23 Sep 2015
Crowdsourcing integrated with crisis maps has been a powerful tool in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Future crowdsourcing applications must provide capabilities to better manage unstructured messages and enhance streaming data. Enhancem...
Tags: Awareness material, Report, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Social Media in Disasters
26 Nov 2017
The host of the 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop is Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). The Workshop will be in a facility near the HKO Headquarters. The Workshop will be 31 October and 1 November. It will be preceded by a CAP Tra...
Tags: Report, Early Warning Systems
16 Jun 2015
This report is the second of its kind, analyzing displacement trends within the first half of 2014. The figures in this report were collected from governments and UNHCR offices around the world. UNHCR introduced a new online data collection tool to e...
Tags: Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Risk Reduction