Jeffrey Warren
Encyclopedia
Jeffrey Warren is a fellow at the MIT Media Lab
's Design Ecology Group. He is also the founder of Grassrootsmapping.org, which promotes public GIS for cartographic areas in dispute. Through Grassrootsmapping.org, Jeffrey has created prototypes for allowing regular members of the public to build their own "people's satellite" which can be built as a DIY kit for $200. The prototype has been used in several humanitarian and ecological disasters including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico
.
Warren is also a fellow in the Center for Future Civic Media.
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
's Design Ecology Group. He is also the founder of Grassrootsmapping.org, which promotes public GIS for cartographic areas in dispute. Through Grassrootsmapping.org, Jeffrey has created prototypes for allowing regular members of the public to build their own "people's satellite" which can be built as a DIY kit for $200. The prototype has been used in several humanitarian and ecological disasters including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and continues to leak fresh oil. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry...
in the Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...
.
Warren is also a fellow in the Center for Future Civic Media.