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Note: page numbers in italics refer to figures. Active Citizen platform, 54 actor network theory, 248 artificial intelligence, 151, 186 Atlas for the End of the World, 167 behavioural modification, 97 borders, 10, 20, 119, 126, 133, 144, 145, 146, 148, 156, 163, 174 Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data, 77 categorical fetishism, 127 citizen data scientist tools (CDSTs), 187 Columbus, Christopher, 21 Comprehensive Refugee Response Coordination (CRRF), 220 continental philosophy, 17 crowdsourced mapping, 3, 10, 41 crowdsourcing, 41, 43, 51, 70, 71, 72, 82, 150, 202, 223 cultural historical activity theory, 39, 45 Dajiang Enterprises (DJI), 93 data
humanitarian data ecosystem, 89 Data Protection Handbook, 106 digital cartographies, 176 Digital Humanitarian Network, 50, 57 disaster preparedness, 238 drones, 1, 89, 93, 94, 95, 99, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 152 Dutch East India Company, 21 engagement
non-governmental organisations (NGOs), 229, 240 ethics, 35, 78, 89, 90, 106, 130, 131, 132, 157, 211, 222 Euclidean geometry, 21, 24 Europe, 17, 29, 103, 120, 121, 125, 129, 132, 133, 143, 144, 146, 152, 172, 174 European Space Agency (ESA), 152 Facebook Connectivity Lab, 101 Fondation suisse de déminage, 104 forensic architecture, 168 forensic oceanography, 124 geodetic triangulation, 24 geographic information, 18 geographical information systems (GIS), 71 geospatial intelligence, 143 global positioning systems (GPS), 7, 34, 40, 167 gross domestic product (GDP), 68 humanitarian data exchange, 102, 228 humanitarian data revolution, 90 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, 102, 225 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), 10, 225 Humanitarian UAV Network, 94 Humanitarian UAV Network Code of Conduct, 106 indigenous territories, 29 information and communications technology (ICT), 186 information and communications technology for development (ICT4D), 97 information management, 90 International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), 144 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 92, 106, 144 Kazakhstan, Republic of, 94 maps
Earth Climate Change Global Map, 167 Four-Degree Interactive Map, 167 Gall-Peters projection, 24 Lambert’s cylindrical equal-area projection, 24 market humanitarianism, 91 Médecins sans frontières (MSF), 225 mediation, 4, 46, 47, 48, 51, 57, 76, 97, 101, 168, 175 migrant, 127, 129, 131, 133, 143, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 153, 155, 156, 173, 211
migration, 10, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 130, 131, 143, 144, 148, 156, 157, 164, 173, 247 Missing Maps Project, 225 Missing Migrants Project, 147, 153 natural disasters, 42, 152 Nightingale, Florence, 90 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 144 Open Data Charter, the, 205 OpenStreetMap (OSM), 2, 41, 42, 50, 53, 58, 71, 223, 224, 225, 228, 229, 231, 232, 238, 239, 241, 242, 243, 247, 248 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 126, 209
parliamentary monitoring organisations (PMOs), 195 participatory mapping, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 48, 52, 101, 107, 228 planetary boundaries, 164 power, 1, 29, 34, 44, 67, 95, 97, 99, 107, 121, 123, 148, 157, 167, 174, 243
public–private partnerships, 91 refugees, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132, 172, 217, 219, 229
remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), 145, 152 security, 82, 99, 102, 103, 106, 123, 144, 165, 172, 174, 200 Short Message Service (SMS), 1 social media geographic information, 72 space, 17, 18, 30, 67, 68, 76, 78, 80, 82, 151, 165, 242, 244
State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS), 33 surveillance, 89, 95, 108, 124, 152, 156, 171, 174, 185, 186, 200, 201 technological determinism, 99 terror, 200
Migration Data Portal, 153 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 126, 131, 144, 220, 227 United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), 94, 103 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), 50 user-generated content, 40, 70, 71 volunteered geographic information (VGI), 3, 8, 40, 43, 53, 67, 70, 72, 73, 74, 82 World Food Programme (WFP), 92, 94, 103