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 Introduction02:20 Conversation starts: Slayer describes himself07:47 Tech, Preparation & Emergency Situations12:18 Deciding what to work on16:56 From Idea to Application22:03 Focusing on Humanitarian Applications26:17 Apps are only useful if people have phones31:42 Mobile App or SMS?33:30 Aggregating data (Command center)36:25 Dealing with Sensitive Data40:25 Emergency phone notifications42:27 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team48:54 State of OpenStreetMap (& open source) in Taiwan53:44 Language barrier in Open Source & Programming58:26 Line, the most popular app in Taiwan01:05:55 Tech literacy01:11:06 Taiwan's jump directly to mobile01:16:22 Social Enterprise Company01:19:40 The Incentives of a Social Entreprise01:24:19 GeoThing's Business Model01:27:46 Long term support01:36:42 Geopolitics of working in Taiwan01:47:57 Book/podcast (& games) recommendations01:52:04 Sidetrack conversation on Xbox's business model01:54:49 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