National Geographic Live! – Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping

The purpose of this Working Paper on Crisis Mapping is to briefly analyze the current use, and changing role, of information communication technology (ICT) in conflict early warning, crisis mapping and humanitarian response. We demonstrate that ICTs ...

In a disaster, information can be as valuable as water, food or shelter. The Red Cross is using tools such as radio and SMS to provide people with simple but life-saving information that can help them to prepare for, survive and then recover from fut...

Over the past 20 years, disasters due to natural hazards have affected 4.4 billion people, claimed 1.3 million lives and caused 2 trillion US dollars in economic losses. These disasters not only brought death and destruction, they did so disproportio...