INNOVATION
FRANCESCA LEONARDI
EARLY ON A RECENT MORNING, WOODSMOKE wafted above the murmur of village life in Gorama, Sierra Leone, as Rupert Allen sat sweating in the shade of a concrete veranda. A member of Missing Maps—a humanitarian project that maps parts of the world vulnerable to natural disasters, conflicts and disease—Allen tapped away on a small laptop next to a black goat and a small, tame monkey. Connected by a smartphone hot spot, Allen was in charge of mapping the nearby area.