Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology
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Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...
Nous assistons à la concomitance de la mondialisation de la politique et de la nationalisation d’Internet. La politique est en effet une œuvre magistrale, subtile et délicate par laquelle un monde devient commun. Elle organise la coexistence afin de rendre ...
Natural disasters, population growth, social conflicts, and political or structural crises give rise to forced migrations, which can lead to humanitarian emergencies. According to the “UNHCR annual global trends report”, 65.6 million people were displaced ...
Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) services such as healthcare, smart cities, and marine monitoring are pervasive in cyber-physical environments. These complex IoT services are increasingly composed of sensors, devices, and compute resources within fog c ...
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Social media (SM) platforms have demonstrated their ability to facilitate knowledge sharing on the global scale. They are increasingly often employed in educational and humanitarian domains where, despite their general benefits, they expose challenges pecu ...
Interacting with knowledge in a timely fashion is critical for the success of humanitarian missions. At the same time, the places where humanitarian action is needed are often those where Internet connection is poor or not available at all, making digital ...
