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Seminar: EU Efforts in Combatting Food Crisis and Piracy in the Horn of Africa
The severe drought of 2011 has threatened more than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa, bringing hunger to Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia and causing famine in some parts of the region. Food...
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Topsy Pro Analytics: Harnessing the Firehose in an Emergency
In the last few weeks we have featured digital tools that can help journalists better understand the social dimensions of crises and disasters. This week we take a look at Topsy Pro Analytics, a social...
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Coding for Humanity: The Rise of New Age Hacktivism
An interesting movement is happening in the world. A recent post from The Next Web pointed out that a new activism or ‘Geektivism’, a movement led by techies to save the world by using technology, is...
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5 Steps to Verifying User-Generated Content
This article was written by Jenny Hauser and originally published at EJC.NET on 14 January, 2013. Republished with permission. When young Arabs took to the streets of North Africa in 2011 to fight for...
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Funding Media to Fill the Humanitarian-Development, North-South Gaps
Whenever we are exposed to severe weather conditions or encounter protests that result in a number of casualties, mainstream as well as social media quickly capture the scenes on the ground and report...
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Digitising Disasters: From Coordinating Relief to Crowdmapping Care
This article was written by Christoph Dennenmoser from HumanityRoad, and originally published on IM EINSATZ . Republished and edited with permission. Assembling the best team possible is the best way...
View ArticleSeminar: Covering State-building in Fragile Situations
Fragility is a term used for states that suffer from bad governance and crises. It is a situation that requires specialised aid agendas, which focus on stabilising the country. On 12-13 March, the...
View ArticleReport –‘Connecting the Last Mile: The Role of Communications in the Great...
It’s been exactly 2 years since Japan, the island country in the Far East, found itself in the middle of a mega-disaster in March of 2011. On the occasion of the two year anniversary of this triple...
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Featured Tool: HealthMap
In a Nutshell: Tool: HealthMap is a map used to monitor epidemic outbreaks and health information across the globe. The map is run by a team at Boston’s Children’s Hospital. Information: Disease...
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‘Newsroom & Emergency Coverage’: Panel Session at the School of Data...
Following the first successful edition last year, the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation will hold another round of Europe’s biggest data journalism event, the School of Data...
View ArticleFeatured Tool: Tomnod
1) In a Nutshell Tool: Tomnod, meaning “Big Eye” in Mongolian, is a platform that extracts key points from satellite imagery by leveraging crowdsourcing and machine learning. By leveraging current and...
View ArticleFeatured Tool: Ushahidi
1) In a nutshell Tool: Ushahidi, meaning “witness” or “testimony” in Swahili, is an open-source mapping tool to easily crowdsource and visualise information on an interactive map. The result is a near...
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Myanmar’s Displaced Wait for Tide to Turn
This article was written by Vivian Tan in Pauk Taw, and originally published on 10 December 2012 in the UNHCR website (Telling the Human Story). Republished with permission. PAUK TAW, Myanmar, December...
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Dutch App Enables Context Curation
This article was written by Gemma van der Kamp, and originally published in the EJC magazine on 1 April, 2013. Republished with permission. Online information has become abundant, making it sometimes...
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Big Data & Newsroom: Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon in Belgium on 1-2 June
Through the Emergency Journalism initiative, the European Journalism Centre (EJC) has focused on bettering the newsroom information workflow during humanitarian crises in the past few months. One of...
View ArticleWorld Refugee Day – Increase in Displacement and Children Most Affected by...
As a result of conflict, generalised violence and other human rights violations, the number of people who are displaced by force is increasing in the world today. According to the new report from...
View ArticleAFP’s Social Media Strategy: From the Ground to the Newsroom
Personalisation is crucial when it comes to the use of social media. As Steve Buttry points out, journalists’ individual use can play an important role in finding sources, building trust through...
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Power to the People: Conference on Crowdsourcing in Manila
This article was written by Louisa Thomas and Simon Winkelmann and originally published at KAS Media Programme Asia on 6 September, 2013. Republished with permission. Asia News Network (ANN) is an...
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Ureport: Local Issues Driving Mobile Participation
This article was written by Dr. Hollie Russon Gilman and originally published at The Transparency & Accountability Initiative on 23 September, 2013. Republished with permission. A concept we return...
View ArticleFeatured Tool: Facebook Graph Search
1) In a nutshell Tool: Graph Search is a new initiative by Facebook that allows users to extract information from their social circles, as well as publically shared posts, through natural language...
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