Reporting Live : Crowdsourcing #Syria Crisis Since April 2011

Crowdsourcing #Syria Crisis Since 2011: Humanitarian Tracker's flagship project, Syria Tracker, is the longest standing crowdsource effort and one of the most trusted sources of information on Syria since the conflict broke out in March 2011. Humanitarian Tracker; a global non-profit forum that connects and empowers citizens using innovation in technology to support humanitarian causes.

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1. Reporting  Live   Crowdsourcing  #Syria  Crisis  Since  April  2011   Hend Alhinnawi and Taha Kass-Hout @HNTracker
2. 1st Documented Scabies (Jabal Hussein Camp) 1st Documented Hepatitis A (Za'atari Camp يرتعزلا ميخم) An  Old  Ghost  Returns…   1st Documented Polio Case in 18 Years (Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate) https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com/reports/view/3937  
3. Mobile  –  Aggressive  Momentum   •  Mobile  makes  up  15%  of   all  Internet  traffic   –  30%  gain  from  2012   compared  to  8%  new   Internet  users   –  24%  of  citizens   worldwide  share  “most   or  everything”   •  ~50%  of  MENA  internet   users  access  the  web   via  their  mobile  phones   h"p://www.effec+vemeasure.com/mena-­‐mobile-­‐internet-­‐use-­‐figures-­‐unveiled  
4. Syria  Tracker  (ركارت  ايروس)   •  Crowdsource  reports   –  >70,000  reports  received   •  ~5,000  published  (<6%)   –  Received  via   •  Web   •  Email   •  Twitter  @syriatracker   •  SMS   As  of  Jun  17,  2014   https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com     •  News  and  social  media   mining   –  >200,000  News  Articles     –  >80,000,000  Tweets  
5. “Syria  Tracker  is  one  of  the  longest-­‐ running  crisis  maps…”   …mines  through   some  2,000   sources  that   regularly  cover   Syria  (including   pro-­‐Assad  sources)   ...both  USAID  and  the   US  Office  for  Foreign   Disaster  Assistance   continue  to  integrate   Syria  Tracker  data  into   their  own  official  crisis   maps  and  information   products   Syria  Tracker  is  one  of   the  longest-­‐running   crisis  maps…   http://goo.gl/8iTLju     https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com     Reports  of  human   rights  violations  are   only  added  when  they   can  be  verified…  
6. Syria  Tracker  continued  to  receive   data  despite  the  Internet  blackout  
7. Data  Speaks   http://goo.gl/guDNgt   http://goo.gl/GFmj04     http://goo.gl/wWUWD0     http://goo.gl/7VcWtR   http://ref.ec/sf    
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9. 78 Missile 127 Beating & stabbing Collateral damage geted cks 11 Asphyxiation 118 Chemical 117 Collateral damage Targeted a acks 500 250 100 25 1 2011 2012 2013 2014 0 200 400 600 ere’s Syria’s three-year-old civil war – mapped in all its morbid chaos. “It’s now more of a dirty war, with weapons killing people indiscriminately, rather than a conflict between armed combatants,” says Stefan Heeke, executive director of SumAll.org, the non-profit, social-issues- focused wing of US data-analytics startup SumAll.com. His team collaborated with Humanitarian Tracker, a non-profit that provides crowdsourced and verified data for citizen journalists, and has documented more than 100,000 killingsinSyria.“Wehavefirstandlastnames,howandwheretheydied, genderandage,oftenaccompaniedbyphotosandvideo,”Heekesays. SumAll.org created a visual dashboard that lets anyone mine the data, looking for patterns. There has been a spike in civilian deaths in recent months, while overall deaths rates have remained stable. “The percentage of women being killed, which is used as a proxy for civilian deaths,hasgonefromonepercentinApril2011toover13percentearlier thisyear,”Heekesays.“Inrecentmonthsthereweresixincidentswhere more than a dozen females were killed outside of a battle situation – possibly an indicator of massacres.” The types of death are also telling. “The majority of female casualties have been due to artillery, gunshot and air bombardment – consistent with indiscriminate killings,” he says. And at least 528 women were killed by sniper fire, suggesting that snipersmaybeindiscriminatelychoosingtheirvictims. MVsumall.org War’swheelofdestruction Detailed crowdsourced data from Syria shows how civilians, increasingly women, are being killed ILLUSTRATION: SIGNAL NOISE A terror a ack by pro-government shabiha militiamen was responsible for 51 fatalities, including children This a ack, using the nerve agent sarin, occurred on August 21, 2013, around Damascus Total number of female deaths for each month Number of casualties Types of casualties 001_WI7731-001_JUL14 2:36 AM 5/13/14 2011 2012 MAY JUL SEP NOV 2013 MAY JUL SEP NOV MAR MAY JUL SEP NOV MAR 2014 MAR 6,027 Artillery 1, 1 1,, 1 2 236 Air bombardment 2,114 Gunshot 128 Wounds 109 Resource outage 7 Stress 37 Torture 528 Sniper 405 51 233 S T A R S T A R INFO PORN Gunshot casualties in February 2012 accounted for the deaths of 233 women in a single month Artillery took its highest casualty toll in August 2012, killing 405 women during that month 0 3 3 48172_002_WI7731-001_JUL14 2:37 AM 5/13/14 Citizen  Journalism  
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13. Conclusions   Combining  citizen  and  digital  diplomacy  is   important  for  improving   •  humanitarian  tracking  &  response   •  engaging  the  public  as  participants   •  sustainable  development  
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