Mapping Conflicts & Crisis
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Global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability | Transparency & Accountability Initiative
As internet and mobile phone use increases, technology is transforming the field of transparency and accountability making it an increasingly dynamic space across the globe. Technology is helping to improve citizen participation in decision-making and producing new ways of identifying public service challenges through processes such as ‘data mashing’. This paper documents current trends in the way technology is being used to promote transparency in different parts of the world. It reviews over 100 projects from across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, examining how new technologies are re-energising traditional methods. In particular, it focuses on how these new technologies are helping to engage different actors from citizens, media, authorities and the private sector.
Crowdmap
Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. As the platform has evolved, so have its uses. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi without having to install it on your own web server.
Ushahidi
Treehugger Snowmageddon is a website set up to help people dig out of the blizzard in New York. It was originally set up last year in Washington; it is an attempt to crowdsource information, where people can use their...
Course Materials - Crisis Mapping, Politics & New Media
Dear community, I am developing a new course: Political Science 397: Crisis Mapping, Politics & New Media. As the course progresses I will post materials here for your review. Please feel free to use any portion of the materials posted here for your own course development. Grassroots mapping using kites and balloons on JCU’s campusHunchLab imports your incident data, generates intelligence, and delivers it to your officers and analysts in an easy-to-use browser interface.
HunchLab - Geographic crime analysis, early warning, and risk forecasting
#Ambon: Conflict and Containment Through Virtual Networks | TechChange | The Institute for Technology and Social Change
Image Courtesy of the Author The story that follows is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), whose working conclusion is that the riots that occurred on September 11 th and 12 th , 2011, taking seven lives and causing 65 injuries on the small island of Ambon, Indonesia, may have been intentionally provoked by certain parties through text message rumors . Despite a slow and ineffective response by police on the ground, the violence did not engulf the entire island.