EnglishTITLE
Supporting resilience to climate-related hazards and natural disasters through the combination of social media, geographical and heterogeneous data
SHORT DESCRIPTION
The goal of the project is to develop a prototype, based on existing data sources and tools, aimed at supporting resilience against natural disasters. The focus is on understanding how different sources of data (social media, news, forecasting and warning systems), can be integrated in order to enhance monitoring and warning capabilities. The project is related to indicators of United Nations SDG 13 (Climate change) and is proposed within the Crowd4SDG project.
PROPOSERS
Barbara Pernici, Carlo Bono (DEIB)
Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez, Citizen Lab, University of Geneva
REQUIRED COMPETENCES
Python
Preferred, not mandatory: Data wrangling and analysis, Data visualization
Results from the multisciplinary project last year
Olimpia Rivera, Juan Felipe Calderon, Paul Planchon, Barbara Pernici, Evaluating the impact of floods on gender equality from social media evidence, 2nd AISWN International Research Workshop on Women IS and Grand Challenges @ICIS, Dec. 2021 link