Patrick Meier: Crowd-Sourcing and Malaysian Airlines (2)

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Results of the Crowdsourced Search for Malaysia Flight 370

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If these digital efforts continue and Flight 370 has indeed been hijacked, then this will certainly be the first time that crowdsourced satellite imagery analysis is used to find a hijacked aircraft. The latest satellite imagery uploaded by Tomnod is no longer focused on bodies of water but rather land. The blue strips below (left) is the area that the new satellite imagery covers.

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Some important questions will need to be addressed if this operation is indeed extended. What if the hijackers make contact and order the cessation of all offline and online Search & Rescue operations? Would volunteers be considered “digital combatants,” potentially embroiled in political conflict in which the lives of 227 hostages are at stake?

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Analyzing Tweets on Malaysia Flight #MH370

My QCRI colleague Dr. Imran is using our AIDR platform (Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response) to collect & analyze tweets related to Malaysia Flight 370 that went missing several days ago. He has collected well over 850,000 English-language tweets since March 11th; using the following keywords/hashtags: Malaysia Airlines flight, #MH370m #PrayForMH370 and #MalaysiaAirlines.

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Phi Beta Iota: Twitter as a lie-detector and twitter as a truth enabler is well on its way. While black-outs of cellular devices and hence of Twitter is possible in the short-run, people have memories and black-outs are simply not sustainable.

See Also:

Malaysian Airlines @ Phi Beta Iota

Patrick Meier @ Phi Beta Iota

 

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