Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang: Leveraging Taiwan's Unique Infrastructure to Support Disaster Response - MBM#39

Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang is the co-founder of GeoThings, a Taiwanese company leveraging SMS to share GPS location, images & any useful information for disaster response. He was also on the board of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team; and has focused on applying mapping to supporting humanitarian endeavours mostly in Asia. ---Episode Sponsor: GeoAwesomeness & UP42 EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---Support the podcast on PatreonAbout Slayer:TwitterLinkedInGeoThingsShownotes:Cell Tower data source (used in the intro animation): OpenCellidGeoThingsCrisisMappersAsian Development BankOpen GeoSMS StandardHOT: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap TeamITRI: Industrial Technology Research InstituteLineBook Podcast (and games) recommendations:BBC PodcastsXbox Game PassTimestamps:(00:00) Introduction(02:20) Conversation starts: Slayer describes himself(07:47) Tech, Preparation & Emergency Situations(12:18) Deciding what to work on(16:56) From Idea to Application(22:03) Focusing on Humanitarian Applications(26:17) Apps are only useful if people have phones(31:42) Mobile App or SMS?(33:30) Aggregating data (Command center)(36:25) Dealing with Sensitive Data(40:25) Emergency phone notifications(42:27) Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team(48:54) State of OpenStreetMap (& open source) in Taiwan(53:44) Language barrier in Open Source & Programming(58:26) Line, the most popular app in Taiwan(01:05:55) Tech literacy(01:11:06) Taiwan's jump directly to mobile(01:16:22) Social Enterprise Company(01:19:40) The Incentives of a Social Entreprise(01:24:19) GeoThing's Business Model(01:27:46) Long term support(01:36:42) Geopolitics of working in Taiwan(01:47:57) Book/podcast (& games) recommendations(01:52:04) Sidetrack conversation on Xbox's business model(01:54:49) Launching a Patreon- Support on Patreon- Website- My Twitter- Podcast Twitter- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work