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2015 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop – Report and Presentations

25 Sep 2015
The 2015 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, held on 23–24 September 2015 in Rome, Italy, brought together over 120 experts from around the world to share technical experiences and advance the use of CAP for effective emergency ...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

World Disasters Report 2015: Focus on local actors, the key to humanitarian effectiveness

24 Sep 2015
Local actors are often the most effective in conducting humanitarian operations. However, despite their critical role, they struggle to attract the funding and support they need. The 2015 World Disasters Report – by the International Federation of ...
Report
Video

ICCM 2013: Jus MacKinnon: Media Monitoring in support of UN-OCHA’s response to Typhoon Yolanda

23 Sep 2015
Justine MacKinnon from the Standby Task Force discusses Media Monitoring and Mapping in support of UN-OCHA’s response to Typhoon Yolanda. Working with the Digital Humanitarian Network & wonderful volunteers from around the world to examine...
Video, Mapping and Geospatial Data
Awareness material, Report

Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief

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...
Awareness material, Report, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Social Media in Disasters
Video

National Geographic Live! – Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping

23 Sep 2015
Emerging Explorer Patrick Meier pioneers the lifesaving new field of crisis mapping, which is helping revolutionize the effectiveness of relief efforts worldwide.
Video, Mapping and Geospatial Data
Research

Integrating Social Media Communications into the Rapid Assessment of Sudden Onset Disasters

23 Sep 2015
Recent research on automatic analysis of social media data during disasters has given insight into how to provide valuable and timely information to formal response agencies—and members of the public—in these safety-critical situations. For the m...
Research
Report

Humanitarianism in the Network Age

23 Sep 2015
A new report from OCHA explores how new communications technologies are already changing the face of disaster response. “Humanitarianism in the Network Age” (HINA) examines the implications for how a world of increasingly informed, connected and ...
Report, Communication As Aid, Mobile Technology
Video

HuCo 2015 Vienna – Modul 5: What’s App: Innovation and New Technologies Improving the Effectiveness

23 Sep 2015
What’s App: Innovation and New Technologies Improving the Effectiveness of Humanitarian Action – Myth or Fact? Keynote Speech:Paul Conneally Head of Communication, International Telecommunication UnionModerator:Julia Herrnböck Journalist, NZZPan...
Video, Mobile Technology
Video

Mobile technology and mHealth: The newest frontline in health care innovation in Africa

23 Sep 2015
On March 12, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings examined mHealth applications in Africa, with a particular emphasis on mHealth innovations in Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone paying specific attention to child and maternal health. Lea...
Video, Mobile Technology
Video

Mobile Phones and Access

23 Sep 2015
This brief animation produced in partnership with USAID’s Digital Development Lab explores the issue of access to mobile devices in terms of connectivity, affordability, and more.
Video, Mobile Technology

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