Africa, Disaster, Literacy and Open Source

Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Whether it’s direct or indirect content, why do citizens turn to social media in moments of need or disaster?

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media

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

Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

This week check out the launch of the new Global Open Data Initiative, the pursuit for the release and use of open data in Latin America and thoughts on open data and democracy in Africa. Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society.

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Disaster Data Global Open

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

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

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