Richard Tyson brings over 20 years of experience working with diverse teams and executives to cultivate new opportunities from disruptive social, economic, and technological change. He has built his career advising public and private enterprises on adaptive capacities—learning, innovation, and social engagement—that foster growth and resilience. Richard was most recently a principal for design strategy and planning at Caerus Associates focusing on conflict-affected cities and regions. Before joining Caerus, he was founder and principal of Helsinki Group and before that, an associate partner at Monitor/Doblin, where he helped Fortune 500 companies develop organizational models for R&D and innovation. He serves on the Advisory Board of UN OCHA’s Data Analysis Project, developing trusted, reliable, scalable data services about humanitarian crises. Richard has worked with governments, NGOs, and enterprises around the world in the US, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
Global Tech
Data and Crisis: The Information Revolution in Humanitarian Response
Almost nothing makes gathering robust information harder than a natural disaster. But new services and infrastructure emerging globally promise to revolutionize humanitarian response. The edge of the network is alive with open-source technologies, open data, mobile and social computing, cloud services, open GIS, microblogging, sensing, homemade unmanned aerial vehicles, open analytics, and visualization. These will all contribute to a revolution in humanitarian and development affairs over the next 10-15 years.
GPS
Mapping as Platform: Are We There Yet?
Mapping used to be a simple, literal, two-dimensional exercise. Today it's a four-dimensional adventure that allows us to capture specific data points and sets in never-before-seen-detail. It lets us navigate data, understanding and predicting in ways never before imaginable and realms never before reachable -- geographic, molecular, neural. Will new mapping technologies open new vistas of opportunity and progress, or just help us find new places to get lost? Epidemico's John Brownstein, ESRI's S.J. Camarata, Jr., Andrew Gold of RF Spot, Walter Scott of Digital Globe, and Richard Tyson of the UNOCHA Data Analysis Project discuss.
Conferences
Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
