31 Mar 2015
This report was commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding and Haiti Working Group. It examines the role of Ushahidi, a crisis-mapping platform, in the disaster relief effo...
Tags: Report, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
23 Apr 2015
Josh Campbell from the Humanitarian Information Unit at the US Department of State, discusses building a framework to support sharing high-resolution satellite imagery with the volunteer technical community, for improved disaster response and develop...
Tags: Video, Mapping and Geospatial Data
16 Jun 2015
Excellent video, in Japanese with English subtitles, on the effects of powerful Tsunami and how we can best prepare for them. The video also highlights a lot of myths and mistruths about Tsunami behaviour that must be weeded out if lives are to be sa...
Tags: Video, Tsunami