Shaping the future: Our strategy for research and innovation in humanitarian response.
Almost three years ago, Trilateral Research and the Global Disaster Preparedness Centre began their journey together to investigate the value and use of social media analysis tools for preparedness and disaster risk reduction purposes. That initial study demonstrated that there was indeed a desire on behalf of many Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies (RCRC) to engage with social media analysis tools, yet they faced both internal barriers as well as technological barriers in optimising existing tools to meet their needs.
Such barriers ranged from lack of resources and skills, to the tools being overly complex, expensive and unable to function fully on limited bandwidth. In response, Trilateral Research and the Global Disaster Preparedness Centre sought to extend the study to gathering user requirements from representatives working with social media across National Societies in order to ascertain what functionalities would be of use and complementary to their ongoing efforts. Such efforts resulted in the present, PREP1, being supported.
As this blog charts, researchers from Trilateral Research, representatives from the Global Disaster Preparedness Centre, and representatives from across the RCRC network, have worked together to develop an understanding of how/when social media is used, and, accordingly what features ought to be included in a future tool. Take a look at our previous post here.
To share our findings further afield, Trilateral Research are involved in multiple dissemination and communication activities:
Lastly, we are in the process of finalising a Journal article to summarise the core findings of the study in an open access journal.
Those involved in the study are committed to realising the true potential of PREP1. As time progresses, data scientists and researchers at Trilateral Research have begun the necessary steps to begin to build PREP1. They will now look to gathering additional funds, to continue to build, test and roll-out the tool to National Societies.
If you are interested in finding out more about our efforts, please contact the project manager – Dr. Hayley Watson – Practice Manager at Trilateral Research: hayley.watson@trilateralresearch.com
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