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Privacy Guarantees for Personal Mobility Data in Humanitarian Response [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Personal mobility data from mobile phones and other sensors are increasingly used to inform policymaking during pandemics, natural disasters, and other humanitarian crises. However, even aggregated mobility traces can reveal private information about individual movements to potentially malicious actors.
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Deploying machine learning to assist digital humanitarians: making image annotation in OpenStreetMap more efficient [PDF]
, 2020 Locating populations in rural areas of developing countries has attracted the attention of humanitarian mapping projects since it is important to plan actions that affect vulnerable areas. Recent efforts have tackled this problem as the detection of buildings in aerial images. However, the quality and the amount of rural building annotated data in open
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Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises? [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Can digital payments systems help reduce extreme hunger? Humanitarian needs are at their highest since 1945, aid budgets are falling behind, and hunger is concentrating in fragile states where repression and aid diversion present major obstacles. In such contexts, partnering with governments is often neither feasible nor desirable, making private ...
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Multivariate emulation of computer simulators: model selection and diagnostics with application to a humanitarian relief model [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 2016, 65,
483-505, 2015 We present a common framework for Bayesian emulation methodologies for multivariate-output simulators, or computer models, that employ either parametric linear models or nonparametric Gaussian processes. Novel diagnostics suitable for multivariate covariance-separable emulators are developed and techniques to improve the adequacy of an emulator are ...
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, 2019 Traveling to extreme environments for humanitarian aid mission is now common. Humanitarian aid workers (HAWs) typically travel for extended periods, work in close proximity to local populations, and work in high-risk environments in low-resource regions.
Lachish, Tamar +2 more
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Humanitarian aid: some political realities [PDF]
BMJ, 2006 The scale of current humanitarian crises in the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) is vast and the legacy of past wars persists. Around 60% of the world's refugee population have fled EMRO countries,1 and the region is host to half of the world's refugees.
Richard Brennan, Egbert Sondorp
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Conflict and Health, 2022 Background The 11 years of the devastating conflict in Syria resulted in more than 874,000 deaths, and in more than thirteen million refugees and internally displaced people (UNHCR, Syrian refugee crisis: aid, statistics and news, USA for UNHCR ...
Munzer Alkhalil +4 more
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A Robust Optimization Framework for Two-Echelon Vehicle and UAV Routing for Post-Disaster Humanitarian Logistics Operations [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Providing first aid and other supplies (e.g., epi-pens, medical supplies, dry food, water) during and after a disaster is always challenging. The complexity of these operations increases when the transportation, power, and communications networks fail, leaving people stranded and unable to communicate their locations and needs.
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Conflict and HealthBackground The evolving nature of irregular warfare and the increasingly frequent violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law pose unique challenges for humanitarian actors delivering trauma care in conflict settings.
Nikolaos Markou-Pappas +5 more
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Solidarity Through Localization? Humanitarian Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 This contribution discusses whether humanitarian aid is a suitable tool for expressing global solidarity in the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the distinction between the concepts of humanitarianism and solidarity, as well as the example of the so-called ...
Charlotte Dany
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