The world is already facing the impacts of climate change through increased severity and frequency of natural-event caused disasters. Through our Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab, we are researching ways that data science can help scale and improve the preparation for, mitigation of, response to and recovery from disasters.
Emergency Technologies & Digital Resilience
In the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab, we are researching the design and use of technology in a way that promotes Digitial Resilience, that is private, secure, robust and reliable even in adverse or threatening environments. This brings together maker culture, data science, cybersecurity, privacy and human computer interaction research.
Resilience, privacy and the global cloud
The critical question for data science to answer in the next 10 years
INFO I426/I516 Informatics in disasters and emergency response
Digital Resilience
The dismal state of disaster preparedness in the US and how data science can help
An EOC in your pocket: turning your phone into a state of the art Emergency Operations Center
There are now a plethora of apps and services that mean that if you do have internet service, you can to an amazing degree replicate the functions of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on the smartphone in your pocket. In this article we will describe a set of apps that will enable you to achieve the primary functions of the EOC: meeting & sharing space, phone and radio communications, situational awareness, and access to plans, documents and maps.