Crowd-sourcing of knowledge in disaster management

Hiranmay GhoshTCS Innovation Labs, Delhi

IKS Workshop, March 30-31, 20121

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Knowledge mobilization using ICT•Hindrances

– Infrastructure– Institutionalization

•What is the alternative?– Use available social networking platforms– Democratization of knowledge

•“Last mile” connectivity?

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Crowdsourcing – what it means

•Success story – Wikipedia[Wikipedia is a free, collaborative, multilingual Internet encyclopedia … Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,

and it has about 100,000 regularly active contributors. … It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, … and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide. ]

Let people contribute to world body of knowledge with little mediation:Democratization of knowledge

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Twitter: a source of crowd-sourced information

• People do twit when disaster strikes

– Can be the source of instant information even before reported in media or communicated through other formal communication channels

– The shifting pattern of heat-map of twits can provide instant insight into spread / containment of disaster

• Twitter can also be a medium of instant communication to

– Grass-root workers

– Public at large

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Social Networking for training

• Training grass-root workers / public at large to cope up with disaster management is a gigantic task

– Paucity of trainers

• Tele-education approaches

– Self-paced learning: Training material on the web (motivation?)

– Tele-teaching: Video-conferencing / shared black-board (bandwidth?)

• Peer interaction for learning

– Facebook groups / blogs

– Wikis can be used to create knowledge assets in a democratic way

• Digital University

– Web-based formal teaching (with curriculum, assignment, etc.)

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Monitoring and Rewards

Monitoring and Rewards

Content Creation(Crowd-sourced)

Instructors

Classification and Annotations

Classification and Annotations

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Elementary contents

Elementary contents Custom

LecturesCustom Lectures

Students

Original contents

Create custom lectures by integrating contents and analysis

Interactive viewing, Personal notes

An eco-system of learning contents

Ratings

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