Post on 07-May-2015
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Future of CiM?Sanjana Hattotuwa
TED Fellow
Focus on process, not just spikesNarrow band over time adds richness, full spectrum adds context
Local language(s)CultureLocal actorsDiasporaHagiography and mythIdentity and powerPartisan politicsRegional power blocsInequityDemographics (Youth)Civic mediaVerbal storytelling
new mappingcrowdsourcing and crisis mapping
crowd sourcing mapping | new mapshttp://publiclaboratory.org/sites/default/files/4445981062_73945db207_b_2.jpg
crowd sourcing mapping | new mapshttp://grassrootsmapping.org/gulf-oil-spill
LRA crisis trackerhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org
LRA crisis trackerhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org
LRA crisis tracker | Verificationhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org/sites/default/files/Map-Methodology-and-Database%20Codebook%20v1.0.pdf
Photosynth: many eyes, context provisioninghttp://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=f3a648b8-7a4c-4bc4-8396-5746d86225b6
early warningvia crowdsourcing and web agents
Detecting Emergent Conflicts through Web Mining and Visualizationhttp://irevolution.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/detecting-emergent-conflicts-through-web-mining-and-visualization.pdf
Ushahidi Swiftriver
• Ushahidi SwiftRiver | http://ushahidi.com/products/swiftriver-platform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0Gs7vtrgk
SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.
In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.
crowd sourcing verification
distributed intelligence
JPquake Site: crowdsourcing media reportshttp://www.jpquake.info
Massive data analyticshttp://tomnod.com
Christchurch: damage assessmenthttp://tomnod.com/geocan/
Massive data analyticshttp://irevolution.net/2011/09/19/crowdsourcing-update-on-syria
open data
open data
open data in government
open data in government
open data by NGOs
infoviz
interactive timelineshttp://www.timetoast.com
bundling social media, adding value through curationhttp://www.bundlr.com & http://www.storify.com
word cloudshttp://groundviews.org/2011/05/11/from-draft-to-official-text-wikileaks-reveals-the-us-response-to-the-end-of-war-in-sri-lanka/
interactive graphicshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/03/us/20110503-osama-response.html
infographicshttp://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/
CiM drivers from other domains
• Music industry (pattern based search, e.g. Pandora’s technical + human indexing), social networking (group collaboration,e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook), social networking search (e.g. Grepling), mobile phone apps (e.g. Guardly), marketing engines (e.g. adaptive persuasion profiling), digital forensics (e.g. hyperspectral imaging with UAVs), ground truth profiling (e.g. UNOSAT images on Sri Lanka) many sourcing for situational awareness (e.g. Microsoft Photosynth), Open Data Initiatives (e.g. British, US govt’s, World Bank), visualisation (e.g. Infomous)
new challenges situation awareness & information literacy
filter bubbles
• "A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To Your Interests Right Now Than People Dying In Africa", Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook
• Human gatekeepers being replaced by algorithmic gatekeepers.
• A new, pervasive, almost invisible, systemic filtering?
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
filtering to counter filter bubbles
• Ushahidi SwiftRiver | http://ushahidi.com/products/swiftriver-platform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0Gs7vtrgk
SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.
In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.
investing: from lugano to...?
organisational hr & financial costs
Skilled / Paid
Easy / Free
Skilled / Free
Google Maps
Google Moderator
Curated Twitter
Google Reader
Google News
Wordpress
IBM ManyEyes Ustream
Flickr
Open Data statistics
Timetoast
Wordle
Flash based infoviz
Easy / Paid
Wordpress VIP
Facebook Ads Flickr Pro
Vimeo
YouTube
Bundlr Storify