Sentence examples for digital humanitarian from inspiring English sources

Ultimately the Missing Maps project will need to recruit the biggest team of digital humanitarian volunteers ever conceived.

In Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response, Meier writes: "Anyone can be a digital humanitarian, absolutely no experience necessary; all you need is a big heart and access to the internet," he claims.

It is important that the big crisis data community and the digital humanitarian community emphasize value-based and ethical humanitarian service.

When his flight was delayed, he kicked into digital humanitarian mode, implementing data analysis systems and coordinating teams of remote first responders.

Apart from commercial solutions such as the Amazon Mechanical Turk (Amazon Mechanical Turk 2016), a number of free and open-source microtasking platforms such as Crowdcrafting (Crowdcrafting 2016c)—which was used by Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) (Digital Humanitarian Network) volunteers in response to Typhoon Pablo in the Philippines—have been developed.

An initiative called Micromappers has enlisted digital humanitarian volunteers to sift through tweets to help emergency services locate those in need during recent major natural disasters including the Pakistan earthquake and Oklahoma tornado.

Restoring, or in some cases creating, the communications infrastructure is essential for the success of relief workers and digital humanitarians.

As described before, this technique helped during the 2010 Haiti earthquake that consequently gave rise to digital humanitarians (Meier 2015 20144).

This challenge was tackled by the digital humanitarians by employing techniques such as crowdsourcing to acquire data and producing crisis maps.

Micromappers performs this tagging operation through volunteer digital humanitarians who leverage a series of microtasking apps called Clickers to focus on different tasks.

Officially and institutionally this is visible in the challenges that surround the development of ethical codes of conducts for digital humanitarians (Meier 2015: 45-60; Resor 2016) or the development of an activation protocol through which OCHA is to include the Standby Task Force (SVT, one of the most prominent V&TCs) in humanitarian response operations (Burns 2014; Gorp 2014).