Chapter
Published:
Quasi-Professionals in the Organisation of Transnational Crisis Mapping
Summary:
The recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated mobile information communications technologies (ICTs) has led to the creation of new and complex networks and relationships. The fastest growth and adoption of mobile technologies is now in the developing world and often among populations facing development and humanitarian challenges. The entrepreneurial utilization of technological advances in these populations, combined with dispersed online networks in the developed world, is shaping global governance and the response of international organizations and governments in various ways. In this chapter we explore the particular phenomenon of crisis mapping that has arisen in the past five years out of the confluence of various technological advances and its combination with populations facing crisis. Specifically, we seek to analyze how quasi-professional crisis mappers or “mapsters” are shaping humanitarian action as an evolving professional field.
- Published year: 2017
- Full version: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/professional-networks-in-transnational-governance/399BB8337EF686848ABCDC0FA200F6D2
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Page count: 357
- Language: Engelsk
- Pages: 203 - 216