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Humanitarian Response

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

Juan & I attended EpiHack Myanmar 2016 in Yangon as facilitators, where we built prototypes for improving the local health surveillance system

Recap of a training on InSTEDD platform tools to staff from the mobile VAM project in the World Food Programme

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...

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 (cross-posted at InSTEDD

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...

Last week I had the chance of giving a lecture with Taha in the context of an InSTEDD presentation about Machine Learning applied in Biosurveillance at the Public Health Informatics course at the Mahidol University in Bangkok. It was a great opportunity...

This week a nice coincidence made possible that I met personally Taha Kass-Hout in DC. We’ve been working for InSTEDD creating a collaborative disease detection and surveillance platform with some machine learning tools. Luckily the restaurant’s tablecloth...

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