Alistair Hart
Geospatial Sensei
Mappt
Australia

Biography
Alistair is the technical sales support officer and evangelist for Mappt, a low-barrier-to-entry Android mobile GIS app that breaks away from the traditional dependency on pre-existing desktop packages. Mappt seeks to disrupt and democratise the mobile GIS industry by providing a simple yet full-featured interface, all within a competitively priced package that is easily deployable to field teams. Prior to joining Mappt, Alistair owned a geospatial consulting company, managed a spatial information profit centre owned by a local government, led the local spatial response to two severe tropical cyclones in far north Queensland and co-developed Australia’s first GIS-based outbreak management system to control Dengue Fever, a mosquito borne disease. Spatial projects managed by Alistair have accrued many state and national awards, including for informing disaster response communications through spatial information, enabling collaborative crowd sourcing for wildfire mitigation through open-source web mapping and preserving Tree Kangaroo populations in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Abstract
Spatially enabling healthier communities with simple field mapping technology

In this presentation, Alistair reviews the evolution of an Australian GIS based Dengue Outbreak Surveillance System from an entirely paper based system through two digital mobile platforms and envisions a future for communicable disease oubreak management underpinned with capable yet simple spatial technologies, which democratise outbreak data, making it accessable to both the health profession, NGOs, Corporates and digital citizens.