Applying Technology to Crisis Mapping and Early Warning in Humanitarian Settings

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Author(s)
Meier, P. & Leaning, J.
Publication language
English
Pages
12pp
Date published
01 Sep 2009
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Comms, media & information, Conflict, violence & peace, Early warning

The purpose of this Working Paper on Crisis Mapping is to briefly analyze the current use, and changing role of information communication technology (ICT) in conflict early warning, crisis mapping and humanitarian response. We demonstrate that ICTs have the potential to play an increasingly significant role in three critical ways by" facilitating the communication of information in conflict zones, improving the collection of salient quantitative and qualitative conflict data, and enhancing the visualisation and analysis of patterns.