To date, smart city initiatives have been largely top down efforts accompanied by hefty infrastructure investments. They’ve also targeted similar areas for improvements, like parking, street lighting, transportation, water and energy use, and waste management. However, in “The next-generation…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: disaster response
How the New ‘Smart’ City Tackles Disaster Management with Open Data and Civic Tech
Posted in Benefits of open data, Big Data, Data, Greater efficiency, How, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Resilience, Smart communities Tagged with: big data, civic tech, data, disaster, disaster response, open data, OpenDataSoft
In post-earthquake Nepal, open data accountability
This map shows landslide sites. ICIMOD a team led by NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) maps and monitors potential geohazards using satellite data. One of the first things I did after the earthquake on 25th April was…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Resilience, Transparency, Visualising data Tagged with: Deepa Rai, Disaster Data Portal, disaster response, earthquake, geohazards, landslide, Nepal, open data, satellite, World Bank
The 4 new essential data management tools for humanitarian work
Information on affected population were kept in logbooks at the local level. I started working on first response to national disasters in 2009, when the Typhoon Ondoy struck the Philippines. Then, organizations and government officials had to collect data by making phone…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Public safety, Resilience, Smart communities Tagged with: ActivityInfo, Dashboard, Data Management, disaster response, Humanitarian, Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), Humanitarian ID, mapping, needs assessment, offline, Open Data Kit (ODK), Philippines, project monitoring, School of Data, Sheena Carmel Opulencia-Calub, tools, Typhoon Ondoy
A Six Month Update on How We’ve Been Using Data, and How it Benefits All Americans
My team is helping federal departments and agencies as they work to ensure: (1) they are using data to benefit all Americans; and (2) they using the data available responsibly. Ensuring Data Science Benefits All Americans Good data science and…
Posted in Posts from feeds Tagged with: Climate Change, crime, crowdmapping, data, Data Science, data visualisation, disaster response, grassroots, health, Medium.com, Nepal, personalisation, Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), public health, The White House
How open data and social media helped Nepal rebuild after earthquake
The earthquake in Nepal in May exposed the national government’s unpreparedness to deal with the aftermath of a huge natural disaster, but it also gave rise to a movement of young Nepalese people with the skills required to help their…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Data, Greater efficiency, How, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Resilience, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: ABC.net.au, Communication, Community, disaster response, earthquake, Government, mapping, Nepal, open data, open source, Quakemap.org, rebuild, resilience, Siobhan Heanue, social media
Google at NTB and KLL: Collaborating for an Open Data Paradigm in Nepal
Google at Nepal Tourism Board and Kathmandu Living Labs: Collaborating for an Open Data Paradigm in Nepal Just Google it! Now a pop culture reference point heard throughout the world, this phrase also defines the hyper-connected, continuously-innovating world of…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: disaster response, Google, Kathmandu, Living Labs, Nepal, open data, Veneeta Singha
Engaging more data actors in the Philippines for disaster response
Whenever there is an emergency in the Philippines, various organisations and institutions organise themselves into emergency clusters and working groups to increase the effectiveness of the response. One of the crucial elements of disaster response is information management. In various emergency contexts,…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety Tagged with: disaster, disaster response, emergency, evacuation, Kobo Toolbox, Monitoring, People, Philippines, population, School of Data, Typhoon
“Why Should We Wait?”: Mapping for the Next Disaster
Today, AidData launches the first of a six-part podcast series to take you past the maps and dashboards on our website to the human stories at the heart of our research. Today’s episode is on the data response to the…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: Aid, AidData, disaster response, earthquake, geospatial, Kathmandu, Nepal, Open Nepal, OpenStreetMap, Philippines, podcast, research