First round of concurrent sessions
Format: Collaborative Mapping
Speakers: Ali Ercan Özgür, Shaunette Ferguson, Akkanut Wantanasombut, Anyamitra “Yanagi” Wongprasitthiporn
This collaborative mapping session brings together NeedsMap and ThaiEconomap to explore how digital infrastructure can strengthen local solidarity. NeedsMap is a platform cooperative for coordinating community needs, resources, organizations, and volunteers, including in disaster response, and is experimenting with AI-assisted coordination. ThaiEconoMap, developed at Chulalongkorn University, is a mobile platform that maps local businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises so residents can find and support enterprises in their communities. Using these two cases, participants will collectively map actors, technologies, and governance models across the solidarity ecosystem, identify gaps and connections, and ask how mapping itself can strengthen community-owned and locally governed infrastructure.
Reporter 1: Ali Ercan Özgür
Reporter 2:
Speakers
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Ali Ercan Özgür Co-founder of Needs Map
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Shaunette T. Ferguson Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University, Institute for Data, Research, and Innovation Science
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Anyamitra “Yanagi” Wongprasitthiporn DevOps engineer, open source enthusiast and founder of TechTransThai
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Akkanut Wantanasombut Head of the ISSIE Research Group at Chulalongkorn University