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Jennie Phillips

How AI, Twitter and digital volunteers are transforming humanitarian disaster response ... - 0 views

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Jennie Phillips

How technology is changing disaster relief | Forum:Blog Forum:Blog | The World Economic... - 0 views

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  • Between 2004 and 2013, there was a 430% increase in global funding requirements for humanitarian appeals, while the number of people affected nearly doubled.
  • are under increasing pressure to cut spending
  • more than half of the world’s refugees live in urban areas
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  • In the aftermath of a disaster, restoring connectivity and the cellular network has become as important as providing life-saving assistance
  • local civil-society groups, private-sector companies and volunteer networks is expanding the reach of humanitarian work
  • A small group of government donors provides nearly 70% of humanitarian funding, and the bulk goes to a few large international organizations and NGOs.
  • diverse in nature,
  • unpredictable
  • high-pressure, rapidly changing operations, often in insecure and dangerous conditions, relief workers have little space to try out new ideas.
  • increasing scrutiny and criticism from the public
  • humanitarians are increasingly turning to businesses and the private sector to learn how to be innovative and better manage innovation
  • using social media for needs assessment, community-led risk mapping, crisis insurance, mobile money, local production of relief supplies with 3D printers, and so on
  • require unprecedented collaboration between humanitarian organizations, governments and businesses.
Jennie Phillips

Digital Humanitarian Response: Moving from Crowdsourcing to Microtasking | iRevolution - 0 views

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MSFAGA2014 humanitarian response crowdsourcing

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  • real-time monitor-ing, tagging and geo-location of relevant reports published on mainstream and social media
  • Google Spreadsheets was simply not de-signed to facilitate real-time monitoring, tagging and geo-location tasks by hundreds of digital volunteers collaborating synchronously and asynchronously across multiple time zones.
  • I often describe micro-tasking as “smart crowdsourcing”.
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  • Micro-tasking is simply the process of taking a large task and breaking it down into a series of smaller tasks
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