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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

We set up the home bases, provide mission-related information, and enjoy all the people who come in to play. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information. Crisis data = people .

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The Top 5 Presentations You Won’t Want to Miss at AFP International 2015

NonProfit Hub

All of the speakers are top-notch, but picking presentations can be difficult. That’s technically three presentations. His concise marketing advice makes it easy for nonprofit professionals to glean information quickly. As a writer, this presentation excites me most. ALL General Sessions. Okay, you caught me. 4pm-5:30pm.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

A list of wrong assumptions about the use of big data for humanitarian relief is pointed out and you can have a look at some of the big data presentations at the recent Personal Democracy Forum held in New York. Videos of presentations can be found on the PDF website. Open Data Applied. Image: NetSquared.