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Deploying machine learning to assist digital humanitarians: making image annotation in OpenStreetMap more efficient

Locating populations in rural areas of developing countries has attracted the attention of humanitarian mapping projects since it is important to plan actions that affect vulnerable areas. Recent efforts have tackled this problem as the detection of buildi ...

2021

Building a path towards responsible use of Biometrics

Justinas Sukaitis

Like many other enterprises, humanitarian organizations are investing in their digital transformation. In this sector, an important effort is put into biometric solutions. The ICRC has been exploring new ways of how they could integrate biometrics into the ...

2021

Self-help housing / autoconstruction

Sila Karatas

This is a historical inquiry on self-help housing, or autoconstruction as its French equivalent, a term mainly overlooked by architects but favoured by policymakers for low-cost housing development. Self-help housing has been a field of ‘aid’ or ‘assistanc ...

2021

Online morphological adaptation for tactile sensing augmentation

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Sensor morphology and structure has the ability to significantly aid and improve tactile sensing capabilities, through mechanisms such as improved sensitivity or morphological computation. However, different tactile tasks require different morphologies pos ...

Frontiers Media S.A.2021

A Closing Window of Opportunity to Save a Unique Marine Ecosystem

Anders Meibom, Maoz Fine

Five years in the making, a massive oil spill of 1 million barrels is imminent in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. Emergent action must be taken by the United Nations and its International Maritime Organization (IMO) to remove the oil, despite regional ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Introduction to the Swiss Data Custodian

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss, Olivier Verscheure

Trust in the use of sensitive data is not nearly widespread. Even though there is no shortage in tools and methods to address the digitisation of our society and industries, the acquisition and access to non-open data represent the greatest challenge. In t ...

2019

Modelled effects of prawn aquaculture on poverty alleviation and schistosomiasis control

Andrea Rinaldo, Lorenzo Mari, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Marino Gatto

Recent evidence suggests that snail predators may aid efforts to control the human parasitic disease schistosomiasis by eating aquatic snail species that serve as intermediate hosts of the parasite. Here, potential synergies between schistosomiasis control ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Citizen Mapping: Using Common Geospatial Technologies to Map Informal Settlements in São Paulo, Brazil

Vitor Pessoa Colombo

The present paper focuses on the work conducted by the NGO Teto in São Paulo (Brazil), where a series of datasets providing geographic information on slums is being elaborated thanks to recent geospatial technologies well suited for a non-specialist, volun ...

2018

Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Over the last decade, the study of group behavior for multimodal interaction technologies has increased. However, we believe that despite its potential benefits on society, there could be more activity in this area. The aim of this workshop is create a for ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...

ACM2017

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