UN Global Pulse Team
= involved in Crisis Mapping
URL = http://www.unglobalpulse.org/
Discussion
Sarah Farmer:
"The UN Global Pulse team is building a series of interconnected
platforms to monitor changes in human wellbeing across the world, based
on a combination of social media, government and commercial data
sources. One of our big issues is security: we want to use an Internet
bearer to connect analysis teams, but we have to protect all our data
sources from each other (we're handling people's and companies' data
that we do not want exposed, even to the analysts and between teams: we
have ideas for embedded processing on source sites to handle much of
this, but we still need to keep a lot of the raw data separated).
Where the autonomous internet really comes in is in a secondary use of these platforms: crises. We are also designing in the ability of the platforms to function in low-bandwidth and intermittent-bandwidth environments: thinking about things like how to keep copies of tools, data and analysis local to each platform so users can still be connected to the global ideas pool, but aren't hampered by bad connections to the outside world. We're currently thinking about, and including in our design, how a system like this (people, processes, tech) can also be used before, during and after a crisis." (March 2011 email, http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet/topics)
More Information
- UN Global Pulse design area: https://sites.google.com/site/unglobalpulse/