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Ideas on future of Crisis Information Management.
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Small ideasSanjana Hattotuwa
TED Fellow
Focus on process, not just spikesNarrow band over time adds richness, full spectrum adds context
Local language(s)CultureLocal actorsDiasporaHagiography and mythIdentity and powerPartisan politicsRegional power blocsInequityDemographics (Youth)Civic mediaVerbal storytelling
filter bubbles
• "A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To Your Interests Right Now Than People Dying In Africa", Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook
• Human gatekeepers being replaced by algorithmic gatekeepers.
• A new, pervasive, almost invisible, systemic filtering?
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
filtering to counter filter bubbles
• Ushahidi SwiftRiver | http://ushahidi.com/products/swiftriver-platform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0Gs7vtrgk
SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.
In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.
open data
open data
open data in government
open data in government
open data by NGOs
open data on NGOs
CiM drivers from other domains
• Music industry (pattern based search, e.g. Pandora’s technical + human indexing), social networking (group collaboration,e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook), social networking search (e.g. Grepling), mobile phone apps (e.g. Guardly), marketing engines (e.g. adaptive persuasion profiling), digital forensics (e.g. hyperspectral imaging with UAVs), ground truth profiling (e.g. UNOSAT images on Sri Lanka) many sourcing for situational awareness (e.g. Microsoft Photosynth), Open Data Initiatives (e.g. British, US govt’s, World Bank), visualisation (e.g. Infomous)
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