How to make sense of a billion Tweets?
Powerful communication tools in the pockets of billions of people have changed our ability to engage with the world. How does it strengthen human rights and democracy, and contribute to poverty alleviation?
SBTF 3pm Live Air Video Clicker V48
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We organize ourselves, and participate in worldwide dialogue, through such tools. How are these tools used, particularly in developing countries, for humanitarian relief, governance and accountability, and civil society mobilization?
These new digital tools themselves represent a technological revolution, and are at the same time revolutionizing politics in many developing countries. They promise great potential for mobilizing people, ideas, and resources in new and profound ways that could contribute to improving the welfare of millions of people. Yet their very novelty also means that far too little knowledge exists about the conditions under which particular types of tools have particular types of effects, and what effects they may have in the future.
These are important questions to answer, given that there are high expectations for – and many unproved claims about – the power of digital technologies to, among other things, increase democracy as well as citizen participation and voice, alleviate poverty, and improve human rights.
Inspiring introductions
UAVs and real-time video analyse (via Skype)
Dr. Patrick Meier
Thought leader and Director of Social Computing at QCRI
Crowdsourced mapping of the Nepal Earthquake and Ebola outbreak
Pierre Beland
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOTOSM)
How to Make Sense of a Billion Tweets
Dr Sarah Vieweg
Scientist at Social Computing group at QCRI
Online volunteers, formal responders and boots on the ground - challenging interfaces
Per Aarvik
Vice President, SBTF
Disability Watch: Promoting and monitoring Human Rights and inclusion for persons with disabilities (using mobile technology)
Morten Eriksen
Atlas-Alliance, Norway
How Smartphones and Social Media Empower Refugees and EU Citizens and Bring Change to European Refugee Policies
Dr Martina Comes
Researcher at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, UiA, CIEM
Panel participants
Oludotun Babayemi
Connected Development, Abuja
Gregory Asmolov
London School of Economics
Andrew Mao
Microsoft Research New York
Pierre Beland
HOTOSM
Dr. Sarah Vieweg
QCRI
Moderator
Kendra Dupuy
U4 Advisor, CMI
Live Stream will appear here on Tuesday Nov 3 at UTC 17:00
Twitter hashtag for questions and comments: #DigiRevCMI
This seminar is free and open to all!
The event is organised by UiB and CMI with the support from Atlas-Alliance Norway and Jæger Automobil, Bergen and is part of the CMI/UiB workshop "Digital Revolutions: New Information Technology Tools in 21st Century Politics".
