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Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring – Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification

Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification This new book, Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use, promises to be a valuable resource to both practitioners and academics interested in leveraging new information & communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of human rights work. I had …

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Patrick Meier: PeopleBrowsr – Next-Generation Social Media Analysis

PeopleBrowsr: Next-Generation Social Media Analysis for Humanitarian Response? As noted in this blog post on “Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response,” members of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHNetwork) are still using manual methods for media monitoring. When the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) to crisis …

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Patrick Meier: Crowd-Seeding – This is HUGE Advance

From Crowdsourcing Crisis Information to Crowdseeding Conflict Zones “Crowdseeding brings the population (the crowd) from only A (what you get with crowdsourcing) to A+B+C+D: because you give phones & credit and you go to and inform the phoneholds about the project. So the crowd increases from A to A+B+C+D. And then from A+B+C+D one takes a representative …

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Patrick Meier: Surprising Findings – Using Mobile Phones to Predict Population Displacement After Major Disasters

Surprising Findings: Using Mobile Phones to Predict Population Displacement After Major Disasters Rising concerns over the consequences of mass refugee flows during several crises in the late 1970′s is what prompted the United Nations (UN) to call for the establishment of early warning systems for the first time. “In 1978-79 for example, the United Nations and …

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Patrick Meier: DeadUshandi / Ushandi 10% of the Solution

DeadUshahidi: Neither Dead Right Nor Dead Wrong There’s a new Crowdmap in town called DeadUshahidi. The site argues that “Mapping doesn’t equal change. Using crowdsourcing tech like Ushahidi maps without laying the strategic and programmatic ground work is likely not going to work. And while we think great work has been done with crowdsourced reporting, there is …

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Patrick Meier: Towards a Match.com for Economic Resilience in a Crisis-Stricken World

Towards a Match.com for Economic Resilience in a Crisis-Stricken World So that’s what he’s been up to! My good friend and mentor Ken Banks of Kiwanja fame has just launched a very interesting initiative entitled “Means of Exchange“. Ken wants to democratize opportunities for radical economic self-sufficiency and thus render local communities more resilient to exogenous shocks. …

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