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Using ICT and social media in disasters: opportunities and risks for government
This report examines four different issue areas to analyze how social media is used in the context of risk and crisis communication, using hurricane Sandy as an example. These areas include: public safety and preparedness; emergency warnings, alerts and requests for assistance; recovery efforts; and, finally, monitoring and situational awareness. In the context of each of these areas, the report highlights the key literature and real-life examples to explore the risks vs. opportunities in the utility of social media. These four areas capture the role of engagement and strategy in both the risk ...
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Available online: https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/34376
Jennifer Giroux ; Florian Roth ; Michel Herzog ; Center for Security Studies ; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Published by: CSS ; 2013This report examines four different issue areas to analyze how social media is used in the context of risk and crisis communication, using hurricane Sandy as an example. These areas include: public safety and preparedness; emergency warnings, alerts and requests for assistance; recovery efforts; and, finally, monitoring and situational awareness. In the context of each of these areas, the report highlights the key literature and real-life examples to explore the risks vs. opportunities in the utility of social media. These four areas capture the role of engagement and strategy in both the risk and crisis space. The 26 page-study is aimed equally at disaster management authorities, policy-makers and academic audiences.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Information management ; Early warning systems ; Cyclone ; United States of America ; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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Understanding needs, meeting demands: A user-oriented analysis of online knowledge broker platforms for climate change and development
This IISD report examines the current state of alignment between climate knowledge brokering (CKB) platforms and the information-seeking and knowledge-sharing behaviour of users of online climate change information. It reviews the case for knowledge brokering and how brokering activities are put into practice online for climate change and development. The paper then outlines the results of research undertaken to understand how CKB platform users assess, access and apply knowledge.
Understanding needs, meeting demands: A user-oriented analysis of online knowledge broker platforms for climate change and development
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Available online: http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2013/understanding_needs_platforms.pdf
A. Hammill ; B. Harvey ; D. Echeverria ; International Institute for Sustainable Development
Published by: IISD ; 2013This IISD report examines the current state of alignment between climate knowledge brokering (CKB) platforms and the information-seeking and knowledge-sharing behaviour of users of online climate change information. It reviews the case for knowledge brokering and how brokering activities are put into practice online for climate change and development. The paper then outlines the results of research undertaken to understand how CKB platform users assess, access and apply knowledge.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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ICTs for climate change adaptation in Africa
This report identifies positive and potentially replicable practice in the use of ICTs for climate change adaptation, drawing on case studies in three countries-Senegal, Uganda and Malawi. It explores the barriers, opportunities, implementation risks and challenges concerning the use of ICTs for adaptation to climate change, and assessed the stakeholders involved.
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Available online: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES [...]
Published by: AfDB ; 2013
This report identifies positive and potentially replicable practice in the use of ICTs for climate change adaptation, drawing on case studies in three countries-Senegal, Uganda and Malawi. It explores the barriers, opportunities, implementation risks and challenges concerning the use of ICTs for adaptation to climate change, and assessed the stakeholders involved.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Information management ; Region I - Africa ; Malawi ; Senegal ; Uganda ; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and climate change adaptation and mitigation: the case of Ghana
This report focuses on exploring an increasingly important question: ‘How can developing countries effectively integrate ICT tools within climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies?’ The contribution of this report is two-fold. It presents the potential of ICTs towards adaptation and mitigation through the concrete case of Ghana, illustrating the challenges and opportunities faced by developing countries in this field. The report complements this analysis by offering concrete lessons learned and practical suggestions aimed at developing country decision makers and practitioners, ...
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and climate change adaptation and mitigation: the case of Ghana
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Available online: http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/4B/01/T4B010000020001PDFE.pdf
Published by: ITU ; 2012
This report focuses on exploring an increasingly important question: ‘How can developing countries effectively integrate ICT tools within climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies?’ The contribution of this report is two-fold. It presents the potential of ICTs towards adaptation and mitigation through the concrete case of Ghana, illustrating the challenges and opportunities faced by developing countries in this field. The report complements this analysis by offering concrete lessons learned and practical suggestions aimed at developing country decision makers and practitioners, thus fostering the adoption of novel, ICT-supported approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Climate ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Climate change - Mitigation ; Ghana ; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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Municipal ICT Capacity and its Impact on the Climate-Change Affected Urban Poor: the case of Mozambique
World Bank, 2012
Municipal ICT Capacity and its Impact on the Climate-Change Affected Urban Poor: the case of Mozambique
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Available online: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRICA/Resources/AFTUW-Mozambique-WEB.pdf
Published by: World Bank ; 2012
Notes: A Poverty & Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) Study
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Extreme weather event ; Disaster management ; Climate change ; Weather service ; Case/ Case study ; Urban zone ; Poverty and Poverty reduction ; Mozambique ; Region I - Africa ; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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Application of ICTs for climate change adaptation in the water sector : developing country experiences and emerging research priorities
As a follow-up to a first paper A preliminary analysis of flood and storm disaster data in Viet Nam, this Quang Binh case study provides a more in-depth disaster profile of one particular province in Viet Nam, including specific temporal and spatial distribution patterns while using district aggregated data. It also looks deeper into the relationship between disasters and poverty through analysis of various indicators: number of deaths, impact on housing and agricultural produce, poverty rate and the percentage of poor households.
The first part of this paper examines the disas ...
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The broadband bridge: linking ICT with climate action for a low-carbon economy : a report by the broadband commission
Broadband commission, 2012The purpose of the report is to raise awareness about the pivotal role that ICT and broadband can play in helping to create the low-carbon economy of the future, and it identifies best practices, expresses the views of leaders and outlines clear recommendations for policymakers.
It emphasizes the kind of transformative solutions that are enabled by broadband and provides practical examples of how broadband can be used to help societies reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, and promote resource efficiency. The report concludes with ...
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PWS, 02. Weather on the internet and other new technologies
The purpose of this Technical Document is to provide guidelines which deal primarily with the provision of weather services to the general public through the Web. However, for completeness, weather services that are more appropriate to the specialized user are also mentioned.
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