The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Haiti: Lies, Damned Lies and Crisis Mapping You’d think there was some kind of misinformation campaign going on about the Ushahidi-Haiti Crisis Map given the number of new lies that are still being manu-factured even thought it has been over three years since the earthquake. Please, if you really want a professional, independent and rigorous account of the project, …
Video: When Crisis Mapping Meets Minority Report Posted on February 16, 2013 | Leave a comment This short video was inspired by the pioneering work of the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF). A global network of 1,000+ digital humanitarians in 80+ countries, the SBTF is responsible for some of the most important live crisis mapping operations that …
Dark, their force is. Mobile’s dawning signal crisis Roland Pease BBC, 13 February 2013 EXTRACT To understand the scale of the problem, you only need to look at the numbers. For example, the mobile giant Ericsson has been tracking the growth in mobile traffic for years. But 2009 was a landmark year, according to the …
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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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The crisis of legitimacy and representation Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo ForumBlog.org, Dec 17th, 2012 The ongoing spat between the cyber community and the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reveals a much larger crisis that the world is increasingly facing – the crisis of the legitimacy of representation. The UN and the Internet are arguably two of …
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Optimizing Distributed Collaboration for Live Crisis Mapping My colleague Duncan Watts recently spoke with Scientific American about a new project I am collaborating on with him & colleagues at Microsoft Research. I first met Duncan while at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) back in 2006. We recently crossed paths again (at 10 Downing Street, of all places), and …
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Why USAID’s Crisis Map of Syria is so Unique While static, this crisis map includes a truly unique detail. Click on the map below to see a larger version as this may help you spot what is so striking. For a hint, click this link. Still stumped? Look at the sources listed in the Key. ANSWER …
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