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Jan 1970
People GIS
A Web2.0 Approach to Confronting Landuse Violations
Common people have proven that high-tech ICT tools can be used for their common social and political benefit. From Tunisia to Wall-Street, social communication networks have played a decisive role in the creation, mobilization, and organization of public protest. But have they helped public reform? Web 2.0 PGIS tools are now... Read more »
Paper
Apr 2012
Using volunteered information to map the Queensland floods
The recent flood events and tropical cyclones in Queensland have dramatically impacted on people's lives across the State. Damage in excess of five billion dollars has been reported and the cost to the economy continues to rise. Although most of the flooding has receded, the clean-up and re-building will... Read more »
Paper
Jan 1970
Using Complex Networks for Mining Malicious Activities in a Collaborative Map
Collaboration with content sharing via digital maps is a type of application that is characteristic of the context of the social web. A malicious activity that is di cult to detect in this interactive context is the generation of a false trend on the map as the result of a... Read more »
Paper
Aug 2011
Improved Response to Disasters and Outbreaks by Tracking Population Movements with Mobile Phone
Network Data: A Post-Earthquake Geospatial Study in Haiti
Population movements following disasters can cause important increases in morbidity and mortality. Without knowledge of the locations of affected people, relief assistance is compromised. No rapid and accurate method exists to track population movements after disasters. We used position data of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards from the largest mobile... Read more »
Paper
Mar 2012
Documenting Human Rights Abuse and Crowdsourcing the Problem
This paper compares ICT-based tools developed to help human rights organisations record usable and actionable information with technology that enable anyone to collect and visualise crisis information. It looks at an initiative that actively involved citizens in the reporting of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, and contrasts... Read more »
Paper
May 2010
ICT for Development
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability refers to the long-term preservation, protection, and management of valued environmental resources in an ever-changing human context. 1 Intricately linked to the concept of enduring development, environmental sustainability also implies sustainable human, social and economic development. Issues of environmental sustainability are more urgent now than ever... Read more »Random entries
Paper
Sep 2012
Emerging Implications of Open and Linked Data for Knowledge Sharing in Development
Movements towards open data involve the publication of datasets (from metadata on publications, to research, to operational project statistics) online in standard formats and without restrictions on reuse. A number of open datasets are published as linked data, creating a web of connected datasets. Governments, companies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs)...
Report
Jan 2008
A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism
DigiActive is very proud to announce its first guide: A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism. The guide is meant for activists who are interested in bringing digital technology to help develop excitement for a budding (or mature) movement. The guide provides an overview some best practices with Facebook activism along...
Report
May 2009
Integrated Crisis Mapping
Toward a Publics-Based, Emotion-Drive Conceptualization in Crisis Mapping
Extending current situation-based conceptualizations of crisis response, this paper develops a more generic and systemic approach to understanding the role of emotions in crisis situations. Taking an integrated approach, the authors propose a public-based, emotion-driven perspective to crisis communication modeling, mapping different crisis types, and underpinning them with two continua,...
Blog Post
Jun 2013
The Revolution Will Be Live-Mapped
A Brief History of Protest Maptivism
Modern-day digital cartography is transforming the ancient art of protest—with live tactical maps built by cyberactivists using Google Maps, Umaps, or the open source world map open street map, and updated in real-time with tips from the ground sent via social media. The maps help activists avoid police,...
Video
Feb 2012
ICCM 2011: Crisis Mapping & Crowdsourcing as a Tool of Mutual Aid
Gregory Asmolov discusses using Crisis Mapping and Crowdsourcing in Russia as a Tool of Mutual Aid.
Blog Post
Dec 2011