Reporting LiveCrowdsourcing #Syria Crisis Since 2011

Taha Kass-Hout and Hend Alhinnawi@HNTracker

1st Documented Scabies

(Jabal Hussein Camp)

1st Documented Hepatitis A

(Za'atari Camp مخيم الزعتري)

An Old Ghost Returns…

1st Documented Polio Case in 14 Years (Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate)

https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com/reports/view/3937

World Bodies

(UN, WHO, FAO, OIE)

5

National or Regional

Body

4

Local Officials

Media

3

Humanitarianpractitioners

Relief workers,First responders,

Healthcare workers,Clinicians

2

Public

1

Traditional Humanitarian Reporting

World Bodies

(UN, WHO, FAO, OIE)

National or

Regional Body

Local Officials

Labs

Humanitarianpractitioners

Relief workers,First responders,

Healthcare workers,Clinicians

Public

Citizen & DigitalHumanitarian

Tracking

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

http://www.effectivemeasure.com/mena-mobile-internet-use-figures-unveiled

An Event

Citizen & Digital Humanitarian Tracking

SMS Messaging

Micro Blogging

Emailing

Internet Searching

Social Networking

Internet Chatting

Blogging

Online News Reporting

Video/Radio Reporting

Expert Reporting

Syria Tracker (سوريا تراكر)

• Crowdsource reports– >70,000 reports received

• 4,300 published (<6%)

– Received via• Web• Email• Twitter @syriatracker• SMS

As of Nov 1, 2013

https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com

• News and social media mining

– >180,000 News Articles

– >80,000,000 Tweets

“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/8iTLjuhttps://syriatracker.crowdmap.com

Reports of human rights violations are

only added when they can be verified…

Syria Tracker continued to receive data despite the Internet blackout

Data Speaks

http://goo.gl/guDNgt

http://goo.gl/7VcWtRhttp://goo.gl/GFmj04

http://goo.gl/wWUWD0

Data Speaks

1 in 10 deaths in Syria is a Child

Gun shot, artillery, and air bombardment account for

>85% of killings in Syria

~40per 10K

Population

Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) http://goo.gl/rUZd4X

Syria

Data Speaks

• 7 in 10 children killed by explosive weapons

• boys are twice as likely to be killed as girls

• deliberately targeting children while waiting in breadlines or attending school, bombed in their homes

• 764 have been summarily executed and tortured

• 79 infants killed by small arms

• 154 boys under the age of 13 killed by sniper fire– 85 under the age of 8

http://ref.ec/sf

11,420 children killed in 30 months of Syrian conflict

Data Speaks

Interactive Syria Tracker Dashboard http://goo.gl/fGvw0q

Tableau public Syria Tracker Dashboard http://goo.gl/i2y03y

Data Speaks

Interactive Syria Tracker Dashboard http://goo.gl/fGvw0q

Rising proportions of female killing in Syria

Indiscriminate female killing

Data Speaks

Interactive Syria Tracker Dashboard http://goo.gl/fGvw0q

Rising proportions of targetedfemale killing in Syria

Targeted female killing

Data Speaks

Interactive Syria Tracker Dashboard http://goo.gl/fGvw0q

>20% (2,106) of all female killing

>24% (126) of all sniper-related female killing

>22% of all stabbing-related female killing

Geographic Targeted female killing

Humanitarian Tracker is a WW trusted resource

Conclusions

Combining citizen and digital diplomacy is important for improving

• humanitarian tracking & response

• engaging the public as participants

The Team

Taha Hend Eva Reem

JohnP Clark JohnB Dave

Patrick Volunteer Volunteer

You!

Thank You!