New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks -- looks at innovation in the use of technology along the timeline of crisis response, from emergency preparedness and alerts to recovery and rebuilding.
It profiles organizations whose work is advancing the frontlines of innovation, offers an overview of international efforts to increase sophistication in the use of IT and social networks during emergencies, and provides recommendations for how governments, aid groups, and international organizations can leverage this innovation to improve community resilience.
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RFDump is a backend GPL tool to directly interoperate with any RFID ISO-Reader to make the contents stored on RFID tags accessible. This makes the following types of audits possible:
* Test robustness of data-structures on the reader and the backend-application
* Proof-of-concept manipulations of RFID tag contents
* Clone / copy & paste User-Data stored on RFID tags
* Audit tag-security features
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply. This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address. Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF or BMP format. The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour.
"The textbooks are outdated, as far as I'm concerned, and there's no reason why our schools should have our students lug around these antiquated and heavy and expensive textbooks" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger 3 June 2009
OCR Terminal is a free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and PDFs into editable and text searchable documents.
ALT-J, Volume 17, Issue 1 March 2009, 33-47. This case study describes the use of a synchronous communication application (MSN Messenger) in a large academic computing environment. (peer support c.f. Twitter)
J. Kietzmann, und H. Tsang. Proceedings of the 15th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, Seite 14:1--14:5. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)
T. Schummer, S. Lukosch, und R. Slagter. Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, 11th International Workshop, CRIWG 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciecne 3706, Seite 73-88. Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, (2005)