor of Geographic Information System (GIS) at the Politecnico di Milano and Pro-Rector of the Territorial Pole of Como of the same university, MARIA BROVELLI contributes with her research to the development of digital technologies applied to cartography and geodesy. Her interest is focused on collaborative processes, procedures (crowdmapping) that 
allow a reading of  our planet from different and unusual angles. Maria holds prestigious positions in important organizations and participates in important international initiatives in the field. In 2015 she received the International Prize Sol Katz of OSGeo.


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