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Search Results for: georgia
Cyclones in Cyberspace? How Crowdsourced Cyber Warfare Shaped the Russian-Georgia War
“Cyclones in Cyberspace: Information Shaping and Denial in the 2008 Russia-Georgia War” was just published in Security Dialogue, a respected peer-reviewed journal. The article analyzes “the impact of cyberspace on the conflict between Russia and Georgia over the disputed territory of South … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Activism, iRevolution
Tagged Conflict, cyberspace, cyberwar, DDOS, georgia, Russia, war
New Detailed South Ossetia and Georgia Maps
New highly detailed maps of South Ossetia provided by the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The titles associated with each map also comes from the Georgian government. I imagine these maps will eventually be available as KML files on Google … Continue reading
New Crisis Maps of Georgia
A new set of crisis maps of Georgia have been posted over the past few days. Jonathan Thomas has kept us well informed of these developments, which include a detailed map provided by Microsoft, an OCHA map and updated layers … Continue reading
Crisis Mapping the Conflict in Georgia (Updated)
Update: Jon Thompson had initially mistakenly blogged that all roads/cities in Georgia had “disappeared” from Google Maps and Google Earth. A colleague of mine at Google has since informed me that they never had a roads layer for Georgia. According … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis Mapping
Tagged Conflict, Conflict Early Warning, Crisis Mapping, georgia, Google Earth
Joining the Qatar Foundation to Advance Humanitarian Technology
Big news! I’ll be taking a senior level position at the Qatar Foundation to work on the next generation of humanitarian technology solutions. I’ll be based at the Foundation’s Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and be working alongside some truly amazing … Continue reading
Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC)
Communication is Aid: Curated tweets and commentary from the CDAC Network’s Media and Technology Fair, London 2012. My commentary in blue. This is the first time I’ve used Storify to curate content. (I bumped into the co-founder of the platform at SXSW … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Humanitarian Tech, Social Media
Tagged aid, CDAC, Communication, Disasters, Network
Crowdsourcing Satellite Imagery Analysis for UNHCR-Somalia: Latest Results
253,711 That is the total number of tags created by 168 volunteers after processing 3,909 satellite images in just five days. A quarter of a million tags in 120 hours; that’s more than 2,000 tags per hour. Wow. As mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Humanitarian Tech, Satellite Imagery, Ushahidi
Applying Earthquake Physics to Conflict Analysis
I really enjoyed speaking with Captain Wayner Porter whilst at PopTech 2011 last week. We both share a passion for applying insights from complexity science to different disciplines. I’ve long found the analogies between earthquakes and conflicts intriguing. We often talk of geopolitical … Continue reading
Posted in iRevolution
Tagged #PopTech2011, analysis, Conflict, earthquake, Physics, PopTech, Statistics, ZTH
The Mathematics of War: On Earthquakes and Conflicts
A conversation with my colleague Sinan Aral at PopTech 2011 reminded me of some earlier research I had carried out on the mathematics of war. So this is a good time to share some of the findings from this research. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Early Warning
Tagged #PopTech2011, Complexity, Conflict, laws, patterns, PopTech, power, Violence, war
Can Live Crisis Maps Help Prevent Mass Atrocities?
Live crisis maps tell stories, hopefully compelling stories the last chapters of which have yet to be written. To paraphrase my New York Times colleague Anand Giridharadas: They used to say that history is written by the victors. But today, … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Digital Activism, Social Media
