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2013/01/08

Patrick Meier: Comparing the Quality of Crisis Tweets Versus 911 Emergency Calls

Comparing the Quality of Crisis Tweets Versus 911 Emergency Calls In 2010, I published this blog post entitled “Calling 911: What Humanitarians Can Learn from 50 Years of Crowdsourcing.” Since then, humanitarian colleagues have become increasingly open to the use of crowdsourcing as a methodology to both collect and process information during disasters. I’ve been studying …

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2013/01/052013/01/05

Berto Jongman: Informed Comment on US Drone Strikes

Being read in Europe and Asia. The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.) Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K. Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: EXTRACTS PAKISTAN Drone strikes in Pakistan are now at their lowest level in five years, as Islamabad protests almost every attack. The …

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2012/12/26

Yoda: European Union Open Data Portal Opens

A start, good this is. EU Commission unwraps public beta of open data portal with 5800+ datasets, ahead of Jan 2013 launch Good news for open data lovers in the European Union and beyond: the European Commission on Christmas Eve quietly pushed live the public beta version of its all-new open data portal. For the …

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2012/12/192013/04/04

Stephen E. Arnold: AugmentText & Social Media Kill Zones

SOCIAL MEDIA Social media looks like a free and easy way to jump start sluggish sales or generate qualified new leads. That’s probably why so many companies adopt the Nike slogan and “Just Do It.” But random acts of social media can be expensive, wasteful and are usually ineffective. The typical impact of a weekly …

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2012/12/162012/12/16

Event: 27-30 Dec 2012 Hamburg DE European Hackers Conference

29C3: 29th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th to 30th, 2012 CCH Congress Center Hamburg, Germany, Earth, Milky Way The Event The 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29C3) is an annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology and …

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2012/12/122013/04/04

Stephen E. Arnold: Screening & Judging Social Media

Social Media Services Announced The Honk a Limited Distribution Newsletter Social media has been on our radar for years. However, in the last three months, a number of clients and people struggling with social media “challenges” have enlisted our help. Our engagements have ranged from analyses of the vulnerabilities of the screening methods in use …

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2012/12/082012/12/08

Patrick Meier: UN, Social Media, HUMINT, and Geospatial Decision-Support –a REAL Revolution in Intelligence Affairs

How the UN Used Social Media in Response to Typhoon Pablo Our mission as digital humanitarians was to deliver a detailed dataset of pictures and videos (posted on Twitter) which depicted the damage and flooding following the Typhoon. An overview of this digital response is available here. The task of our United Nations colleagues at the Office of the …

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