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Cross-posted from iRevolution.net The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) activated the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) on December 5th at 3pm Geneva time (9am...
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View ArticleOnline volunteers help prepare the ground for Nepal emergency relief
https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/resources/newsletter_june_2015.html
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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/208180-crowdsourcing-data-for-humanitarian-disaster-response
View ArticleSummary: Digital Disaster Response to Philippine Typhoon
Cross-posted from iRevolution.net The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) activated the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) on December 5th at 3pm Geneva time (9am...
View ArticleHow the UN Used Social Media in Response to Typhoon Pablo (Updated)
Cross-posted from iRevolution.net. Our mission as digital humanitarians was to deliver a detailed dataset of pictures and videos (posted on Twitter) which depict damage and flooding following the...
View ArticleMoving testimony on the damage that digital activism can wreak…on ourselves
I can’t add much to this powerful piece by Cameran Ashraf, but I think many of us will recognise what he describes – whether from our own experiences, or from seeing some of our own digital...
View ArticleSocial Media, Crisis Mapping and the New Frontier in Disaster Response
A new article on TheGuardian.com Global Development Professionals Network talks about MicroMappers, our new microtasking tool, and how the work by Standby Task Force volunteers during the Philippines...
View ArticleHow AI, Twitter and Digital Volunteers are Transforming Humanitarian Disaster...
Great article by Katie Collins on Wired.co.uk on how the Standby Task Force, QCRI, UN OCHA, the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) and others worked together to use the new tool MicroMappers in...
View ArticleWorld Disasters Report 2013: Technology and the Future of Humanitarian Action
The World Disasters Report 2013, just released by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, examines the profound impact of technological innovations on humanitarian...
View ArticleMicroMappers: Towards Next Generation Humanitarian Technology
Check out this great piece on some big things happening in the digital humanitarian community. Each response is an opportunity to identify our best practices, hone our tools and enhance our capacity....
View ArticleOnline volunteers help prepare the ground for Nepal emergency relief
https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/resources/newsletter_june_2015.html
View ArticleDisaster response gets boost from AI, crowdsourced data
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/208180-crowdsourcing-data-for-humanitarian-disaster-response
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