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Humanitarian Innovation
The document discusses humanitarian technology and innovation highlighted during the World Humanitarian Youth Summit held on September 1-2, 2015. It outlines Qatar Computing Research Institute's (QCRI) contributions to humanitarian efforts, including SMS classification through AIDR, the U-Report platform used by UNICEF, and the use of aerial imagery and computer vision for damage assessment. The timeline highlights various initiatives and responses to natural disasters from 2010 to 2015, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and technological advancement in humanitarian aid.
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- 1. Humanitarian Innovation World HumanitarianYouth Summit September 1 - 2, 2015
- 2. What is humanitariantech? Any technology used by anyone in humanitarian response
- 3. How is QCRIleading the way? Combine Research, Field Work, Active Deployments
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- 6. Project Collaboration withUN OCHA and the Standby Task Force.
- 7. AIDR SMS/WhatsApp classification AIDR-SMSClassification extension helps UNICEF classify SMS. The U-Report platform is a free and open-source SMS platform used by UNICEF to engage on a wide variety of issues across different countries. In Zambia, UNICEF is using U-Report for public health messaging and polling.
- 10. Aerial imagery andcomputer vision UAVs for aerial imagery: Fast deployment Easy maintenance High resolution imagery Oblique view Control flexibility Cheaper operational cost Aerial surveys to complement or accelerate the traditional field-based damage and needs assessment surveys. Buildings (e.g., dwellings, schools, hospitals, etc.) Transportation infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.) Logistic support
- 11. Aerial imagery andcomputer vision Hybrid approach human computing to annotate features of interest in aerial images machine computing to learn to recognize such features automatically in new, unseen images Computer vision challenges orthorectification: mapping between the image pixels and the real world coordinates image classification (filtering): not all images are relevant or interesting object detection: objects of interest do not have well-defined structure/geometry scene understanding: usually cluttered scene, difficult to understand
- 12. Timeline 2010 QCRI Created 2012QCRI’s Social Innovation Programme 2013 ● AIDR Development starts ● MicroMappers Development starts ● Uaviators Created ● Typhoon Haiyan Response with UN OCHA 2014 ● MicroMappers - Coconuts for Computer Vision ● UNICEF AIDR SMS - Zambia ● Typhoon Hagupit Response 2015 ● WoRDE prototype with Translators without Borders ● Cyclone Pam (Vanuatu Response) ● Nepal Earthquake Response
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- 15. Thank you Join MicroMappers.org JoinDigital Humanitarians in Qatar
Editor's Notes
- #2 Matter. Every day we want to do something that matters. This sense of ‘matter’ or ‘purpose’ differs from person to person. How can research matter a bit more in Qatar for Humanitarians? How can we activate and remix our lessons learned globally locally?
- #3 Technology of any sort - laptops, cell/mobile phones, desk tops, internet and social media applications, drones - that are used in some way to aid affected populations and/or humanitarian workers as they strive to recover from disaster and crisis situations
- #4 Actively involved with deployments and work closely with SBTF, MicroMappers, UN agencies. In addition, do in-house research on the state-of-the-art regarding the latest machine learning and NLP regarding processing social media data, continuously strive to understand our stakeholders’ needs, and design/implement around them.
- #5 Humanitarian Response includes social media, images, communication coordination, satellite phones. All photos were taken at the Qatar Red Crescent Disaster Management Camp, April 2015 by Heather Leson CCBY
- #6 The Social and Data source ecosystem is expanding. QCRI aims to be able to share insights across the various social media tools. Imagery, sensor and open data like OpenStreetMap provide the ability to see the data ecosystem to make decisions. Infographic Created with Infogr.am.
- #7 AIDR and MicroMappers http://booki.flossmanuals.net/aidr/
- #8 QCRI is working with UNICEF
- #9 MicroMappers combines uses human computing to make quick decisions about the content. All the decisions are vetted by at least 3 people. Then, the data is aggregated into information insights.
- #10 UAViators is a network of people inspired to use UAVs for social good. QCRI was instrumental in the network growth and continues to do research in computer vision in humanitarian spaces with collaborators like the UN and the World Bank. http://uaviators.org/ Photo from https://irevolution.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/screen-shot-2015-04-06-at-10-57-17-am.png http://irevolution.net/2015/04/07/digital-jedis-cyclone-pam/ http://irevolution.net/2015/04/07/digital-jedis-cyclone-pam/
- #11 can be captured and processed within hours rather than days of a disaster has a spatial resolution of orders of magnitude higher than the most sophisticated satellite imagery can be oblique rather than nadir (from satellites), which provides more detailed information about the landscape costs much less than satellite imagery Orthorectification: finding the correspondence between the image pixels and the real world coordinates
- #12 can be captured and processed within hours rather than days of a disaster has a spatial resolution of orders of magnitude higher than the most sophisticated satellite imagery can be oblique rather than nadir (from satellites), which provides more detailed information about the landscape costs much less than satellite imagery Orthorectification: finding the correspondence between the image pixels and the real world coordinates
- #13 QCRI has been researching and creating humanitarian software and new science since 2012. This is a brief overview of some of our key projects and some of the data from our activations with partners.
- #14 For the Nepal Earthquake response, there was over 2800 contributors from around the world. We are very thankful for their participation. And, we aim to inspire more digital humanitarian literacy and ownership in areas around the world.
- #15 QCRI is keen to inspire local residents in Qatar to get involved in the global space. We will be hosting in person trainings and workshops to help people learn some fo the skills and get involved in the global community. Image includes OSM, infogr.am, Wikipedia free image and photo of Ji Lucas training. Made with Canva.com - More details about this programme - http://textontechs.com/2015/08/digital-humanitarians-in-qatar/ (First Workshop is in October) http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/305095#map=8/25.428/50.916&layers=H
- #16 Thanks so much for your interest in QCRI. We hope that you are inspired to join our journey to use research and technology to support humanitarian innovation. You can get involved locally or globally. Here are some details about QCRI and activities http://textontechs.com/2015/08/digital-humanitarians-in-qatar/ http://irevolution.net/ http://micromappers.org/ @qatarcomputing http://micromappers.org/