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Applied Technologies in Humanitarian Assistance: Report of the 2009 Applied Technology Working Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

P.G. Greenough ,
J.L. Chan ,
P. Meier ,
L. Bateman  and
S. Dutta
P.G. Greenough*
Affiliation:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Division of International Health & Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
J.L. Chan
Affiliation:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
P. Meier
Affiliation:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts USA
L. Bateman
Affiliation:
Division of International Health & Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
S. Dutta
Affiliation:
Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
*
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 14 Story Street, 2nd floor Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA E-mail: ggreenou@hsph.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Information and communication technologies, especially in the forms of mobile telecommunications, satellite imaging, and geographical information systems, promise to significantly improve the practice of humanitarian relief. A working group convened at the Humanitarian Action Summit 2009, has begun investigating the challenges to implementing these technologies in field operations, keeping in mind the ethical considerations of linking people to place, and pledging to build a community of practice among academics, practitioners, and developers.

Keywords

crowd-sourcinggeographic information systems mobile technologynon-governmental organizationspositive deviance model
Type
Working Group 3A
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , supplement S2: 2009 Humanitarian Action Summit , August 2009 , pp. s206 - s209
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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