COMRADES project introduction
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The COMRADES project aims to develop an intelligent platform to empower communities to respond to and recover from crisis situations using social media. Led by Harith Alani at the Open University, the consortium includes Ushahidi, Delft University of Technology, and University of Sheffield. The project will extract requirements, identify emergency events on social media, assess information validity, and deploy the COMRADES platform to support communities during live crises. It will run in two periods over multiple crisis types and aims to produce 30 peer-reviewed publications and 40 scientific outputs to empower local communities through information sharing.
COMRADES project introduction
- 1. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European UnionFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union www.comrades-project.eu COMRADES Harith Alani Project Coordinator The Open University 1
- 2. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Agenda 2
- 3. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Consortium Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK www.open.ac.uk Ushahidi Ltd, Kenya www.ushahidi.com Delft University of Technology https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ University of Sheffield, UK www.sheffield.ac.uk Government to You, Belgium www.gov2u.org 3
- 4. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union AGEOF DISASTERS Kerala flooda, August 2018, ~400 fatalities, ~500K people displaced voanews.com Attica, Greece, Wild fires, July 2018, 98 deaths bloomberg.co m Japan, Typhoon Jebi, Sept 2018, 17 deaths japantimes.co.jp.com Hurricane Maria, Oct 2017, 3K fatalities thefrontpageonline.com/ Lombok, Indonesia, Earthquake, August 2018, over 500 deaths uk.businessinsider.com/ Project still relevant?
- 5. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union POWER OF INFORMATION “Disaster-affected people need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and resources.” 7
- 6. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union 8
- 7. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union DISASTER RESPONSE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA “The models that are emerging indicate that affected people are becoming extremely adept at using social media platforms in particular to engage in networked systems of response. This means they are able to post about specific needs and solicit individual responses to those needs, and that people offering specific help can also do so” 9
- 8. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union 10
- 9. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union 11
- 10. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union EMPOWERING LOCAL COMMUNITIES?! 12
- 11. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union https://federalnewsradio.com/digital-government/2016/03/fema-hhs-turn-social-listening-better-disaster-response/ FEMA MOBILE APP “Unfortunately, we’ve been underwhelmed with the use of that app, because I think everyone is at the Weather Channel doing their Instagrams there,” …. “Instead of trying to do everything ourselves, we need to find smarter ways to integrate the social media world more effectively into how we perform our business functions.” Scott Shoup chief data officer at FEMA 13
- 12. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union ”Immediate damage estimates based on FEMA models can miss areas of heavy impact. Augmenting initial models with real-time analysis of social media and crowdsourced information can help identify overlooked areas. Twitter-sourced estimates were virtually available as people tweeted distress signals, of these parcel-level damage estimates, 46 percent were not captured by FEMA estimates.” FEMA MISSES HURRICANE DAMAGE REPORTED ON TWITTER 14
- 13. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union CHALLENGES VOLUME VALUE VARIETY VALIDITY Too much content to handle manually More content is coming in all the time Rumours and hoaxes are common during disasters Content is often repetitive and uninformative Much of the content is irrelevant VELOCITY 15
- 14. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union OBJECTIVES OF COMRADES PROJECT COMRADES aims to empower communities with intelligent socio- technical solutions to help them reconnect, respond to, and recover from crisis situations. Main objectives: O1: Extract the socio-technical requirements for collective resilience platforms O2: Automatically identify, process, assess, and monitor emergency events in distributed communities and social media sources O3: Measure the informativeness and validity of crisis information O4: Develop the intelligent COMRADES platform for community resilience O5: Deploy COMRADES to support real and distributed communities during live crises events 16
- 15. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union WORKPLAN 17
- 16. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union WP3 18WP2 WP4 WP5 WP2 WP6 1st Periodic Period
- 17. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union 2nd Periodic PeriodWP2 19WP3 WP5 WP4 Wildfire/Bushfire E’quakes Flood/Typhoons Terror Shooting/Bombing Train Crash Meteor Haze Helicopter Crash Building Collapse Location Fire Explosion 30 peer-reviewed publications 40 scientific outputs WP6 Reporters Volunteer & technical community Affected community Responders WP2