disaster response

9 min

Lessons learned from facilitating an InSTEDD-hosted workshop to explore innovative uses of UAVs for disaster management at Singularity University Labs in NASA.

Pacific Endeavor is a humanitarian communication workshop, organized by the US Pacific Command, which brings together military representatives from all SE Asia, NGOs and industry leaders. Its main goal is to improve the multi-national communications...

(cross-posted at InSTEDD) ‘Information is a vital form of aid in itself […] Disaster-affected people need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and resources.’ (World Disasters Report 2005...

This past week at Camp Roberts has been incredible. All of the groups present did an amazing work, and we got to test InSTEDD's GeoChat in a completely different scenario and integrate it with most of the other applications present to come up with...

This week Star Tides, in partnership with the Naval Postgraduate School, will be organizing a Concept-based Experimentation (CBE) in Camp Roberts (CA). The objective is to to analyze the state of the art of current social and information related applications...