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Using Social Media to Predict Disaster Resilience (Updated)
Social media is used to monitor and predict all kinds of social, economic, political and health-related behaviors these days. Could social media also help identify more disaster resilient communities?...
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Why Digital Social Capital Matters for Disaster Resilience and Response
Recent empirical studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of offline social capital for disaster resilience and response. I’ve blogged about some of this analysis here and here. Social capital...
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Data Science for 100 Resilient Cities
The Rockefeller Foundation recently launched a major international initiative called “100 Resilient Cities.” The motivation behind this global project stems from the recognition that cities are facing...
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Big Data, Disaster Resilience and Lord of the Rings
The Shire is a local community of Hobbits seemingly disconnected from the systemic changes taking place in Middle Earth. They are a quiet, self-sufficient community with high levels of social capital....
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Seven Principles for Big Data and Resilience Projects
Authored by Kate Crawford, Patrick Meier, Claudia Perlich, Amy Luers, Gustavo Faleiros and Jer Thorp, 2013 PopTech & Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellows. Update: See also “Big Data,...
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The Best of iRevolution in 2013
iRevolution crossed the 1 million hits mark in 2013, so big thanks to iRevolution readers for spending time here during the past 12 months. This year also saw close to 150 new blog posts published on...
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Latest Findings on Disaster Resilience: From Burma to California via the...
I’ve long been interested in disaster resilience particularly when considered through the lens of self-organization. To be sure, the capacity to self-organize is an important feature of resilient...
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Disaster Tweets Coupled With UAV Imagery Give Responders Valuable Data on...
My colleague Leysia Palen recently co-authored an important study (PDF) on tweets posted during last year’s major floods in Colorado. As Leysia et al. write, “Because the flooding was widespread, it...
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Social Media Generates Social Capital: Implications for City Resilience and...
A new empirical and peer-reviewed study provides “the first evidence that online networks are able to produce social capital. In the case of bonding social capital, online ties are more effective in...
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Social Media for Disaster Response – Done Right!
To say that Indonesia’s capital is prone to flooding would be an understatement. Well over 40% of Jakarta is at or below sea level. Add to this a rapidly growing population of over 10 million and you...
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