semantic social mashup approach for designing citizen diplomacy
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Amit Sheth, "Semantic Social Mashup approach for Designing Citizen Diplomacy," position paper/talk at NSF Workshop on Designing Citizen Diplomacy, Irvine, CA, January 27-28, 2011.http://citizendiplomacy-workshop.ics.uci.edu/HomeTRANSCRIPT
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Amit P ShethLexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Thanks to Ashutosh Jadhav, Hemant Purohit.{ashutosh, hemant}@knoesis.org
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Current State of Communication
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Mobile Devices/Communication and Social Networking/Media
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flicker, Blogs etc.
NGO: Red Cross, Ushahidi, eMoksha etc.
Exceptional connectivity, easy and open access
Facebook: 500 M, Twitter 100 M users
Mobile users: 5 Bln, Internet Users: 1.8 Bln
Red Cross: 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide
Current State of Communication
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Current State of Communication
“The U.S. government has been largest donor to the Pakistan flood relief effort, allocating $200 million to date. Yet a recent Pew Foundation poll found about 59% of Pakistanis describe the U.S. as an enemy, while just 11% say it is a partner.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/bombing-the-pakistan-floo_b_684998.html
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Current State of Communication Social media and Mobile applications
doesn’t really resolve conflicts, misunderstanding between countries
Doesn’t help to influence mindsets to avoid terror attacks, wars
But it can act as RAW tools for CD
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Taking action to prevent conflicts and promote peace
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince”
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Taking action to prevent conflicts and promote peace
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince”
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Taking action to prevent conflicts and promote peace
Educating each other of all types of differences, misunderstanding about religious, ideological, cultural, ethnic, national and political differences
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince”
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Taking action to prevent conflicts and promote peace
Voice of the ModerationHidden under extremist influence
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince”
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Taking action to prevent conflicts and promote peace
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince”
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CoordinationBuilding communities of trust – Online & Offline
Taking action to prevent conflicts and promote peace
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince”
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Taking action to prevent conflicts and promote peace
Designing Citizen Diplomacy
Retd. General Stanley McCrystal: “It’s not the number of people you kill, it’s the number of people you convince”
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Socio-technical System
Facilitating advancements in social media and mobile communications
Provides following four levels of support
level 1: meet, communicate and engage
level 2: converse and coordinate, gain insight
level 3: influence and advocate
level 4: sustain, educate and transform
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Twitris
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Facilitates understanding of multi-dimensional
social perceptions over SMS, Tweets, multimedia
Web content, electronic news media
TwitrisSemantic Social Web Mash-up
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TwitrisSemantic Social Web Mash-up
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Domain models to enhance understanding of the content
TwitrisKnowledge-Enabled Computing
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! Co-ordinating needs and resources in disaster situations!
! Analyzing SMS and Web reports from Ushahidi.org!
! Use of domain models for efficient and timely co-ordination !
TwitrisCo-ordination
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Socio-Cultural-Behavior model as lens
! Modeling relationships between social behavior, roles, social & cultural values etc.
Twitris
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Community Formation- Homophily in society!
- Bond of common interest!
- TRUST factor!
Twitris
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References1. A. Huffington, Facebook, Twitter and the Search for Peace in the Middle East, Huffinton Post, Nov 24,
20102. A. Kilkinney, Bombing the Pakistan Flood Victims Into Submission, Huffington Post, Aug 17, 2010 3. Economics focus: Exploding misconceptions, The Economist, Dec 16, 20104. J. Williams, A Realistic Vision for World Peace, TED Talks, Dec 2010 5. U.S. Summit and Initiative For Global Citizen Diplomacy, Washington, DC, November 16-19, 2010 6. M. Nagarajan et al., Spatio-Temporal-Thematic Analysis of Citizen-Sensor Data - Challenges and
Experiences, Tenth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Oct 5-7, 2009, Poland.
7. A. Sheth, Semantic Integration of Citizen Sensor Data and Multilevel Sensing: A comprehensive path towards event monitoring and situational awareness, February 17, 2009.
8. D. Gruhl et al., Multimodal Social Intelligence in a Real-Time Dashboard System, VLDB Journal on 'Data Management and Mining for Social Networks and Social Media', 2010
9. B. Aleman-Meza et al. Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection. In Proceedings of 15th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23–26, 2006, New York: ACM Press, 2006, pp. 406–416.
10. A. Sheth et al., Continuous Semantics to Analyze Real-Time Data, IEEE Internet Computing, November-December 2010, pp. 80-85.
11. M. Nagarajan et al.,A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices, 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2010
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