The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What Percentage of Tweets Generated During a Crisis Are Relevant for Humanitarian Response? More than half-a-million tweets were generated during the first three days of Hurricane Sandy and well over 400,000 pictures were shared via Instagram. Last year, over one million tweets were generated every five minutes on the day that Japan was struck by …
I rely on Nicholas Carr to be the fly in the ointment to all things hailed as utopian about the Internet. The critic’s view of the online learning “revolution”. The Crisis in Higher Education Online vesion of college courses are attracting hundreds of thousands of students, millions of dollars in funding, and accolades from university …
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We do have active duty Marines from 26 MEU and CLB….why the SeaBees Gurad, and DOD are not setting up tent camps is beyond me unless DHS-FEMA wants to re-do the trailer cities it did for Kartinia but way too late……suspect there is turf battles going on……what are the unions doing???Hmmmmmm! Below is URL for …
Could Social Media Have Prevented the Largest Mass Poisoning of a Population in History? I just finished reading a phenomenal book. Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, was co-authored by my good friend Andrew Zolli of PopTech fame and his won-derful colleague Ann Marie Healey. I could easily write several dozen blog posts on this brilliant book. Consider this the …
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Crowdsourcing a Crisis Map of the Beijing Floods: Volunteers vs Government Flash floods in Beijing have killed over 70 people and forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 after destroying over 8,000 homes and causing $1.6 billion in damages. In total, some 1.5 million people have been affected by the floods after Beijing recorded the heaviest rainfall …
CrisisTracker: Collaborative Social Media Analysis For Disaster Response I just had the pleasure of speaking with my new colleague Jakob Rogstadius from Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (Madeira-TTI). Jakob is working on CrisisTracker, a very interesting platform designed to facilitate collaborative social media analysis for disaster response. The rationale for CrisisTracker is the same one behind Ushahidi’s SwiftRiver project …
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Introducing GeoXray for Crisis Mapping My colleague Joel Myhre recently pointed me to Geosemble’s GeoXray platform, which “automatically filters content to your geographic area of interest and to your keywords of interest to provide you with timely, relevant information that enables you and your organization to make better decisions faster.” While I haven’t tested the platform, …
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