Shai Sussman
Eng. Shai Sussman (M.Sc., Technion) He is a Civil Engineer in Geoinformation and recently graduated a master's program in Urban Planning at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) under the supervision of Dr. Meirav Aharon Gutman. As part of his thesis, he was involved in joint venture between Cornell-Tech and the Technion, where he developed a time based spatial-microsimulation platform, that would simulate demographic behavior in an urban renewal context. Today, he works at Kaplan Open Source, as a developer and GIS specialist.
Sessions
In 2022 we've prepared an infrastructure based on QGIS & Input for Municipal surveys - Helping cities and regional councils in Israel to collect geospatial data with Open Source tools.
Especially focusing on common surveys which would save resources for each participating entity such as road signs, city infrastructure, number of routine oversight acitivty (littering, fixes , upcoming works, traffic issues and gardening & cleaning) along longer term planning like zoning or mapping residents complaints over time.
Our goal is to allow medium to low socioeconomic status municipalities to get the opportunities of "richer" municipalities, who spend much of their budget on proprietary GIS software. In some cases, this opens the door for the first GIS software in for such municipalities.
This talk would cover both the technical aspects and the project management aspects of our efforts, as "converting" a market, traditionally familiar with only proprietary software, to Open Source, has it challenges, especially when it is the public sector.