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Mobile Crisis Mapping (MCM)
I first blogged about Mobile Crisis Mapping (MCM) back in October 2008 and several times since. The purpose of this post to put together the big picture. What do I mean by MCM? Why is it important? And how would … Continue reading
Proposing the Field of Crisis Mapping
There are no books on Crisis Mapping, no peer-reviewed journals, no undergraduate or graduate courses, no professional seminars. And yet, after co-directing the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning (CM&EW) for 2-years, I can confirm … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis Mapping
Tagged Crisis Mapping, Disaster Response, Visual Analytics, Visualization
Folksomaps: Gold Standard for Community Mapping
There were a number of mapping-related papers, posters and demo’s at ICTD2009. One paper in particular caught my intention given the topic’s direct relevance to my ongoing consulting work with the UN’s Threat and Risk Mapping Analysis (TRMA) project in … Continue reading
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Tagged Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Folksomaps, ICTD2009, mapping, Mobile Phones, SMS, Social Web, Ushahidi, Web 2.0
Evaluating Accuracy of Data Collection on Mobile Phones
The importance of data validation is unquestioned but few empirical studies seek to assess the possible errors incurred during mobile data collection. Authors Somani Patnaik, Emma Brunskill and William Thies thus carried out what is possibly the first quantitative evaluation … Continue reading
Threat and Risk Mapping Analysis in Sudan
Massively informative. That’s how I would describe my past 10 days with the UNDP‘s Threat and Risk Mapping Analysis (TRMA) project in the Sudan. The team here is doing some of the most exciting work I’ve seen in the field … Continue reading
A Brief History of Crisis Mapping (Updated)
Introduction One of the donors I’m in contact with about the proposed crisis mapping conference wisely recommended I add a big-picture background to crisis mapping. This blog post is my first pass at providing a brief history of the field. … Continue reading
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Tagged Conflict Early Warning, Crisis Mapping, ETH, FAST, GDACS, GIS, Google Earth, GROW-net, Havaria, HealthMap, HHI, Human Rights, Neogeography, PRIO, Swisspeace, Ushahidi, Visualization, WarViews
Crisis Mapping Conference Proposal
Bridging the Divide in Crisis Mapping As mentioned in a recent blog post, my colleague Jen Ziemke and I are organizing a workshop on the topic of crisis mapping. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a small … Continue reading
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Tagged Crisis Mapping, development seed, geocommons, InSTEDD, Microsoft, OCHA, PnP, Reliefweb, Ushahidi
Crisis Mappers Meeting
Our first CrisisMappers meeting took place in Orlando, Florida this past weekend. The meeting brought together a small group of tech professionals who are at the very cutting edge of crisis mapping. It truly was a powerhouse. Ushahidi, Development Seed, … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing
Tagged Crisis Mapping, development seed, emergencity, geocommons, in.iniative.org, InSTEDD, nijel, Ushahidi
The Past and Future of Crisis Mapping
I’ve written about crisis mapping on this blog and elsewhere so what I want to do here is simply reflect on where we’ve been in the field and on what I’d like to see happening over the coming weeks, months … Continue reading
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Tagged Crisis Mapping, Humanitarian Technology Review, kenya, Mobile Phones
