Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities
Communication is Aid: Curated tweets and commentary from CDAC's Media and Technology Fair, London 2012
"After the Japan earthquake, >20% of ALL web queries issued were on tsunamis." @spangledrongo #commisaid- Would be great to see how this type of search data compares to data from Tweets. Take this analysis of tweets following the earthquake in Chile, for example.
- And as a result, crisis-affected communities are increasingly becoming digital as I note in this blog post.
Closed systems+closed data will be left behind and unused:crisis response is social and collaboration is empowering @CDACNetwork #commisaid
RT @catherinedem: Crisis response is #social - online social collaboration spikes during and after disaster @spangledrongo #commisaid
"It is essential to have authoritative content" Nigel Snoad at @CDACNetwork's Media & Tech Fair #commisaid- Does this mean that all user-generated content should be ignored because said content does not necessarily come from a known and authoritative source? Who decides what is authoritative?
we don't empower communities by giving them info,they empower themselves by giving us info that we can act on-@komunikasikan #commisaid- What if this information is not authoritative because it does not come from official sources?
RT @ushahidi: "In a crisis, the mobile internet stays most resilient, even more than SMS." #commisaid Nigel Snoad- RT @jqg: Empower local communities to generate their own tools and figure out their own solutions #commisaid
- See this blog post on Democratizing ICT for Development Using DIY Innovation and Open Data.
Through #Mission4636 SMS system, radio presenter @carelpedre was able to communicate directly with affected people in Haiti #commisaid- This is rather interesting, I hadn't realized that radio stations in Haiti actively used the information from the Ushahidi Haiti 4636 project.
Fascinating talk with @carelpedre- many of #Haiti 's pre-earthquake twitter users came from @juno7's lottery push notifications #Commisaid
- Internews: Innovation comes within, info comes from within, people will find ways to communicate no matter what #commisaid @CDACNetwork
- So best of luck to those who wish to regulate this space! As my colleague Tim McNamara has noted "Crisis mapping is not simply a technological shift, it is also a process of rapid decentralisation of power. With extremely low barriers to entry, many new entrants are appearing in the fields of emergency and disaster response. They are ignoring the traditional hierarchies, because the new entrants perceive that there is something that they can do which benefits others."
@souktel: "be simple, be creative and learn from the community around you" #commisaid- Tools shouldn't own data. RT @whiteafrican: "It's not about the platform being open, it's about the data being open"- @jcrowley #commisaid
- Cutting edge is to get the #crowd & the #algorithm to filter each other in filtering massive overload of information in a crisis #commisaid
- As Robert Kirkpatrick likes to say, "Use the hunch of the expert, machine algorithms and the wisdom of the crowd."
- "How long until the disaster affected communities start analyzing the aid agencies?" #commisaid
