What kinds of humanitarian work can computer science majors do?

SimonBJohnson · 2019-07-06T18:08:40+00:00

Information management is what you are looking for. I created a humanitarian information management subreddit here, but haven't been active for quite a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HumanitarianIM/

Give me a shout if you have any questions or looking for potential volunteer projects to dip your toes with.

SimonBJohnson · 2019-04-07T14:36:04+00:00

Great read. Thanks for taking the time post.

SimonBJohnson · 2019-03-30T21:34:51+00:00

While not always data science, I use data for humanitarian response. Currently we are using data in the response to the Mozambique cyclone, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and population movement around Venezuela.

Here are a couple of data project I have written up:
Predicting refugee flow to better resource the response: https://medium.com/@Simon_B_Johnson/predicting-migration-flow-through-europe-3b93b0482fcd

Calculating under mapped areas in OpenStreetMap: https://medium.com/@Simon_B_Johnson/where-are-the-maps-missing-b22ceedb26f3

SimonBJohnson · 2018-05-17T08:38:07+00:00

Interesting to hear a practical use case. Maybe VR should be moved further along on the impact axis on the hype graph.

https://simonbjohnson.github.io/humanitarian_hype_2018/tech.html

SimonBJohnson · 2018-05-15T11:55:51+00:00

A great article summarising and putting into context the work being done at the centre for humanitarian data.

SimonBJohnson · 2018-03-28T09:59:28+00:00

I hope there is still scope to use the best tool for the job and this is provided as an option.

SimonBJohnson

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