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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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

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JUNE 20, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Big Data for Disaster Response: A List of Wrong Assumptions. He says that Big Data on its own will not improve decision-making for disaster response since many decisions made by humanitarian professionals during disasters are still not based on empirical data. Image: NetSquared.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

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

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