First review of H2020 COMRADES project https://comrades-project.eu/

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COMRADES
Harith Alani
Open University
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Agenda
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Consortium
Knowledge Media institute, The
Open University, UK
www.open.ac.uk
iHub Ltd, Kenya
www.ihub.co.ke
Delft University of Technology
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/
University of Sheffield, UK
www.sheffield.ac.uk
Government to You, Belgium
www.gov2u.org
Universitetet i Agder, Norway
www.uia.no/en

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Collective Awareness Platforms for
Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS)
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Project still relevant?
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Ecuador, 7.8 earthquake , April 2017, ~700 people dies
Droughts, affecting 60 million in 34 countries
Maxwell, California, Feb 2017
Portugal, forest fires, 64 confirmed deaths, Jun 2017
Manchester, May 2017, 22 dead
Haiti, Hurricane Matthew, Oct 2016,
~500 people died, farming devastated

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Social Media during disasters
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Uses of social media during disasters
• Broadcasting info about the disaster
• Requesting info from local people and eye witnesses
• Requesting and offering help and support
• Disaster mapping
• Mobilising the crowd to support initiatives
The clean-up in Clapham
(Pic: Twitter via
@Lawcol888)
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• In the US, 1.1 million tweets were sent in the first day of Hurricane
Sandy, and over 20 million in total
• Over 800K photos with #Sandy hashtag on Instagram
• 2.3M tweets were sent with the words “Haiti” or “Red Cross” in
2010
• More than 23 million tweets were posted about the haze in
Singapore
• In Nepal, more than half a million posts were shared about the
devastating earthquake in 2015
Some (Big) Numbers
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Great efforts … inadequate tools

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• So what are the challenges in using social media for disaster
management?
Volume
Velocity
Variety
Veracity
Value
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Project Objectives
COMRADES aims to empower communities with intelligent
socio-technical solutions to help them reconnect, respond to, and
recover from crisis situations.
• Main objectives:
O1: Extract the socio-technical requirements for collective resilience
platforms
O2: Automatically identify, process, assess, and monitor emergency
events in distributed communities and social media sources
O3: Measure the informativeness and validity of crisis information
O4: Develop the intelligent COMRADES platform for community
resilience
O5: Deploy COMRADES to support real and distributed communities
during live crises events
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Work Diagram
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Community Engagement
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Deployers RespondersReporters Policy Makers

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