Webinar: Digital Humanitarians: What Are They and What Are They Up To?

Webinar: Digital Humanitarians: What Are They and What Are They Up To?

Cyberweek 2015: Digital Humanitarians: What Are They and What Are T... from Bryan J Hanson on Vimeo.

Webinar Description:

This session will explore the emergence of projects that mobilize online volunteers from across the globe who freely share their time and energy responding to humanitarian disasters. Drawing mainly on Patrick Meier's new book Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response, we'll look at various crowdsourcing solutions that help international relief agencies sort through large bodies of SMS messages, twitter and facebook posts and satellite and drone images to improve post-disaster and post-conflict relief efforts.

Presenter Bios:

Bill Warters, Ph.D., is the Academic Director of Wayne State University's Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution program (see http://madr.comm.wayne.edu ) where he teaches courses on social conflict, mediation, ethnographic research methods, and communication technology and conflict. Bill is the author of Mediation in the Campus Community: Designing and Managing Effective Programs (Jossey-Bass, 1999). He is webmaster of CREducation.org, a site supporting conflict resolution in educational settings, as well as numerous other online resources related to conflict resolution. More information and links to Bill's digital projects can be found at http://campus-adr.net

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Hanson on October 27, 2015 at 4:04pm

You will access this live webinar by following this link:

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Hanson on November 5, 2015 at 2:56pm

Resource links shared by Bill during the session:

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Permalink Reply by Bill Warters on November 5, 2015 at 5:40pm

Thanks to everyone who attended my session today. As I noted at the end of the session, I believe we could do with more discussion around paths toward greater integration of conflict resolution and ODR people and concepts and that of the crisis and humanitarian development community. Surely there are crowd-sourcing approaches that ODR folks would get behind that will further the quest for constructive conflict management. I'm interested in your thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Hanson on November 6, 2015 at 10:14am

Hello all, the archive for this session is now available for viewing by selecting play on the video box at the top of this page. Please fee free to continue the conversation in this discussion forum by adding any comments or questions. Enjoy! Bryan

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Permalink Reply by Bill Warters on November 6, 2015 at 11:55am

The videos that were played during the presentation don't appear in the recorded archive, but you can still watch them via these barebones webpages:

Why Map: Video about MapGive: http://madr.comm.wayne.edu/01_mapgive.html

Short Video demonstrating live tagging of drone video: http://madr.comm.wayne.edu/02_airvideotagging.html

Video on use of drones and 3D map creation after the Nepal Earthquake: http://madr.comm.wayne.edu/03_dronesinnepal.html

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Hanson on November 6, 2015 at 11:59am

Wonderful, thanks for sharing the vids Bill. They exemplify these tools in action very well. It is amazing where we are going in terms of this type of mapping. Considering the context of the webinar we saw this morning on the climate change debate, it is likely going to be necessary to have these programs in full gear.