CP102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ushahidi, Antibody, Unstructured Data
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The impact of technology in a changing world. Social media tools: enable people to connect and exchange ideas. People get the majority of their news from unsubstantiated, incomplete reports on social media. Crisis-mapping tool: software ushahidi : crisis-mapping tool that collects information from e-mails, text messages, blog posts and tweets and maps them, making the information publicly available, used in international disasters. During the tsunami in japan, ushahidi let anyone with a mobile phone nd locations with clean water and food. Health care: with newer scienti c visualization tools, scientists are developing antibodies for u viruses and even hiv, computationally intense modelling software is helping researchers increase the pace of vaccine production. The nei won funding from google"s project 10. Additional examples of people putting technology into action to impact the world. Technology impacts how and why we connect and collaborate.
