Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response By Patrick Meier

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The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information This flash flood of information social media satellite imagery and is often referred to as Big Data Making sense of this data deluge during disasters is proving an impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations which explains why they re turning to Digital Humanitarians Who exactly are these Digital Humanitarians and how do they make sense of Big Data Digital Humanitarians How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response answers this question Digital Humanitarians are you me all of us volunteers students and professionals from the world over and from all walks of life What do they share in common They 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 Digital Humanitarians How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian ResponseAn excellent general audience book on how digital technologies are enabling ordinary volunteers to save lives in disasters around the world The author is one of the founders of the movement having created a crisis management platform in his dorm room in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake Meier gives an overview of the problems of coordination and information processing facing crisis response efforts then details the evolution of computing and communications tools across a series of case studies of environmental and political crises. Kindle Digital humanitarians meaning The author is steadier and less gee whiz than for example Jane McGonigal in Reality Is Broken He has a practitioner s sense of the limitations of the possible and a designer s understanding of the systems necessary to contribute in a useful and timely way in a crisis For all that he manages to be at least as inspiring the potential for ordinary people to help in a meaningful way is greater than ever thanks in no small part to the author s own efforts. Digital Humanitarians pdf converter Digital Humanitarians is an inspirational informative readable short book Its only shortcoming which is somewhat shocking is that it doesn t provide a list of generally available resources and means to contribute readers will have to pick them out of the text and do some googling A short How You Can Help section would have been a great improvement 1482248395 This is THE book for Digital Humanitarian It contains very interesting stories about different situations obstacles technologies and how teams found the solutions In addition it raises a lot of important challenges and issues facing all humanitarians around the world 1482248395 Great book from one of the top digital humanitarians Patrick Meier Who wants to know about crisis mapping artificial intelligence and machine learning and its usage for the humanitarian crises this is the best book to start with 1482248395 An inspiring book that makes you believe in mankind again It might be a book about digital humanitarians and the techniques used to make sense of big data in disasters but it is also a book about people who step up for others often far from home and how all of us can 1482248395 I met the author and was intrigued by his story I enjoyed this book very much 1482248395