Last weekend (Oct. 11 through 14) was filled with enormous amounts of maps and data at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM). Every year the conference gathers enthusiasts, professionals, geeks and wonks from everywhere to discuss humanitarian (information) technology to its best. New ideas were proposed, demos shown, a […]
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This post was co-written with the help of Loki. Thanks to the rest of the class for helping us keep good notes! We start off this week’s class with a quick recap of our blog posts from the previous class, discussing our various models of social change. Joanna describes her […]
In Sasha’s class last week we tried to calculate our value to the online social networks we participate in. In the equation my partner and I created, we took into account three variables: Biodata, Influence, and System Value. Our equation is: (Biodata + System Value) to the power of Influence […]
Luis Capelo (@luiscape) of Digital Humanitarian Network loves volunteers. DH exists to stimulate more interaction between humanitarian volunteers and large humanitarian institutions. There’s information overload in humanitarian responses. How do we collect and make sense of all this information? Luis credits humanitarian orgs with doing the hard work of adapting, […]
My mother’s father was a machinist. He had a stocked workshop, and I can’t picture him without a blue jumpsuit on, speckled with the light-brown — a sugary scent — of machine oil. Even as cigars browned his fingers and arthritis froze them, he worked with his hands. His father, […]