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• Michael Smith MD, MPH• twitter: @docmikesmith skype: docmjsmith
Uses of ICT to Impact Organizational and Operational Challenges in Disaster Management
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(transformational technologies)
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Current uses of ICT in disasters
• Patient tracking (akin to logistics )• Assessments - epidemiologic / need / damage• Geolocating areas of need • Communications within organizations• Capturing and sharing data • Incident management
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Patient tracking (logistics)
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Patient tracking (logistics)
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WIISARD
LA Lenert, D Kirsh, WG Griswold, C Buono, J Lyon, R Rao, TC Chan. Design and evaluation of a wireless electronic health records system for field care in mass casualty settings. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18(6):842-52. Epub 2011 Jun 27
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Assessments - epidemiologic / needs / damage
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Assessments - epidemiologic / needs / damage
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Geolocating areas of need
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Communications within organizations
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Capturing and sharing data
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Capturing and sharing data
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Challenges to Sharing Information
• Structure and motivation of the agencies• Leadership capabilities• Social / political structures of the affected area• Needs drive communication – needs for
fundraising lead to competitive motivations
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Signs of poor collaboration
• Process is confused with results • Misallocation of resources • Maldistribution of teams • Resupplies not coordinated between groups• Survivor problems evolve to a critical state
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Incident management
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Leading ICT challenges in disaster response
• perceiving survivors’ needs in near real-time
• assessing damage geographically
• creating greater horizontal and vertical integration of the response community
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Refunite
Perceiving survivors’ needs in near real time
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Perceiving survivors needs – text analysis
• Natural Language Processing - the Holy Grail• Currently uses two methods:
probalistic topic models parallel bilingual corpora
• Mechanical Turk method of crowdsourcing translations not sustainable
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Probalistic topic models
Start with 2 billion tweetsTrain a binary classifier to search for all terms related to “flu” with 5,100 training examples
fever/ sneeze/ cough/ pain, etc= 1.63 million hits,
Tweets categorized as ailments, symptoms, and treatments. Excludes “confusers” – “I got Bieber fever”
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QCRI’s people trained algorithm classifies large volumes of texts into various categories for individualized attention by programs like micromappers, and Crisis Trackers
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Bilateral parallel corpora
Used to teach computers languagesIncludes a known language next to the other ‘slanguage’Builds similarities
(essentially the Rosetta stone in cyber age)
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Providing integration – horizontal and vertical
Integration requires communication
Organization requires situational awareness
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