Crisis Informatics request for proposals (Facebook)

Description

Facebook is supporting new and innovative research in the area of crisis informatics to make social media tools more useful to people responding to or impacted by a disaster. The research should explain how social media is currently used during a disaster, and it will unlock new tools and products to improve disaster response and recovery. No Facebook data will be provided to award recipients.

Key areas, including but not limited to:

•Methods for assessing the validity, relevance and usefulness of crisis maps or other data products for disaster preparedness, response and recovery

•Topics and themes of social media posts that transcend individual regions, languages and disaster types

•Methods for identifying disaster relief needs and conditions on the ground from social media posts and civilian reporting

•Statistical models of movement, evacuation and long-term displacement due to natural disasters

•Quantitative and qualitative insights into how humanitarian response organizations make use of social media or crisis informatics datasets for disaster preparedness, response and recovery

•Novel techniques for visualization of social media crisis data

•Case studies in the use of social media crisis data by humanitarian organizations

•Data privacy in crisis informatics and social media crisis data

•Bias and fairness in social media crisis data and its impact on disaster response

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Crisis Informatics request for proposals