The purpose of the HHI working paper series is to disseminate preliminary research results, conference proceedings, and best practice guidelines in the areas where HHI has major programs. This quarterly series provides a forum for HHI faculty and fellows to share their research findings with the humanitarian community and to solicit substantive feedback prior to submission of manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals.
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Applied Technology to Crisis Mapping and Early Warning in Humanitarian Settings By Patrick Meier and Jennifer Leaning, September 2009. The purpose of this Working Paper Series 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. The authors 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 visualization and analysis of patterns. |