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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has published today their annual World Disasters Report.
This year, the focus is on how technology innovations are having an impact in humanitarian action, as well as the risks and opportunities that may come from their use.
Watch this video to learn more about their findings and learn more about the report here.
Twitter has recently launched a new product called Twitter Alerts, which allows certain accounts to designate critical tweets as "alerts" to be seen by all account followers at the top of their timeline. Additionally, users who have the official Twitter apps on their mobile devices can receive push notifications and text messages directly on their phones.
As part of its launch, Twitter has invited different organizations to join this project, including UN OCHA and FEMA.
What do you think of this project?
These before and after images show the destruction of homes and buildings in the Santa Catalina neighbourhood in Zamboanga City, Philippines. Recent violence in the region has left an estimated 131,000 people displaced and more than 10,000 homes have been destroyed. Learn more about how the United Nations is using satellite images to map the humanitarian impact of conflict in the area: http://ow.ly/pm34P
How are aid workers leveraging mobile applications for humanitarian response? Devex has compiled a list of seven apps that can help those interested or working in the humanitarian field. Check out the full gallery here.
In the picture: Humanitarian Kiosk, an iOS app deviced by OCHA to provide humanitarian workers and decision makers with the latest humanitarian information from different countries and regions. Download it here.
Social media mobile apps are usually considered an exclusive characteristic of smart phones, which remain inaccessible for most users in the developing world.
'Facebook for every Phone' is a new app developed by the company to run on feature phones, which are more affordable and widely used in countries like Indonesia and the Philippines, where people are also known to have used social media during disasters.
Last week, Facebook announced that the app had surpassed 100 million users around the world.
What do you think are the implications of this development for disaster response? Will people increasingly use social media and mobile to communicate during an emergency?
Photo: Facebook
Have you heard of an ICT - information and communication technology -emergency?
As highlighted in OCHA's HINA report, communications and information tools and resources play an increasingly important role in humanitarian response.
Poor communications can make a response even more challenging.This is the situation in the Central African Republic, where communications infrastructure is weak and Internet coverage limited.
To help improve the situation, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster is preparing a mission to improve connectivity for aid workers.
This is how they are doing it.
Photo: WFP/Komi Amedjonekou
Can smartphones warn us ahead of an earthquake?
A team from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has developed a smartphone app which aims to work as an early warning system.
How does it work? What are some of the challenges for implementation? Find out more about CrowdShake in this BBC story.
Photo: Urban Search and Rescue teams search earthquake damaged buildings in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia. Kirsten Mildren/OCHA
Why communication matters in humanitarian crises.
Find out more in the HINA report.
Photo: Reuters/Regis Duvignau
Why communication matters in humanitarian crises.
Find out more in the HINA report.
Photo: Reuters/Tim Wimborne
Why communication matters in humanitarian crises.
Find out more in the HINA report.
Photo: Reuters/Mike Hutchings
TwitterChat: Big Data, Big Opportunities for Disaster Response?
Aid workers and crisis-affected communities are increasingly exploiting new technologies to gather near real-time information to prepare for, prevent and handle disasters. OCHA's new Humanitarianism in the Network Age (#HINA) report puts focus on these new developments.
With over 6 billion mobile phone subscribers globally, and one-third of the world’s estimated seven billion people accessing to the Internet, big data is increasingly gaining momentum as an information source for disaster response and early warning.
On Thursday 27 June at 9:00am EST / 3:00pm CET, join UN Global Pulse, Patrick Meier of the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Nigel Snoad, Product Manager, Crisis Response and Civic Innovation at Google, and OCHA’s Andrej Verity for a Twitter discussion on the opportunities, and challenges, of using #BigData for humanitarian response.
Get involved! Tell us what YOU think and share YOUR questions via hashtags #BigData #HINA
What’s it all about?
New information and communications technologies (ICTs) made it possible to map the impact of Typhoon Bopha (#Pabloph) in the Philippines in 2012 by categorizing over 20,000 social media messages in a database within 24 hours of the typhoon hitting; during the Great East Japan earthquake in 2011, social media use skyrocked - immediately after the quake, 11,000 tweets per minute were sent (the normal average for Japan is 3,000); and research by the UN Global Pulse Lab in Indonesia has shown how monitoring social media conversations can serve as early warning of crises, including jumps in the cost of food or fuel prices.
Image: QCRI/UNDP
Why communication matters in humanitarian crises.
Find out more in the HINA report.
Photo: Reuters/Barry Malone
Why communication matters in humanitarian crises.
Find out more in the HINA report.
Photo: Reuters/Andrew Heavens
As this video shows, social media has become a critical part of disaster relief.
Watch to see how Twitter helped families affected by tornadoes in Oklahoma in May, get in touch with and receive help from the American Red Cross.
How can we make sense of all the information available on social media following a disaster? How can we turn it into something actionable?
Crowdcrafting is an online platform that allows users to create and run projects that utilize online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition, such as image classification, transcription, geo-coding and more.
Following Typhoon Bopha (or Pablo) in the Philippines, the Digital Humanitarian Network used this tool to tag tweets and gather information about the situation on the ground. Find out more about the project here.
During a humanitarian crisis, monitoring the distribution of food and other essentials like tents and blankets can be a complex and challenging task.
The UN's Refugee Agency has partnered with the UPS Foundation for a pilot project in which the company's existing Trackpad technology will be used to make this process more efficient and accurate.
Using laminated cards with barcodes, UNHCR will be able to identify and store information such as the type of supplies a refugee has received, where he/she lives, and how many members are in his/her family.
Follow more on this and other UNHCR innovation projects here.
See how UPS has previously used Trackpad for humanitarian support with the Salvation Army.
Big data has increasingly gained momentum as one of the emerging tools for humanitarian response.
With over six billion mobile phone subscribers globally, and one-third of the world’s estimated seven billion people with access to the Internet, the potential of this field has caught the attention of humanitarian actors.
How can big data be used for humanitarian response, and how can some of its challenges be overcome? This story from IRIN presents some of the answers, and examines some of the remaining questions.
Photo: UWW ResNET