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, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Social Media in Disasters
30 Oct 2013
The report summarizes some of the presentations given at the 11. Forum Katastrophenvorsorge, 18.-19. January, 2011, in Potsdam/Germany. Link to document http://www.dkkv.org/DE/links/ressource.asp?ID=312
Tags: Report, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Tornado, Volcano
29 Jan 2015
Recognizing a need to develop and strengthen urban-focused practitioner and policy-making ties with academia, and disseminate evidence-based development programming, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project, USAID’s Urban ...
Tags: Report, Urban Preparedness