Big Data, Surveillance and Crisis Management

Kees Boersma is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University, Amsterdam Chiara Fonio is currently working at the Joint Research Centre with a contract as CA (Contractual Agent)

• Big Data, Surveillance and Crisis Management, by Kees Boersma and Chiara Fonio Part I Social media and crisis management The use of social media for crisis management: a privacy by design approach, by Muhammad Imran, Patrick Meier and Kees Boersma Mining social media for effective crisis response: machine learning and disaster response, by Rachel Finn, Hayley Watson and Kush Wadhwa Between the promise and reality of using social media in crisis management: lies, rumours and vigilantism, by Gemma Galdon Clavell Part II Big Data and health surveillance Biosecuring public health: the example of ESSENCE, by Henning Füller Triggering action: participatory surveillance and event detection in public health emergency management, by Martin French and Baki Cakici Part III Case studies on disasters, crisis and big data Resilience, surveillance and big data in crisis management: case studies from Europe, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, by Charles Leleux and C. William R. Webster Monitoring a big data cyclon: the Sardinian case, by Allesandro Burato Intersecting intelligence: exploring big data disruptions, by Xaroula Kerasidou, Katrina Petersen and Monika Büscher ‘Value-Veillance’: Opening the black box of surveillance in emergency management, by Karolin Eva Kappler and Uwe Vormbusch Times of crises and the development of the Police National Automatic Number Plate Recognition System in the UK, by Clive Norris and Xavier D L'Hoiry

"Big Data, Surveillance, and Crisis Management" represents an urgently needed and profoundly relevant contribution to the emerging body of scholarship about the role data and information technologies now play in how crises now unfold and how we respond to them. The voices in this volume are at the front lines of both practice and research in the multiple, interconnected fields that comprise the area of crisis informatics. We would do well to carefully and closely listen to what they are saying about how digital data is changing an already volatile world. Dr. Nathaniel Raymond, Director Signal Program on Human Security and Technology, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.I. Chan School of Public Health.Kees Boersma and Chiara Fonio undertake a major challenge in their edited book, "Big Data, Surveillance, and Crisis Management", in addressing both the positive and negative aspects of integrating the increasing amounts of digital data available from diverse sources into crisis management. On the positive side, advanced technologies provide access to many more sources of information about an emerging event in near-real time. On the negative side, this same access may compromise rights of privacy and lead to hasty judgments from unverified sources. The authors address this challenge of credibility by examining both the design and use of algorithms to mine the range of data sources and the uses of these methods of analysis in actual crisis situations. This problem warrants serious consideration, and the editors and their co-authors in this thoughtful book present a timely assessment. Louise K. Comfort, Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director, Center for Disaster Management, University of PittsburghThis volume brings together two central concerns of our time — big data and crisis management — to provide us with crucial ways of thinking about our changing information environment. It p