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.

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About Slayer:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• GeoThings

Shownotes:

• Cell Tower data source (used in the intro animation): OpenCellid
• GeoThings
• CrisisMappers
• Asian Development Bank
• Open GeoSMS Standard
• HOT: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
• ITRI: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Line
• Book Podcast (and games) recommendations:
  • BBC Podcasts
  • Xbox Game Pass

Timestamps:

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

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