Ervin Malicdem

Ervin Malicdem is the Chief Science Researcher of Project NOAH with over ten years of mapping advocacy nationwide: mapping roads and trails in the Philippines. His mapping efforts were widely recognised during the Haiyan crisis, to which the navigation map he produced was used by the international relief and rescue operations in Tacloban, and cited by UNOCHA as the map to use for operations. He also maintains a mapping and travel advocacy resource for the Philippines, Schadow1 Expeditions. With his advocacy, he realised that mapping would not only benefit tourism, but could also save lives by empowering disaster risk reduction management.