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When you ask those responding to a crisis what one of the key challenges they faced over 80% of them will mention information overflow as the main issue they faced. With improved connectivity this problem has just become more difficult to handle.
“There comes a time in every person’s life that their focus shifts from success to significance” – Ed Granger-Happ, CIO IFRC/Chairman NetHope Some of you might have noticed that I have been rather quiet on the blogging front for the last month and a half....
At the NetHope Summit I got the pleasure of meeting one of Intel’s visionaries, Chris Thomaswho is their Chief Strategists. He gave an inspiring talk and one of the topics he discussed at lengths was what he called Occasionally Connected Clouds.
This week I am visiting Silicon Valley for the first time. The reason behind my visit is that NetHopeis holding its Member Summit here this week.
There is a lot of discussions these days on Malcom Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker on the role of social media in civic activism. In it he points out that many of the cases mentioned in the press around the use of Twitter are not as accurate as people...
This is a first blog post in a series of posts about key skills that crisis managers need to have in order to successfully manage crisis. Two years ago to the date, the prime minister of Iceland made a television address to the country, telling everyone...
It was very interesting to attend the International Crisis Mappers Conference in Boston this weekend. It was especially great to see all the passion in the room, especially from the volunteer grassroots community, but also very important to see key players...
Many years ago I was a program manager for a technology called Microsoft Repository. It was my first introduction to the world of metadata.
When disaster strikes there is an immediate flood of people who want to help out in any way they can. At the same time you have various tasks that need to be done that these people might be able to assist with.
“Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive pattern; data becomes information when its assembled into a coherent whole which can be related to other information; informationbecomes knowledge when its integrated with other information in a form that is...