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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 more-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.



The Rise of Digital Humanitarians

Mapping Haiti Live

Supporting Search And Rescue Efforts

Preparing For The Long Haul

Launching An SMS Life Line

Sending In The Choppers

Openstreetmap To The Rescue

Post-Disaster Phase

The Human Story

Doing Battle With Big Data

Rise Of Digital Humanitarians

This Book And You

The Rise of Big (Crisis) Data

Big (Size) Data

Finding Needles In Big (Size) Data

Policy, Not Simply Technology

Big (False) Data

Unpacking Big (False) Data

Calling 991 And 999

Big (Bias) Data Unpacked

To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet

How Many Tweets Are Enough?

The Demographic Game

Big (Risk) Data

Big (Decisions) Data

Crowd-Computing Social Media

A Pain In The Side Of Putin

Here Come The Crowdsourcerers

The Escalating Crisis In Libya

Time For Smart Crowdsourcing

Typhoon Season In The Philippines

Micromappers Vs Typhoon Yolanda

Crowd-Computing Disaster Imagery

Crowdsearching Flight 370

The Search Genghis Khan Leads To Somalia

From Astrophysics To Zoomanitarians

Uavs As Humanitarian Technologies

Uavs Take Off In The Philippines

Aerial Selfies For Disaster Response

Humanitarian UAV Network

Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response

Lees' Guide To The Game Of Checkers

From Haystacks To Meadows

Tracking The Meadows Of Syria

The Red Cross Digital Operations Center

AIDR: Artificial Intelligence For Disaster Response

Big (SMS) Data

Artificial Intelligence in the Sky

Machine Learning With Pictures

Automated Imagery Analysis Of Haiti And Beyond

Coming Soon: Satellite Alchemy

Galaxy Class Machines

Artificial Intelligence At Digitalglobe

Automated Analysis Of UAV Imagery

Verifying Big Crisis Data

I'm Not Gaddafi

A Disease On The Map Of Russia

Wag The Dog Or Wag The Needle

Digital Sherlock Holmes

The Skype Detectives

Digital Scotland Yard

One, Two, Ten Red Weather Balloons

Surely, Verily, Truly

Verifying with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Rumors

BBC's Big Data Blues

Groundbreaking Insights From Chile

Artificial Intelligence Beyond Chile And Tweets

Towards Some Tweetcred

Digital Humanitarians in the Arab Spring

Crowdsourcing Convoys

The Mapping Reflex

Prelude To An Egyptian Revolution

Crowdsourced Election Monitoring Results

Assessing The Impact Of Crowdsourced Monitoring

Digital Humanitarians Beyond The Arab Spring

The Future Of Digital Activist Humanitarians

Next Generation Digital Humanitarians

A Question Of Policy

Less Computing, More Enlightenment

Data Fission To Data Fusion

Mission Not So Impossible

The Future Of Data Privacy, Protection And Ethics

Open Data And #Noshare

Democratizing Humanitarian Technology

Game On, Digital Humanitarians

The Share Economy For Disaster Response

The Kind Of World I Want To Live In