Nordic Geospatial Blog –

Compelling ISW (Institute for the Study of War) video of the integrated, multi-scale (i.e. micro<>meso<>macro) use of structured and unstructured geospatial and WWW data to analyze the labyrinthine cultural, military and social forces which defined the various stages of the Libyan uprising and NATO response -

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/webcast/video-understanding-libyan-revolution-through-palantir

UPDATE 20111113
NASA GeoCam project – http://disastercam.blogspot.com/

Great tools for deciphering the torrent of #Twitter data -

http://gnip.com

http://www.geochirp.com/

http://trendsmap.com/

http://www.sat2twitter.com/

And a great UN effort to share pictures and their locations -

http://www.ansur.no/

& http://www.geo-pictures.eu/

Compelling TEDx talk by UK journalist Paul Lewis ( ) re: the citizen reporting and transparency paradigm shift which Twitter and allied social media tools have ushered-in -

…an equally focused and vivid 3 minute lightning talk by ESRI re: Social Media for Emergency Management #SMEM

And with great allusions to AirWolf and Yoda, a concise ‘state of the social mapping union’ TEDx Silicon Valley tour de force by one of the preeminent #SMEM and #CrisisMappers visionaries, Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier speaks at TEDx Silicon Valley 2011 from TEDx Silicon Valley on Vimeo.

Free ArcGIS.com resource for understanding the upcoming London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – http://www.london2012.com

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Lastly, interesting beta Silverlight map tool to note Twitter geo patterns and timeline -

http://apps.arcgis.com/hosted/OnePane/twittertimeline/index.html

UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development
http://www.un-gaid.org/

Visit Global Alliance for ICT and Development

Carnegie Mellon University Disaster Management Initiative in the Silicon Valley of California USA
http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/dmi/

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s memorial note -

Gov’t of Norway’s July 22nd Commission formed and report due Aug 10th 2012
http://www.norway-un.org/NorwayandUN/Selected_Topics/Peace_Efforts/22-July-Commission-lessons-are-important-to-improve-future-preparedness/

Interim resources…

International Center for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague
http://icct.nl/vervolg.php?h_id=6#EB2

EUROPOL’s Terrorism Situation and Trend Reports (TE-SAT) 2011
https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/te-sat2011.pdf

TE-SAT 2011
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report
2011 – 45 pp. 21 x 29,7 cm
ISBN Number:978-92-95018-86-0
ISSN Number: 1830-9712
DOI: 10.2813/14705

Iconic Iconoclast…

Great angles..

Nike Vapen Sessions Episode 2 from Nike 6.0 on Vimeo.

Nike Vapen Sessions Episode 1 from Nike 6.0 on Vimeo.

along with snow, winter also means NW swells and big shout out to the Hana ‘ohana …

Leave A Message Trailer from Nike 6.0 on Vimeo.

Go to http://www.hifldwg.org/ for more info.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Department – Intelligence Led Policing from San Diego County Sheriff on Vimeo.

Go to http://vimeo.com/29733374 for more information

Go to http://www.unglobalpulse.org/ for more info.

UPDATE 20110822
Point and counterpoint in the US context – @MotherJones compiles a DoJ database of counterterrorism cases over the last ten years -

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/terror-trials-numbers

UPDATE 20110803
Hero couple rescued dozens from #Utoya
http://news.yahoo.com/lesbian-couple-saved-40-kids-norway-050733662.html

UPDATE 20110727
‘Sluggish’ Norwegian police criticized and protected by insular culture
http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-culture-shields-sluggish-norway-police-critics-151445646.html

UPDATE 20110726

Fascinating article in NYTimes about unarmed Norwegian Police

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/world/europe/26police.html

And a quote that seems idyllic and possibly naive to Norwegian Americans -

“I would prefer to live in a society where police normally work unarmed,” said Johannes Knutsson, a professor of police research at the Norwegian Police University College.

Though graphic, the above aerial image from news helicopters reinforces the fact that the police, SWAT and counter-terrorism first responders were woefully unprepared and slow in their response. Their use of an overloaded boat in a country that daily flies thousands of oil workers via jet helicopters to offshore oil rigs will surely be a lesson learned in the forthcoming after action reports and inquiries – per the NYTimes article above -

” It took police SWAT units more than an hour to reach the camp, on Utoya Island, after reports of the shooting came in. Officers had to drive to the shore across from the site of the shooting attack, and use boats to get to the island. A police helicopter was unable to get off the ground; news crews that reached the island by air could only watch as the gunman continued the massacre. ”

Tragic loss of the one onsite first responder/police officer ( Trond Berntsen ), who was unarmed and was the step-brother of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018459/Norway-shooting-Crown-Princesss-step-brother-Trond-Berntsen-killed-Anders-Behring-Breivik.html

Here she is with the Prince at the UNDP Arendal center for environmental analysis -

UPDATE 20110727
https://plus.google.com/110668479729372555286/posts

Tragic

Excellent resource for live updates via UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8655175/Oslo-explosion-live-coverage.html

Context/History
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8655451/History-of-Islamic-militant-attacks-in-Europe.html

Likely usual suspects
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-europe-groups-idUSTRE76L3O920110722

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_explosion

From the Economist – http://www.economist.com/node/17663585

http://www.gapminder.org/

Get data – http://www.gapminder.org/data/

World Bank data and Google Motion Charts
http://data.worldbank.org/developers/apps/google-public-data

http://www.fig.net/jbgis/

Dowload 6 mb PDF here – http://www.fig.net/jbgis/publications/jbgis_booklet_2010.pdf

Lessons from H1N1
http://www.emergencymgmt.com/health/Lessons-H1N1-Pandemic.html

2008 Lyon, France – WHO IHR Report on Cities and Public Health Crises
http://www.who.int/ihr/lyon/FRWHO_HSE_IHR_LYON_2009.5.pdf

2010 FIFA South Africa HealthMap
http://www.healthmap.org/fifa/

Hans Rosling @ TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html