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Verily: Crowdsourced Verification for Disaster Response
Social media is increasingly used for communicating during crises. This rise in Big (Crisis) Data means that finding the proverbial needle in the growing haystack of information is becoming a major...
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Crowdsourcing Critical Thinking to Verify Social Media During Crises
My colleagues and I at QCRI and the Masdar Institute will be launching Verily in the near future. The project has already received quite a bit of media coverage—particularly after the Boston marathon...
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TEDx: Using Crowdsourcing to Verify Social Media for Disaster Response
My TEDx talk on Digital Humanitarians presented at TEDxTraverseCity. I’ve automatically forwarded the above video to the section on Big (false) Data and the use of time-critical crowdsourcing to...
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Live: Crowdsourced Verification Platform for Disaster Response
Earlier this year, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 suddenly vanished, which set in motion the largest search and rescue operation in history—both on the ground and online. Colleagues at DigitalGlobe...
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How to Become a Digital Sherlock Holmes and Support Relief Efforts
Humanitarian organizations need both timely and accurate information when responding to disasters. Where is the most damage located? Who needs the most help? What other threats exist? Respectable news...
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