Future of CiM?Sanjana Hattotuwa

TED Fellow

Focus on process, not just spikesNarrow band over time adds richness, full spectrum adds context

Local language(s)CultureLocal actorsDiasporaHagiography and mythIdentity and powerPartisan politicsRegional power blocsInequityDemographics (Youth)Civic mediaVerbal storytelling

new mappingcrowdsourcing and crisis mapping

crowd sourcing mapping | new mapshttp://publiclaboratory.org/sites/default/files/4445981062_73945db207_b_2.jpg

crowd sourcing mapping | new mapshttp://grassrootsmapping.org/gulf-oil-spill

LRA crisis trackerhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org

LRA crisis trackerhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org

LRA crisis tracker | Verificationhttp://lracrisistracker.theresolve.org/sites/default/files/Map-Methodology-and-Database%20Codebook%20v1.0.pdf

Photosynth: many eyes, context provisioninghttp://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=f3a648b8-7a4c-4bc4-8396-5746d86225b6

early warningvia crowdsourcing and web agents

Detecting Emergent Conflicts through Web Mining and Visualizationhttp://irevolution.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/detecting-emergent-conflicts-through-web-mining-and-visualization.pdf

Ushahidi Swiftriver

• Ushahidi SwiftRiver | http://ushahidi.com/products/swiftriver-platform

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0Gs7vtrgk

SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.

In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.

crowd sourcing verification

distributed intelligence

JPquake Site: crowdsourcing media reportshttp://www.jpquake.info

Massive data analyticshttp://tomnod.com

Christchurch: damage assessmenthttp://tomnod.com/geocan/

Massive data analyticshttp://irevolution.net/2011/09/19/crowdsourcing-update-on-syria

open data

open data

open data in government

open data in government

open data by NGOs

infoviz

interactive timelineshttp://www.timetoast.com

bundling social media, adding value through curationhttp://www.bundlr.com & http://www.storify.com

word cloudshttp://groundviews.org/2011/05/11/from-draft-to-official-text-wikileaks-reveals-the-us-response-to-the-end-of-war-in-sri-lanka/

interactive graphicshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/03/us/20110503-osama-response.html

infographicshttp://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/

CiM drivers from other domains

• Music industry (pattern based search, e.g. Pandora’s technical + human indexing), social networking (group collaboration,e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook), social networking search (e.g. Grepling), mobile phone apps (e.g. Guardly), marketing engines (e.g. adaptive persuasion profiling), digital forensics (e.g. hyperspectral imaging with UAVs), ground truth profiling (e.g. UNOSAT images on Sri Lanka) many sourcing for situational awareness (e.g. Microsoft Photosynth), Open Data Initiatives (e.g. British, US govt’s, World Bank), visualisation (e.g. Infomous)

new challenges situation awareness & information literacy

filter bubbles

• "A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To Your Interests Right Now Than People Dying In Africa", Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook

• Human gatekeepers being replaced by algorithmic gatekeepers.

• A new, pervasive, almost invisible, systemic filtering?

http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

filtering to counter filter bubbles

• Ushahidi SwiftRiver | http://ushahidi.com/products/swiftriver-platform

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0Gs7vtrgk

SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.

In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.

investing: from lugano to...?

organisational hr & financial costs

Skilled / Paid

Easy / Free

Skilled / Free

Google Maps

Google Moderator

Curated Twitter

Facebook

Google Reader

Google News

Wordpress

IBM ManyEyes Ustream

Flickr

Open Data statistics

Timetoast

Wordle

Flash based infoviz

Easy / Paid

Wordpress VIP

Facebook Ads Flickr Pro

Vimeo

YouTube

Bundlr Storify

Thank yousanjanahattotuwa@ict4peace.org