Speakers

Miguel Peixe

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Designer and lead developer of InfoAmazonia, a platform for data interactive maps and citizen journalism.

Based in São Paulo (Brazil), his work is focused mainly on social engagement technologies, collaborative mapping and data visualization.

After his first experiments with web mapping technologies in 2011, he led the development of the cultural map of the city of Fortaleza, developed with Reporter Brasil the project ‘Slaughtering People’, a map of incidents of human trafficking and poor labor conditions of Brazilian meat industry, and built ‘Lataria’, with Greenpeace, a project to monitor and highlight accidents and irregularities in rigs of the pre-salt region.

Later joined the O Eco Lab team, where he participated in the environmental journalism projects Oxpeckers, LandQuest, Ekuatorial and InfoAmazonia.