*Peer to peer social networking for disaster relief - Introducing Crowd Aid Exchange* <http://crowdaidexchange.eventbrite.com> An introduction to Crowd Aid Exchange, and a discussion on the use of peer-to-peer social networking technology to empower people before, during and after disasters. * Date: *Thursday, February 21st, Time: 5:30pm - 7pm *Venue:* University of Cambridge, Sociology Department, Free School Lane Followed by Drinks at the Bath House, Bene't Street
Crowd Aid Exchange is a new project, developed by Cambridge graduate student Richard Dent, to realise technology's potential to provide secure resource trading, people finding, news aggregation and efficient communication for isolated people. As climate change-related disasters continue to push governments and NGOs' resources beyond capacity, Crowd Aid Exchange looks to the power of the populace to help one another find effective, efficient solutions to problems that occur during disaster situations.Crowd Aid Exchange builds on a rapidly growing sector of crowd source technology which includes Google Response, Ushahidi and American Red Cross's digital operations. The event will include a 45 minute talk about the project by developer Richard Dent, including highlights from existing platforms and academic research in this field. A panel of experts will feedback on the challenges and complementaries they see for the project, and the audience will be invited to join the discussion. *Register here: http://crowdaidexchange.eventbrite.com** *** _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
