Hackathon for Disaster Response

Please join us for the Hackthon for Disaster Response - 21-23 September in Birmingham.
The hackathon includes projects involving python, linked data and semantic technologies.

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As witnessed during recent disasters such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, social media and Web 2.0 technologies�as well as the expanding availability of publicly available structured data�are beginning to dramatically affect all aspects of disaster management. Such technologies permit communication and coordination in ways that were not possible even a few years ago.  Geographically dispersed volunteers now participate in large-scale online collective activities. Official organizations have new channels through which to interact with the public, and they have access to new (and large-scale) providers of both information and services.

Aston University and the University of Warwick are happy to announce the Hackathon for Disaster Response, a 2-day event to bring together software developers and emergency management experts to hack out solutions to disaster-related problems. We will focus specifically on data available via social media, and on structured data (open data, linked data) available from a variety of sources. This event is sponsored as part of the Disaster 2.0 project
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Full details here: http://h4d2.eu/

Christopher


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Operations and Information Management Group,
Aston Business School, Aston University,
Birmingham, B4 7ET, UNITED KINGDOM
Web: http://www.aston.ac.uk/~brewstca/
Tel: +44 121 204 3233
Skype: christopherbrewster
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Received on Monday, 10 September 2012 18:26:50 UTC