Svend-Jonas Schelhorn at the seminar: Digital Humanitarianism and Networked Crisis Support, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway, 19th October 2013
Digital Humanitarians is a wide description of individuals and NGOs using digital tools for collaboration, mapping, analyzing or data-mining for humanitarian purposes and in humanitarian contexts. They typically engage for humanitarian crises, natural disasters, democracy projects, human rights monitoring or disaster preparedness. There are digital tools, procedures and ethical questions they all have in common.
6. What is Crisis Mapping?
• Gathering, display and analysis of data
during a crisis
• Crowdsourcing and Crowdmapping
• Contributing information from remote
or from the site of the crisis
• Crisis Mapping has the potential to
increase situational awareness
7. Challenges
Information
Overload
Information
Dearth
• Large amount of data
streams
• Make sense of
unstructured data
• Assess credibility and
quality of information
• Lack of spatial and
temporal coverage
• Low integration into
decision-making
processes and tools
• Mismatch between needs
and offers
16. Tools for Crisis Mapping
Challenges and Gaps
• Interoperability
• Security
• Formats
• Handling
• Design
17. The Role of Digital Volunteers in
Humanitarian Work
18. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Processes and Approaches of Collaboration -
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
„Professional“ Humanitarians
Affected Local Communities
19. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- The Traditional Way Request
Response
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
„Professional“ Humanitarians
Increased Situational Awareness
=> Added Value in Response
Affected Local Communities
20. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Recent Approach I –
(Uttharakand-Floods, India-Cyclone „Phailin“)
Offer Help
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
„Professional“ Humanitarians
Increased Situational Awareness
=> Added Value
Affected Local Communities
21. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Recent Approach II – I N C L U S I O N
(Sudan Floods`?)
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
„Professional“ Humanitarians
Joint Engagement
Affected Local Communities
22. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Recent Approach II –
(Sudan Floods`?)
Approach
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
„Professional“ Humanitarians
Joint
Engagement
Affected Local Communities
23. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Recent Approach II – I N C L U S I O N
(Sudan Floods`?)
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
„Professional“ Humanitarians
Joint Engagement
Affected Local Communities
24.
25. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Challenges -
26. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Challenges in Collaboration and Cooperation -
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
„Professional“ Humanitarians
Different Background
=
Different Realities
=
Different Perceptions
=
Different Language
27. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Challenges -
Digital Humanitarian Volunteers
HEY!
And what is the
IMPACT?????
„Professional“ Humanitarians
28. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Approaches to solve the issues -
30. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Training of Future Humanitarians -
University Course on Crisis Mapping and
Volunteered Geographic Information
• Assignments for Students to
learn about Conceptual Background
• Life Webinars with Practicioners
• Crisis Mapping Training to learn
the Tools
31. The Role of Digital Volunteers in Humanitarian Work
- Training of Future Humanitarians -
University Course on Crisis Mapping and
Volunteered Geographic Information
• Assignments for Students to
learn about Conceptual Background
• Life Webinars with Practicioners
• Crisis Mapping Training to learn
the Tools
INTERESTED? LETS TEAM UP!
32. Wrapping Up…
• Digital Humanitarianism is a dynamic field
• Crisis Mapping holds huge potential for Humanitarian Work
• Crisis Mapping fills an important niche in Humanitarian Work
• Barriers between Communities and Stakeholders still exist
• Crisis Mapping happens in a Socio-technological environment
33. Crisis Mapping
Problems to be addressed
• How to engage citizens to contribute with
valuable information Disaster Risk
Management?
• How to integrate and fuse data from
heterogeneous sources into an integrated
knowledge base?
• How to make the data useful to support
decision-making in the field?
34. We didnt talk about…
• Liability
• Sensitive Information
• The Verification Issue
• Volunteer Protection
• More Tools…
• More Initiatives…
35. We didnt talk about…
• Liability
• Sensitive Information
• The Verification Issue
• Volunteer Protection
• More Tools…
• More Initiatives…
