Kush Wadhwa

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of semi-structured interviews with 20 Red Cross Red Crescent and humanitarian actors, an online survey, two workshops and desk-based research to examine the opportunities and barriers faced by humanitarian actors in using social media analysis tools to analyse social media data for disaster preparedness.

TL;DR: In this paper, a special case of exclusion concerns the gap between those people with effective access to digital and information technology and those without access to it, the digital divide, which in Europe is chiefly age-related Policies to overcome the digital gap and, more generally speaking, e-inclusion policies addressing the ageing population raise some ethical problems.

TL;DR: This paper examines the legal tools available to ensure that privacy and personal data protection are respected in attempts to ensure the security of the authors' society, and finds that improvements are needed in the legal and regulatory framework if privacy is indeed to be respected by law enforcement authorities and intelligence agencies.

TL;DR: The role of big data in the different stages of crisis management and the organizational and societal benefits associated with engagement with this data are outlined and it is demonstrated that big data is also able to positively inform preparation and precrisis efforts.

TL;DR: It is concluded that problems of variability and consistency across the open access ecosystem need to be addressed within and between these areas to ensure that risks surrounding a data gap are managed in open access.