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

摘要: The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response the lack information. Making sense this information--Big Data--is proving an impossible challenge for traditional organizations, which is precisely why they're turning Digital Humanitarians. This new humanitarians mobilize online make vast volumes data--social media and text messages; satellite aerial imagery--in direct support relief efforts worldwide. How? They craft ingenious crowdsourcing solutions with trail-blazing insights from artificial intelligence. book charts spectacular rise Humanitarians, highlighting how their humanity coupled innovative Big Data changing forever. Praise book: ...examines uses technology quantities digital data are transforming way societies prepare for, respond to, cope with, ultimately understand disasters. --Dr. Enzo Bollettino, Executive Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, University ...explains strengths potential weaknesses using big crowdsourced analytics in crisis situations. It at once a deeply personal intellectually satisfying book.--Professor Steven Livingston, Professor Media & Public International Affairs, Elliott School George Washington