Objectives: 1. Gain an understanding of key trends in ICT innovation which are influencing/disrupting crisis informatics. 2. Be able to trace these trends through discussions later this semester, and understand their influence and potential. 3. Introduce visualization lab
User experience at the dawn of Gov 2.0. The U.S. government is embarking on what could potentially be a major change in how it does business and this presentation is intended to help Web professionals understand the Open Government movement.
Change IT!
S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Boulder
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 Hour
Dr. Revi Sterling founded and directs the only Information and Communication Technology for Development graduate program in the United States. This talk would demonstrate how IT (ICT as the rest of the world calls it) has given a quantum boost to international development efforts, and will give examples of what works and what doesn’t when technologists turn humanitarians. This talk will open avenues for technologists of all types and levels to truly make impact with their ideas, while promoting collaboration rather than competition. Sterling will point audiences to helpful resources while catalyzing their creativity.
Slideshare lost the previous upload which had nearly 70K views. Re-uploading. http://knoesis.org/?q=node/2633
With the explosion in social media (1B+ Facebook users, 500M+ Twitter users) and ubiquitous mobile access (6B+ mobile phone subscribers) sharing their observations and opinions, we have unprecedented opportunities to extract social signals, create spatio-temporal mappings, perform analytics on social data, and support applications that vary from situational awareness during crisis response, preparedness and rebuilding phases to advanced analytics on social data, and gaining valuable insights to support improved decision making.This tutorial weaves three themes and corresponding relevant topics- a.) citizen sensing and crisis mapping, b.) technical challenges and recent research for leveraging citizen sensing to improve crisis response coordination, and c.) experiences in building robust and scalable platforms/systems. It will couple technical insights with identification of computational techniques and algorithms along with real-world examples. We will also do exemplary demos of the features in the Sahana, CrowdMap (Ushahidi's version) and Twitris platforms while elaborating on the practical issues and pitfalls of the development and operation of these large-scale platforms, especially during the real-time crisis response
Objectives: 1. Gain an understanding of key trends in ICT innovation which are influencing/disrupting crisis informatics. 2. Be able to trace these trends through discussions later this semester, and understand their influence and potential. 3. Introduce visualization lab
User experience at the dawn of Gov 2.0. The U.S. government is embarking on what could potentially be a major change in how it does business and this presentation is intended to help Web professionals understand the Open Government movement.
Change IT!
S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Boulder
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 Hour
Dr. Revi Sterling founded and directs the only Information and Communication Technology for Development graduate program in the United States. This talk would demonstrate how IT (ICT as the rest of the world calls it) has given a quantum boost to international development efforts, and will give examples of what works and what doesn’t when technologists turn humanitarians. This talk will open avenues for technologists of all types and levels to truly make impact with their ideas, while promoting collaboration rather than competition. Sterling will point audiences to helpful resources while catalyzing their creativity.
Slideshare lost the previous upload which had nearly 70K views. Re-uploading. http://knoesis.org/?q=node/2633
With the explosion in social media (1B+ Facebook users, 500M+ Twitter users) and ubiquitous mobile access (6B+ mobile phone subscribers) sharing their observations and opinions, we have unprecedented opportunities to extract social signals, create spatio-temporal mappings, perform analytics on social data, and support applications that vary from situational awareness during crisis response, preparedness and rebuilding phases to advanced analytics on social data, and gaining valuable insights to support improved decision making.This tutorial weaves three themes and corresponding relevant topics- a.) citizen sensing and crisis mapping, b.) technical challenges and recent research for leveraging citizen sensing to improve crisis response coordination, and c.) experiences in building robust and scalable platforms/systems. It will couple technical insights with identification of computational techniques and algorithms along with real-world examples. We will also do exemplary demos of the features in the Sahana, CrowdMap (Ushahidi's version) and Twitris platforms while elaborating on the practical issues and pitfalls of the development and operation of these large-scale platforms, especially during the real-time crisis response
Hastily formed networks, Refugee connectivity, cybersecurity, and emerging digital threats and challenges presented at the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University, August 2019
Many experts say the rise of embedded and wearable computing will bring the next revolution in digital technology. They say the upsides are enhanced health, convenience, productivity, safety, and more useful information for people/organizations. The downsides: challenges to personal privacy, over-hyped expectations, and boggling tech complexity. Lee Rainie shares the latest research from Pew about libraries and puts it into context with the expanding Internet of Things.
Open Government: Policy,Technology, and Community in the US & CanadaDeborah Bryant
Keynote Presentation to the OpenIsland OpenGov conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland focusing on the confluence of interests and energy between the open government, open data and open source software communities.
CrisisCommons Congressional Testimony - Statement of the Record AttachmentsHeather Blanchard
Attachments for the Statement for the Record of Heather Blanchard, Co Founder of CrisisCommons before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, United States Senate on May 19, 2011
Framework for talking about Information Ethics and Social Justice in professional librarianship. Emphasis on making sure patrons at all levels of ICT access and literacy are being served.
Digital Public Diplomacy: Transparency is the New Conversation - Data as the Story of the 21st Century. A presentation for New York University class on Public Affairs: Public Opinion and Issues Management
Hastily formed networks, Refugee connectivity, cybersecurity, and emerging digital threats and challenges presented at the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University, August 2019
Many experts say the rise of embedded and wearable computing will bring the next revolution in digital technology. They say the upsides are enhanced health, convenience, productivity, safety, and more useful information for people/organizations. The downsides: challenges to personal privacy, over-hyped expectations, and boggling tech complexity. Lee Rainie shares the latest research from Pew about libraries and puts it into context with the expanding Internet of Things.
Open Government: Policy,Technology, and Community in the US & CanadaDeborah Bryant
Keynote Presentation to the OpenIsland OpenGov conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland focusing on the confluence of interests and energy between the open government, open data and open source software communities.
CrisisCommons Congressional Testimony - Statement of the Record AttachmentsHeather Blanchard
Attachments for the Statement for the Record of Heather Blanchard, Co Founder of CrisisCommons before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, United States Senate on May 19, 2011
Framework for talking about Information Ethics and Social Justice in professional librarianship. Emphasis on making sure patrons at all levels of ICT access and literacy are being served.
Digital Public Diplomacy: Transparency is the New Conversation - Data as the Story of the 21st Century. A presentation for New York University class on Public Affairs: Public Opinion and Issues Management
We had the honour to share the CrisisCommons /CrisisCamp story at the :
2010 Provincial Emergency Conference
Canadian Red Cross
November 10, 2010
Heather Leson, Brian Chick, Melanie Gorka and David Black
The Conference: http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=32347&tid=067
Katherine Boss is the Librarian for Journalism, Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. Her research focuses on the issues facing born-digital news content and pedagogies in library instruction. She holds a bachelor’s in Journalism from Grand Valley State University and two master’s degrees, in Library and Information Science from Long Island University, and in Media Studies from The New School. She is the co-leader of the Archiving and Preserving News Applications Working Group of the Journalism Digital News Archive.
Transforming Social Big Data into Timely Decisions and Actions for Crisis Mi...Amit Sheth
Keynote @ Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP)
Co-located with: The Web Conference 2018 (formerly WWW)
Lyon, France. 23 April 2018
Abstract:
Crises are imposing massive costs to economies worldwide. Natural disasters caused record $306 billion in damage to the U.S. in 2017! Real-time gathering of relevant data through ubiquitous presence of mobile technologies and the ability to disseminate them through social media has forever changed how disaster and health crisis monitoring and response are now carried out. Both tradition crisis response organization as well as temporary, informal, self-organized and community-based organizations have come to increasingly rely on social media. Furthermore, ability to collect, repurpose and reuse data from past events is helping with preparedness and planning for future events.
In this talk, I will review our extensive experience on (a) interactions with variety of stakeholders involved in emergency response at city, county, country and international levels, (b) research on real-time social media analysis spanning spatio-temporal-thematic; people-content-network; linguistic-sentiment-emotion-intent analysis dimensions, (c) development and use of crisis response specific tools (location identification, demand-supply match) and the comprehensive Twitris semantic social intelligence system (which is also commercialized as Cognovi Labs), and (d) a variety of real-world evaluations and real-time uses (e.g., supplying data for Google Crisis map during Uttarakhand Floods, rescue during Kashmir Floods, neighborhood image map during Chennai Floods, providing information to FEMA during Oklahoma tornados), spread of disease and epidemiology (e.g., Zika spread), metro-level multi-agency disaster preparedness exercise, etc.
https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/kripa/smerp2018/SMERP-at-Web2018-keynote.pdf
Social Data and Multimedia Analytics for News and Events Applications lecture given at 2015 IEEE SPS Italy Chapter Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P)
Heather Blanchard, Co Founder of CrisisCommons, presentation at the Fleming Europe's 2nd Annual Geospatial Conference (http://www.flemingeurope.com/aviation-and-defence-conferences/europe/2nd-annual-geospatial-intelligence-summit)
Here's my presentation at NewComm Forum 2010: "Social and Entrepreneurial: The Paths to the New Journalism," a look at the fast-evolving journalism and social media landscape, the opportunities for new players, and why the old guard won't survive if they don't make significant changes to their corporate cultures.
We live in a “digital” world, the separation between physical and virtual makes (almost) no sense anymore. Here, the Corona pandemic has also acted as an accelerator/magnifier demonstrating that the future of our digital society is here with all its possibilities, but also shortcomings.
In his talk, Hannes Werthner will briefly reflect on the history of computer science, and then discuss the need for an interdisciplinary response to these shortcomings. Such an answer is the Digital Humanism, which looks at this interplay of technology and humankind, it analyzes, and, most importantly, tries to influence the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life. In the second part he will discuss this approach, and show what was achieved since its first workshop in 2019, and what lies ahead.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
1. Citizen Journalism, Citizen
Activism, and Technology
Positioning Technology as a
‘’Second Superpower’ in Times of
Disaster and Terrorism
by Sharon Meraz
2. Context
• How can the new power of the Internet be
leveraged in times of
– Disasters
– Terrorism
• How has technology been shaped and
utilized by citizens to frame
– Disaster response management
– Citizen journalism
– Global Web initiatives
– Self help, self organizing, emergent networks
– Collective wisdom
3. Social Computing
• Not a new phenomenon
• Way back in 1940s to Memex (Allen, 2005)
• BBSs, Usenets, IRC (Rheingold, 1993)
• Current enthusiasm due to
– Web 2.0 as collaboration/sharing
– Architected for participation (SOA)
– Toolkit for lightweight apps (AJAX, APIs, RSS)
– Rapid application development (Web services)
• Mounting interest in social computing
– Blogs, wikis, social software, mobile technologies
4. Social Computing
• Allows users to participate more (BYOC)
• Visible spirit of collaboration/generosity
– Gift economy, p2p development, bazaar design,
hacker ethic
• Technologies of Cooperation (Saveri et al)
• Trigger network effects in vulnerable times
– Emergent
– Spontaneous
– Citizen-led
– Citizen-shaped
5.
6. Theoretical Model
• Interdisciplinary approach
– Science Studies Theories
• Science, technology, capitalism, control, power
• Technological determinism vs social shaping
• Emergence in Networks (Spontaneous)
– Distributed, decentralized, bottom-up
– The Wisdom of crowds (James Suroweicki)
– The Power of many (Christian Crumlish)
– Small pieces loosely joined (David Weinberger)
– Linked: The science of networks (Albert-Laszlo
Barabasi)
7. Events
• 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake
– Tsunamis affecting Southeast Asia and
Africa, over 175,000 deaths
• July 2005 London Bombings
– Dubbed 7/7
• August 2005 US Hurricane Katrina
– New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, over
1,400 deaths
8. Methodology
• How was social software/technology
used/shaped for disaster management?
• 3 pronged with snowball sample.
– Used technorati for tag-based searching
• Multiple user-generated tags for each event
– Monitored ‘A-list’ blogs for information on media/c-
journalism happenings
– Searched Lexis Nexus for Big Media reports
• In addition for Hurricane Katrina (live):
– Monitored c-journalism/A-list blogs in RSS reader
9. Results
• MSM reports on Citizen Journalism
– Indian Ocean Earthquake
• Unanticipated event
• Vivid, immediate reporting from blogs
• Accidental, unintentional, incidental c-journalists
– London Bombings
• Gap between amateur/professional shrinking
• Democratization of news
• Sea change in journalism practice (genie out of bottle)
– Hurricane Katrina
• MSM and C-Journalism as different/shared perspectives
• Complementary vs oppositional relationship
10. Results
• Mobile Technologies
– SMS used to post to
• Blog, send text messages for relief/aid/fundraising
coordination, find missing (Morquendi)
– Phone cameras/video
• 7/7 incident, 20,000 emails, 1000 photos to BBC, 20
videos, used on Sky News, BBC, Guardian, AP
– Less in Hurricane Katrina
• Possibly less of a mobile phone culture
• More of the poor left stranded in region
• Infrastructure wiped out
11.
12. Results
• Blogs as inside eyes/ears of disaster
– Rise of video blogging in 2004
– Global connections (SEA-EAT blog)
• 21,000 visitors in 24 hrs, 10th most visited humanitarian
site on Internet
– Photo blogging growth, Flickr pools
– First hand reporting (Brian Oberkirch,
Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog, Michael Barnett,
The Interdictor)
– Relief coordination
• 1,347,493 (right), 200,000 (left)
13. Results
• Wiki journalism--can this work?
– Exchange of resources, safety bulletin boards,
missing person’s reports/registry
– Wikipedia entry on 7/7 incident edited 5,000 times
– Global, transparent connections
• Group collaboration
• Skype phone banks
• Shelters/Databases for the missing
• Virtual lightposts
• Recovery 2.0 wiki after Katina
– Clearinghouse for disaster recovery efforts
14. Results
• Tech Development
– Global in Scope: Taran Rampersad and
Dan Lane on Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC)
built in one night
– Responsiveness of citizen-initiatives
– Jonathan Mendez/Greg Stoll using Google
Maps API for housing damage mapping
• Katrina, Rita, Wilma
15. Results
• KatrinaPeopleFinder Project
– Correct problems of distributed redundancy
– Create a central database
– David Geilhufe, Ethan Zuckerman, Zack Rosen,
Jon Lebowsky
– Volunteer programmers, project leaders, data
entry volunteers
– Data entry chunks of 25 records with over 3,000
volunteers, 620,000 records
– PeopleFinder Interchange Format (PFIF)
• Need tactics to swarm better (Jeff Jarvis)
16. Conclusion
• Social software significant to
– Emergent alternative journalism
– Citizen disaster management response
– Self organization, smart, networked mob
• Citizen Paparazzi (Sousveillance)
– Many little brothers and sisters
– See, snap, send impulse (Spy, Scoopt, Cell J)
– Private/public space boundaries
• Accessibility of the technology
– Needs a smart network with focal nodes
