Meier Digital Humanitarians

How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4822-4840-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 259 Seiten

The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood of information—social media, satellite imagery and more—is often referred to as Big Data. Making sense of this data deluge during disasters is proving an impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations, which explains why they’re turning to Digital Humanitarians. Who exactly are these Digital Humanitarians and how do they make sense of Big Data? Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response answers this question.

Digital Humanitarians are you, me, all of us—volunteers, students and professionals from the world over and from all walks of life. What do they share in common? They desire to make a difference, and they do by rapidly mobilizing online in collaboration with international humanitarian organizations. In virtually real-time, they make sense of vast volumes of social media, SMS and imagery captured from satellites and UAVs to support relief efforts worldwide. How? They craft and leverage ingenious crowdsourcing solutions with trail-blazing insights from artificial intelligence.

This book charts the sudden and spectacular rise of Digital Humanitarians by sharing their remarkable, real-life stories, highlighting how their humanity coupled with innovative solutions to Big Data is changing humanitarian response forever. Digital Humanitarians will make you think differently about what it means to be humanitarian and will invite you to join the journey online.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meier, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Rise of Digital Humanitarians
Mapping Haiti Live
Supporting Search And Rescue Efforts
Preparing For The Long Haul
Launching An SMS Life Line
Sending In The Choppers
Openstreetmap To The Rescue
Post-Disaster Phase
The Human Story
Doing Battle With Big Data
Rise Of Digital Humanitarians
This Book And You

The Rise of Big (Crisis) Data
Big (Size) Data
Finding Needles In Big (Size) Data
Policy, Not Simply Technology
Big (False) Data
Unpacking Big (False) Data
Calling 991 And 999
Big (Bias) Data Unpacked
To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet
How Many Tweets Are Enough?
The Demographic Game
Big (Risk) Data
Big (Decisions) Data

Crowd-Computing Social Media
A Pain In The Side Of Putin
Here Come The Crowdsourcerers
The Escalating Crisis In Libya
Time For Smart Crowdsourcing
Typhoon Season In The Philippines
Micromappers Vs Typhoon Yolanda

Crowd-Computing Disaster Imagery
Crowdsearching Flight 370
The Search Genghis Khan Leads To Somalia
From Astrophysics To Zoomanitarians
Uavs As Humanitarian Technologies
Uavs Take Off In The Philippines
Aerial Selfies For Disaster Response
Humanitarian UAV Network

Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response
Lees’ Guide To The Game Of Checkers
From Haystacks To Meadows
Tracking The Meadows Of Syria
The Red Cross Digital Operations Center
AIDR: Artificial Intelligence For Disaster Response
Big (SMS) Data

Artificial Intelligence in the Sky
Machine Learning With Pictures
Automated Imagery Analysis Of Haiti And Beyond
Coming Soon: Satellite Alchemy
Galaxy Class Machines
Artificial Intelligence At Digitalglobe
Automated Analysis Of UAV Imagery

Verifying Big Crisis Data
I’m Not Gaddafi
A Disease On The Map Of Russia
Wag The Dog Or Wag The Needle
Digital Sherlock Holmes
The Skype Detectives
Digital Scotland Yard
One, Two, Ten Red Weather Balloons
Surely, Verily, Truly

Verifying with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Rumors
BBC’s Big Data Blues
Groundbreaking Insights From Chile
Artificial Intelligence Beyond Chile And Tweets
Towards Some Tweetcred

Digital Humanitarians in the Arab Spring
Crowdsourcing Convoys
The Mapping Reflex
Prelude To An Egyptian Revolution
Crowdsourced Election Monitoring Results
Assessing The Impact Of Crowdsourced Monitoring
Digital Humanitarians Beyond The Arab Spring
The Future Of Digital Activist Humanitarians

Next Generation Digital Humanitarians
A Question Of Policy
Less Computing, More Enlightenment
Data Fission To Data Fusion
Mission Not So Impossible
The Future Of Data Privacy, Protection And Ethics
Open Data And #Noshare
Democratizing Humanitarian Technology
Game On, Digital Humanitarians
The Share Economy For Disaster Response
The Kind Of World I Want To Live In