World Disaster Report: Next Generation Humanitarian Technology

This year’s World Disaster Report was just released this morning. I had the honor of authoring Chapter 3 on “Strengthening Humanitarian Information: The Role of Technology.” The chapter focuses on the rise of “Digital Humanitarians” and explains how “Next Generation Humanitarian Technology” is used to manage Big (Crisis) Data. The chapter complements the groundbreaking report “Humanitarianism in the Network Age” published by UN OCHA earlier this year.

The key topics addressed in the chapter include:

• Big (Crisis) Data
• Self-Organized Disaster Response
• Crowdsourcing & Bounded Crowdsourcing
• Verifying Crowdsourced Information
• Volunteer & Technical Communities
• Digital Humanitarians
• Libya Crisis Map
• Typhoon Pablo Crisis Map
• Syria Crisis Map
• Microtasking for Disaster Response
• MicroMappers
• Machine Learning for Disaster Response
• Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response (AIDR)
• American Red Cross Digital Operations Center
• Data Protection and Security
• Policymaking for Humanitarian Technology

I’m particularly interested in getting feedback on this chapter, so feel free to pose any comments or questions you may have in the comments section below.

See also:

• What is Big (Crisis) Data? [link]
• Humanitarianism in the Network Age [link]
• Predicting Credibility of Disaster Tweets [link]
• Crowdsourced Verification for Disaster Response [link]
• MicroMappers: Microtasking for Disaster Response [link]
• AIDR: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response [link]
• Research Agenda for Next Generation Humanitarian Tech [link]