How can the experiences of affected communities be combined with AI for better crisis response? Join us tomorrow to discover an emerging humanitarian innovation approach, CCI. Hear from Kathy Peach, HeatherLeson - @[email protected], SentrySyria Hala Systems & AIDR bit.ly/37ZdKok

Had a great pleasure speaking at Nesta event today abt collective intelligence aspects of our AIDR and a joint deployment for rapid damage assessment during Hurricane Dorian with Steve Peterson Work done at QCRI with ferda ofli Umair Qazi Firoj Alam

Delighted and honored to speak at The United Nations Environment Programme UN Environment Programme event yesterday on the use of AI for disaster response with 200+ participants from all over the world. Presented our work on time-critical analysis of SM text and image streams from QCRI

We've activated our Rapid Damage Assessment system to capture damage reports emerging from Oman and Iran caused by Tropical Cyclone Shaheen. Live damage reports: rda-aidr.qcri.org/cyclone_shahee… QCRI Qatar Foundation جامعة حمد بن خليفة

While the entire world was showing moderate to strong negative sentiment, surprisingly Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries show a strong positive sentiment. Numbers on the map are z-scores computed using the representative sentiment tweets normalized by the total tweets.

Global digital divide--measured through the type of device used to post tweets. - Android is most used 103 countries (48%) - Apple used in 97 (45%) - And, Web apps used in 17 countries (7%) Apple dominates in rich countries---however you might spot some exceptions Details 👇

Gender gap (female-to-male ratio) as reflected on Twitter during #COVID19 measured using 46 million personal accounts of which 42% represent female and 57% male worldwide. Further analysis may help understand biases (unseen or otherwise) & make progress towards gender equality.

GeoAI Challenge Call: We're organizing a challenge on Location Mention Recognition from hazard-related tweets, a crucial task for crisis response. shorturl.at/GMPY8 Prizes (CHF): 1st: 1000 2nd: 500 3rd: 200 Thanks Int’l Telecommunication Union for sponsoring and hosting this important challenge.

Participate in solving critical social good challenges related to mapping schools, classifying cropland, and extracting location data. We target the automatic Location Mention Recognition problem with/ريم Tamer Elsayed Lokendra Chauhan ferda ofli & Ehsan. Thx AI for Good 🇺🇳 #AIforGood

Devastating floods in Pakistan submerged one-third of the country. More than 33 Million people are affected and in need of immediate aid. 2K+ people so far killed, one-third of whom are believed to be children. Please help by donating. #Pakistan #PakistanFloods

District-level flood & damage assessment through social media images. 49 out of 141 districts show severe impact. We used state-of-the-art computer vision damage assessment models on Twitter images posted from Pakistan as of September 1st. #PakistanFloods Imran Khan

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) features our Global Landslide Detection work. preventionweb.net/news/new-lands… Work done with/@PenningtonCath of British Geological Survey, EMSC, roch julien and ferda ofli, Umair Qazi at QCRI

After devastating Turkey Syria EQ on Feb 6, we deployed our text & image processing systems to help response orgs, incld UNDP, find missing ppl reports, shelter requests, damage reports using over 60M tweets. District-level agg results attached. DM if u need access to data/page.

Our Türkiye-Syria earthquake analysis based on over 70 million Twitter messages is now published on #HDX--featured by OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data of UN Humanitarian. Work done w/Umair Qazi & ferda ofli at QCRI #Türkiye #TurkeySyriaEarthquake

Thrilled to see SDGs Today feature our Türkiye earthquake work, a collaboration with UN Development Surge Data Hub team to map missing people, damages, and shelter requests at the district level. Work done at QCRI of جامعة حمد بن خليفة & Qatar Foundation Ahmed Elmagarmid ferda ofli storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/6f…

Delighted to have presented at the UN Development's social media analysis course event today! Engaging Q&A with 127 participants from across the globe representing various United Nations orgs. At QCRI, we take pride in supporting the UN with AI tech for crisis magmt & capacity-building.

On Int'l Day for #Disaster Risk Reduction, we applaud those using innovative #geospatial methods to support disaster relief❤️‍🩹#DRRDay We highlight QCRI, which mapped damage, missing people, & shelter demand w/#AI & #socialmedia in Türkiye 👉 bit.ly/3OmnnDa

ROAD CLOSED. Due to continuous landslides and rockfalls brought about by intermittent rains, Sitio Banquero and Barangay Pancian at KM 578+800 in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte is not passable to all type of vehicles on Sunday (Dec. 3, 2023).

Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid inaugurates the E-Analytics Innovation Lab course, a collaborative effort by UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and QCRI in Doha. Hosting the DPPA Innovation Cell in Qatar is a great honor, and we eagerly anticipate nurturing mutually beneficial collaborations. Martin Waehlisch

Happy to share I was awarded the 2nd Best GIS Work and Presentation at the GIS Technology Day, organized by the Center of GIS & the Ministry of Municipality. I showcased the use of AI and GIS to enhance crisis response using remote and social sensing data. QCRI