Connectivity, data, and digital tools in disaster response, from Haiti and Ebola to the infrastructure the humanitarian system still lacks.
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...
A few years ago, under the great leadership of Eric Rasmussen the CEO of InSTEDD a set of exercises were run under the name StrongAngel. Those were a great success, but unfortunately with Eric’s move to InSTEDD they have not been repeated.
The title of this blog post is taken from an IGNITE talk that Akiko Harayma gave at the International Crisis Mappers Conference 2010 in Boston. In her talk she used the analogy of the humanitarian workers and the crowd-based volunteers being from two...
In this post I will discuss ways to streamline information management in crowded yet occassionally connected environments. Introduction Crowdsourcing is rapidly becoming an important tool to use in disaster response as I described in my previous post.
In this post I will discuss my mission to Haiti following the Haiti earthquake and the role technology played. Introduction Last January I was the team leader of the Icelandic Urban Search and Rescue team (ICE-SAR) that deployed to Haiti following the...
This post describes a disruption that is under way in humanitarian related information management and processing. It describes the role that both crowds and clouds will play in this disruption that will lead to better ability to handle crisis.
In this post I will discuss the need for closed collaboration groups for disaster coordination During a disaster the sharing of information is crucial. A large portion of that information is and should be publically available to everyone.