Hi all
I am writing on behalf of the KDD Data Ethics Workshop (
http://dataethics.github.io), which I am helping organize on August 24 in
New York.
KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) is one of the top data science
conferences and this year's theme is "Data Mining for Social Good", so the
c
Take the advice *not* to use SMS. I'd also avoid any NGO software that
insists it was written for humanitarian purposes: this branding is
usually skin deep and they are often less secure than off-the-shelf
software. There are exceptions, like much of what Benetech produces,
but if you need to ask l
> The most noteworthy being that Internews seems to have proclaimed Skype a
> completely acceptable
> technology, with no evidence of its encryption being broken.
During the Arab Spring, I helped translate documents that were
liberated from an information ministry. They included transcripts of
Sk
I second the criticism about the assumptions of a 'perfect population
register'. This is a much broader problem, as shown by the Netflix
case. For a good synopsis, see Pete Warden's take on the problem, some
examples of how external data can be used to help reverse anonymized
data, and some suggest
Hi TJ
I helped launch the 'Crisis Informatics and Analytics' course within
Tulane's disaster leadership MA program earlier this year (
http://commons.drlatulane.org/) and was the instructor for the community
engagement, crowdsourcing, and security classes.
I'm happy to share some of the materials
The first full report about Mission 4636 "Crowdsourcing and
Crisis-affect Community" is now at:
http://www.mission4636.org/report/
The page contains a link to the report which will be published in the
Journal of Information Retrieval, a summary of
findings/recommendations, and the comments from
