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 …
Crowdsourcing the Evaluation of Post-Sandy Building Damage Using Aerial Imagery Posted on November 1, 2012 | 1 Comment My colleague Schuyler Erle from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap just launched a very interesting effort in response to Hurricane Sandy. He shared the info below via CrisisMappers earlier this morning, which I’m turning into this blog post to help him recruit more …
What Was Novel About Social Media Use During Hurricane Sandy? Posted on October 31, 2012 We saw the usual spikes in Twitter activity and the typical (reactive) launch of crowdsourced crisis maps. We also saw map mashups combining user-generated content with scientific weather data. Facebook was once again used to inform our social networks: “We are …
The Limits of Crowdsourcing Crisis Information and The Promise of Advanced Computing First, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the dozen or so iRevolution readers who recently contacted me. I have indeed not been blogging for the past few weeks but this does notmean I have decided to stop blogging altogether. I’ve simply been …
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Six Degrees of Separation: Implications for Verifying Social Media Posted on September 18, 2012 | Leave a comment The Economist recently published this insightful article entitled” Six Degrees of Mobilisation: To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems?” The notion, six degrees of separation, comes from Stanley Milgram’s [small world] …
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Could Twitris+ Be Used for Disaster Response? I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Hermant Purohit and colleagues who have been working on an interesting semantic social web application called Twitris+. A project of the the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis), Twitris+ uses “real-time monitoring and multi-faceted analysis of social signals to provide …
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Innovation and the State of the Humanitarian System Published by ALNAP, the 2012 State of the Humanitarian System report is an important evaluation of the humanitarian community’s efforts over the past two years. “I commend this report to all those responsible for planning and delivering life saving aid around the world,” writes UN Under-Secretary General Valerie …
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