Brendan O’Hanrahan at the seminar: Digital Humanitarianism and Networked Crisis Support, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway, 19th October 2013 Digital Humanitarians is a wide description of individuals and NGOs using digital tools for collaboration, mapping, analyzing or data-mining for humanitarian purposes and in humanitarian contexts. They typically engage for humanitarian crises, natural disasters, democracy projects, human rights monitoring or disaster preparedness. There are digital tools, procedures and ethical questions they all have in common.

1. Tales
of
a
crisis
mapper
Various
aspects
of
crisis
mapping,
good,
bad
and
ugly….
2011-­‐2013

3. Homs
–
geography
of
the
ini2al
revolt

4. U6arakhand
(N
India)
–
devasta2ng
flash
floods,
June
2013

5. Khartoum
floods
–
August
2013

6. Aerial
view
of
Khartoum
floods
August
2013

7. Umap
for
Khartoum
floods
-­‐
priority
areas
for
satellite
imagery
and
HOT
digi2sing

8. Following
the
UNISPACE
III
conference
held
in
Vienna,
Austria
in
July
1999,
the
European
and
French
space
agencies
(ESA
and
CNES)
ini2ated
the
Interna2onal
Charter
"Space
and
Major
Disasters“.
The
Interna2onal
Charter
aims
at
providing
a
unified
system
of
space
data
acquisi2on
and
delivery
to
those
affected
by
natural
or
man-­‐made
disasters
through
Authorized
Users.
Each
member
agency
has
commi6ed
resources
to
support
the
provisions
of
the
Charter
and
thus
is
helping
to
mi2gate
the
effects
of
disasters
on
human
life
and
property.

10.
Sudan
floods
placenames
database

11. Abena
protests,
Sept
2013
–
loca2ons
in
Khartoum

12. Cyclone
Phailin
Odisha
and
Andhra
Pradesh
–
October
2013