Consulting

Consulting Services for Economic Development via Technology and Data Sciences

  • Business Entrepreneurship, Startups, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • Smart Cities, Urban Development, and Conflict Stabilization
  • Forced Displacement Solutions and Refugee Camps
  • Security Infrastructure, Physical Planning and Public Policy

Workshops
I offer workshops alongside lectures or as a separate service. Workshops are best suited for a maximum of 20 participants and require advance notice for preparation.  Workshop topics are not limited to, but have previously included the following:


  • Human Factors and Design Research
  • Social and Geographic Mapping 
  • Geospatial Data Collection 
  • Monitoring and Evaluation for Social/Economic/Market/Conflict/Urban Programming
  • Design Research Methods
  • Socio-Technical Systems Design
  • Interdisciplinary Design and Humanitarian Issues
  • GIS Mapping for Qualitative Research
  • Creating robust social science data sets from scratch
  • Quality of life upgrading opportunities within refugee camps and cities in conflict
  • Urban Conflict Assessment
  • Technical Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Ethnography and Experimental Research Methods
  • Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Participatory Action Design (PAD)

How to Build Something from Nothing

Trying to explain my day job to the American Geographical Society at Geo2050. November 2015. Everyday I have to give someone a 15 secon...