Oct 19., 2014
Screening of two films, Nuclear Nation by Atsushi Funahashi and X Years Laterby Hideaki Ito with a discussion with both directors after each film.
Hacking Social Media to Survive Climate Change: A GeoSocial Intelligence Approach
Sept 17., 2014
MIT Urban Risk Lab hosts Etienne Turpin and Tomas Holderness from PetaJakarta.org
PetaJakarta.org is a research collaboration initiated by Dr. Etienne Turpin and Dr. Tomas Holderness of the SMART Infrastructure Facility. The project brings the scientific expertise of the SMART OSGeo Lab and the SMART GeoSocial Intelligence Research Group together with the Jakarta Emergency Management Agency and the United Nations Pulse Lab Jakarta for applied research and integrated testing of social media for infrastructure co-management. The project is supported financially by the University of Wollongong Global Challenges Initiative and the Australian National Data Service; it has received additional support through a Twitter #DataGrant, awarded through the Twitter OSS Engineering Division.
Innovation for Disaster Response and Recovery Demo Day at the White House
August, 2014
Prof. Miho Mazereeuw was one of the guests at the White House to participate in the Innovation for Disaster Response and Recovery Demo Day.
The workshop sessions were aimed at identifying challenges where open data, social media, predictive analytics, sharing economy platforms, standards, and user-centered design can be applied to improve disaster preparedness, and disaster response and recovery efforts.