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Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Deep Insights
FHI 360; Rockefeller Foundation (2017), 103 pp.
"This inventory was developed by FHI 360, with grant funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, to support resilience practitioners and the broader development community to identify digital technologies that have the potential to enhance resilience outcomes, particularly in Asia. It was primarily popu
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Framework for Data Sharing in Practice. Summary Report, Part II
Copenhagen: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); Protection Information Management (PIM) (2017), 4 pp.
"A Framework for Data Sharing in Practice, Part II, is a collective outcome document from two meetings held in 2017, one in New York in May and a follow-up in Copenhagen in December. The meetings were held with support from OCHA’s Centre for Humanitarian Data. The objective of these meetings was t
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Social Media Use During Disasters: How Information Form and Source Influence Intended Behavioral Responses
Communication Research, volume 43, issue 5 (2016), pp. 626-646
"This study provides insights that can inform disaster communication management, policymaking, and theory building through a nationally representative field experiment (N = 2,015 U.S. adults) grounded in media richness theory, information and communication technologies (ICTs) succession theory, and
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Big Crisis Data
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016), 224 pp.
"Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages that exceeds human capacity to process. Emergency managers
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Guidance for Incorporating Big Data Into Humanitarian Operations
Digital Humanitarian Network (DH); Decision Makers Needs (DM-N) (2015), 33 pp.
"This document has been created to provide a broad overview of big data usage in humanitarian organisations and general guidance on how organisations can incorporate it into operations. It describes big data and its role within the humanitarian sector, offers a categorisation of the large variety of
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"With 4 million refugees in neighbouring countries and six and a half million Internally Displaced Persons within Syria, communication tools have become critical for the Syrian population to maintain contact with their family and friends both inside and outside the country. The costs associated with
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Digital Inequality and Second-Order Disasters: Social Media in the Typhoon Haiyan Recovery
Social Media + Society, volume 1, issue 2 (2015), 11 pp.
"This article investigates the intersection of digital and social inequality in the context of disaster recovery. In doing so, the article responds to the optimism present in recent claims about “humanitarian technology” which refers to the empowering uses and applications of interactive technol
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Finding a Voice Through Humanitarian Technologies? Communication Technologies and Participation in Disaster Recovery
International Journal of Communication, volume 9 (2015), pp. 3020-3038
"Voice—understood as the ability to give an account of oneself and participate in social processes—is increasingly recognized as significant for humanitarian action and disaster recovery. Giving disaster-affected people the opportunity to make their voices heard has the potential to democratize
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Disaster Response: Nepal Earthquake Response and Recovery. Overview
London: GSMA (2015), 24 pp.
Humanitarianism, Communications and Change
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 279 pp.
State of the Use of Mobile Technologies for Disaster Preparedness in South East Asia
Singapore: Nanyang Technological University (2015), 66 pp.
"This project is conducted in response to Global Disaster Preparedness Center’s (GDPC) initiative of developing flood hazard preparedness mobile apps in the four target countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam)." (Executive summary)
Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response
Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (2015), xxv, 233 pp.
"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 more is often referred to as Big Data. Making sense of this data deluge during disasters is proving an
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The Use of ICTs and Mobilisation in the Age of Parallel Media – an Emerging Fifth Estate? A Case Study of Nafeer's Flood Campaign in the Sudan
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 75-91
"On 1 August 2013, heavy rains in the Sudan triggered flash floods that affected more than 530 000 citizens. The government failed to aid those affected and created a media blackout. More than 12 000 Sudanese volunteers created a horizontal network of citizens participating in a community-led initia
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Locating Disaster Communication in Changing Communicative Ecologies Across the Pacific
Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (AJTDE), volume 2, issue 4 (2014), 16 pp.
"According to ITU statistics, around 60 percent of Pacific Islanders had access to a mobile in 2012, compared to just 10 percent in 2006. In many Pacific countries mobile phones are, therefore, emerging as a key element of the local communication systems, and are being be built into disaster managem
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Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp.
"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone
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