Digital Humanitarians
How Big Data is Changing
the Face of Humanitarian Action
Taylor and Francis Press
Endorsed by experts at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford,
UN, Red Cross, World Bank, USAID and many others.
The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. Mobile phones, orbiting satellites and humanitarian UAVs each generate vast volumes of data during major disasters. This flash flood of information is often referred to as Big Data, or Big Crisis Data. Making sense of this overflow of information is proving to be an impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations, which is precisely why they’re turning to Digital Humanitarians.
Who exactly are these Digital Humanitarians? They’re you, me, all of us. Digital Humanitarians are volunteers and professionals from the world over and from all walks of life. What do they share in common? The desire to make a difference, and they do by rapidly mobilizing online in collaboration with international humanitarian organizations. In virtually real-time, they make sense of vast volumes of social media, SMS and imagery captured from satellites and UAVs to support relief efforts worldwide. How? They craft and leverage ingenious crowdsourcing solutions with trail-blazing insights from artificial intelligence.
This book charts the sudden and spectacular rise of Digital Humanitarians by sharing their remarkable, real-life stories, highlighting how their humanity coupled with innovative solutions to Big Data is changing humanitarian response forever. Digital Humanitarians will make you think differently about what it means to be humanitarian and will invite you to join the journey online.
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Awesome, congrats Patrick!
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Hey Patrick – it was such a pleasure to meet you at the Centre for Emergency & Disaster Management QUT Brisbane forum a couple of weeks ago. I’ve really had such a motivational epiphany of sorts to get more involved in this topic. And thanks again for your permission to promote your links on my website too, never had that direct from the author before, lol. Love your work and look forward to keeping abreast of your other contributions, blogs etc. WOW!