Semantic Social Mashup approach for Designing Citizen Diplomacy

Designing Citizen Diplomacy Amit P Sheth LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) Wright State University, Dayton, OH Thanks to Ashutosh Jadhav, Hemant Purohit. {ashutosh, hemant}@knoesis.orgThursday, January 27, 2011

Current State of CommunicationThursday, January 27, 2011

Current State of Communication Mobile Devices/Communication and Social Networking/Media Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flicker, Blogs etc. NGO: Red Cross, Ushahidi, eMoksha etc. Exceptional connectivity, easy and open access Facebook: 500 M, Twitter 100 M users Mobile users: 5 Bln, Internet Users: 1.8 Bln Red Cross: 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwideThursday, January 27, 2011

Current State of Communication “The U.S. government has been largest donor to the Pakistan flood relief effort, allocating $200 million to date. Yet a recent Pew Foundation poll found about 59% of Pakistanis describe the U.S. as an enemy, while just 11% say it is a partner.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/bombing-the-pakistan-floo_b_684998.htmlThursday, January 27, 2011

Current State of Communication Social media and Mobile applications doesn’t really resolve conﬂicts, misunderstanding between countries Doesn’t help to inﬂuence mindsets to avoid terror attacks, wars But it can act as RAW tools for CDThursday, January 27, 2011

Designing Citizen Diplomacy Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince” Taking action to prevent conﬂicts and promote peaceThursday, January 27, 2011

Designing Citizen Diplomacy Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince” Taking action to prevent conﬂicts and promote peace Educating each other of all types of differences, misunderstanding about religious, ideological, cultural, ethnic, national and political differencesThursday, January 27, 2011

Designing Citizen Diplomacy Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince” Taking action to prevent conﬂicts and promote peace Voice of the Moderation Hidden under extremist inﬂuenceThursday, January 27, 2011

Designing Citizen Diplomacy Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince” Taking action to prevent conﬂicts and promote peace Coordination Building communities of trust – Online & OfﬂineThursday, January 27, 2011

Socio-technical System Facilitating advancements in social media and mobile communications Provides following four levels of support level 1: meet, communicate and engage level 2: converse and coordinate, gain insight level 3: inﬂuence and advocate level 4: sustain, educate and transformThursday, January 27, 2011

TwitrisThursday, January 27, 2011

Twitris Semantic Social Web Mash-up Facilitates understanding of multi-dimensional social perceptions over SMS, Tweets, multimedia Web content, electronic news mediaThursday, January 27, 2011

Twitris Semantic Social Web Mash-upThursday, January 27, 2011

Twitris Knowledge-Enabled Computing Domain models to enhance understanding of the contentThursday, January 27, 2011

Twitris Co-ordination !  Co-ordinating needs and resources in disaster situations! !  Analyzing SMS and Web reports from Ushahidi.org! !  Use of domain models for efﬁcient and timely coordination !Thursday, January 27, 2011

Twitris Socio-Cultural-Behavior model as lens ! Modeling relationships between social behavior, roles, social & cultural values etc.Thursday, January 27, 2011

Twitris Community Formation -  Homophily in society! -  Bond of common interest! -  TRUST factor!Thursday, January 27, 2011

References 1. A. Huffington, Facebook, Twitter and the Search for Peace in the Middle East, Huffinton Post, Nov 24, 2010 2. A. Kilkinney, Bombing the Pakistan Flood Victims Into Submission, Huffington Post, Aug 17, 2010 3. Economics focus: Exploding misconceptions, The Economist, Dec 16, 2010 4. J. Williams, A Realistic Vision for World Peace, TED Talks, Dec 2010 5. U.S. Summit and Initiative For Global Citizen Diplomacy, Washington, DC, November 16-19, 2010 6. M. Nagarajan et al., Spatio-Temporal-Thematic Analysis of Citizen-Sensor Data - Challenges and Experiences, Tenth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Oct 5-7, 2009, Poland. 7. A. Sheth, Semantic Integration of Citizen Sensor Data and Multilevel Sensing: A comprehensive path towards event monitoring and situational awareness, February 17, 2009. 8. D. Gruhl et al., Multimodal Social Intelligence in a Real-Time Dashboard System, VLDB Journal on Data Management and Mining for Social Networks and Social Media, 2010 9. B. Aleman-Meza et al. Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection. In Proceedings of 15th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23–26, 2006, New York: ACM Press, 2006, pp. 406–416. 10. A. Sheth et al., Continuous Semantics to Analyze Real-Time Data, IEEE Internet Computing, November-December 2010, pp. 80-85. 11. M. Nagarajan et al.,A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices, 4th Intl AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2010Thursday, January 27, 2011

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Semantic Social Mashup approach for Designing Citizen Diplomacy

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