Articles
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Collier, Paul, Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, Harper Collins, 2009.
"There is...a powerful case for security and...
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If more weight is placed on the use of mobile phones in a disaster, what kind of trade-offs might a survivor have to make to stay tied-in to such a capability? To be effective, individuals should be able to use the service, but, can they...
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Sen, Amartya, Development as Freedom, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Freedom "cannot yield a view of development that translates readily into some simple 'formula'."...
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Can web-based, wiki-style collaboration complement on-the-ground aid delivery? What benefits and challenges emerge when a "here comes everybody" approach is applied to a disaster zone?
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Paul Donahue is an Assistant Multimedia Specialist for Creative Services in GEO’s Stuttgart, Germany office. This article is an account of his recent experiences following the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The story and pictures...
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Crises like the recent earthquake in Haiti focus public and official attention toward the mechanisms of response efforts—and toward information management in particular. A major challenge in understanding the efficacy of crisis communications...
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Using the humanitarian crisis in Haiti as a lense, we examine the nature of Web-enabled interactions in modern disaster responses, the state of cooperation across institutional structures, and the opportunities and challenges presented by...
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Our distributed network of colleagues provide unique access to local insights and requirements.
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Connecting with our colleagues around the world is an experience we'd like to share, and a brief Q & A seems like an ideal way to do just that.
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Uninformative, misleading, or simply bad presentation designs: What an obsession with PowerPoint says about how we communicate complex issues.