Crisis Information Management - Tools and Thoughts

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Presentation given at the UN Crisis Information Management Group (CiMAG)

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CiM ~ Tools & Thinking

Sanjana Hattotuwa

TED Fellow | ICT4Peace Foundation

new demographicssocial witnessing

new cartographiescrowdsourcing and crisis mapping

grassroots mapping | new cartographieshttp://publiclaboratory.org/sites/default/files/4445981062_73945db207_b_2.jpg

grassroots mapping | new cartographieshttp://grassrootsmapping.org/gulf-oil-spill

map kibera community mappinghttp://mapkibera.org

seeingdata visualisation

Infogram: data driven narrativeshttp://infogr.am/beta

Easel.ly: data driven narrativeshttp://www.easel.ly

timeline: temporal narrativeshttp://timeline.verite.co

plotting, panning, zooming

infoviz & zui’s

photosynth: many eyes, context provisioninghttp://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=f3a648b8-7a4c-4bc4-8396-5746d86225b6

prezi: scale and contexthttp://prezi.com/4cghil5ghukn/iccm-day-1/

prezi: scale and contexthttp://prezi.com/4cghil5ghukn/iccm-day-1/

silverlight: scale and contexthttp://memorabilia.hardrock.com

sensingcrowdsourcing and web agents

Detecting Emergent Conflicts through Web Mining and Visualizationhttp://irevolution.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/detecting-emergent-conflicts-through-web-mining-and-visualization.pdf

sourcingmobile apps

The App Builder : Apps as servicehttp://www.theappbuilder.com/index.aspx

sourcingweb apps

recorded future: web data mining for analysishttps://www.recordedfuture.com

swift river : real time web data mininghttp://ushahidi.com/products/swiftriver-platform

verifyingdistributed intelligence

LRA crisis trackerhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org

LRA crisis tracker | Verificationhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org/sites/default/files/Map-Methodology-and-Database%20Codebook%20v1.0.pdf

JPquake Site: crowdsourcing media reportshttp://www.jpquake.info

Christchurch: damage assessmenthttp://tomnod.com/geocan/

radical transparency vs. privacy

challenges

Blurring private, sovereign and public@BeijingAir | https://twitter.com/#!/BeijingAir

Watch Dogs: Surveillance vs. public goodhttp://watchdogs.ubi.com/watchdogsgame/en-US/home

retention, revival and access

challenges

timescale: natural disastersocial media growth

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frankensteins of social mediakeeping expired information alive, and bringing history to present

CaptureCurationArchival / RetentionSunset? / Expiry?SharingStandards and platformsMaintenanceData governanceAccessUse cases (do no harm? / fair?)

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the new revolutionshttp://revolution2book.com

"I don't personally trust any tool," he said. "I trust the people behind the tool." And that remains the most important lesson of Revolution 2.0. Technology is just an enabler. It is what people decide to do with it that matters most.

Wael Ghonim

thank yousanjanahattotuwa@ict4peace.org