


TEMA: COMPREENDER A MOBILIDADE GLOBAL E AS CRISES MIGRATÓRIAS ATRAVÉS DA VISUALIZAÇÃO DE DADOS
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Apaixonada pelo design de dados, vizualizações vibrantes e transparência radical, Jessica Gergen nasceu em St.Paul, no Minnesota (EUA). Vive fora dos Estados Unids desde os 22 anos de idade com passagens pela Serra Leoa, Indonésia, Bangladesh e agora Moçambique.
Investigadora na área da saúde tem desenvolvido trabalho na área da visualização de dados. Fundou recentemente a Visualst, baseada em Maputo, porque acredita na importância das pessoas terem acesso a dados e informação relevante que as ajudem a tomar decisões.
A Visulast está empenhada em reinventar a forma como os dados são apresentados porque acredita que tal pode ser feito de forma acessível, colorida e ter um impacto poderoso.
Passionate about fantastic data design, high quality analytics, vibrant visualizations, radical transparency, and oxford commas. Jessica is a midwesterner from St.Paul, Minnesota (USA) where she grew up oldest of six children. She has been living abroad since she was 22, with stints in Sierra Leone, Indonesia, Bangladesh and now is happily settled in Mozambique.
Jessica is a recovering global health researcher and data visualization enthusiast. She recently founded Visualst because she believes there is no higher calling than helping people connect with the data and information they need to make decisions. She also believes that data can be colorful, approachable, and powerful. With that vision, Visualst is reinventing how data is designed, starting right here in Mozambique.

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SOBRE O MAPUTO FAST FORWARD
MFF was launched in 2016 as an open platform engaged in promoting creativity and innovation. Its main objective is to help Mozambican creators and innovators across all fields of activity (arts, culture, design, architecture, technology, etc.) to develop and present their projects, engage in fruitful trans-disciplinary debates and develop collaborations in order to establish an ecosystem that will allow them to expand their creative skills and to participate, through the exploration of networking opportunities, in the “global conversation” that is taking place within the “creative industries” sector.