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19. October 2010

Video of UN CITO’s speech to crisismapping community

CrisisMappers has posted in two parts the speech delivered by Dr. Choi Soon-hong, the UN Secretariat’s Chief Information Technology Office (CITO) at the CrisisMapping conference held in Boston earlier this ...

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8. October 2010

Pakistan Crisis Information Management Wiki on Google

The crisis information management wiki set up by the Foundation to respond to the Pakistan flooding, is now indexed on Google’s Crisis Response page for Pakistan.

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8. October 2010

Four themes emerging from ICCM 2010

Kim Stephens has an interesting blog post on four themes that emerged out of the Twitter updates on the International Conference of Crisis Mappers held from 1 – 3 October ...

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3. October 2010

UN CITO Dr. Choi Soon-hong at Crisismappers meeting 2010

UN CITO Dr. Choi Soon-hong at Crisismappers meeting 2010 delivered a keynote address at the Crisismappers conference in Boston, held on 1st October. Dr. Choi said he “wished more lives ...

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26. September 2010

Learning from Haiti & 2010 Crises: A roundtable discussion

ICCM 2010: Learning from Haiti This roundtable will review the lessons learned and best practices from the disaster response to Haiti. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently noted in ...

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14. July 2010

Finding space for crowd-sourcing in humanitarian response

“Crowd-sourcing” is a new buzzword in the world of humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.

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