SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEW TECHNOLOGY

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Disaster Management Camp

April 2015 Al Khor, Qatar

What is in your toolkit?

Global Mobile Data

Global Mobile Data

Connecting with Affected Populations

Human Computing

Machine Computing

www.DigitalHumanitarians.com

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Connecting with Affected Populations

Report: We are locked in a

hospital, please help us.

Visitor’s comment:I called to

Self Defense Forceand they said they will go to

the place soon.

• 12, 000+ reports

• 1,000,000+ Page views for the Sinsai.info in the first month

• 500,000+ Unique visitorsMost viewed from Sendai, Japan (Disaster area)

Statistics from Japan

Text

Photo

Video

Imagery

MicroMappers

MicroMappers Using Twitter

MicroMappers Using Aerial Imagery

Results from MicroMappers

Exercise: verification

Be a Digital Humanitarian

Thank you and Questions

Heather Leson qcri.org.qa@heatherleson textontechs.com