Information diffusion in complex emergencies

Information diffusion in complex emergencies: A model-based evaluation of information sharing strategies

Meijering, Jasper (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)

Warnier, Martijn (mentor)
Comes, M. (graduation committee)
Van den Homberg, Marc (graduation committee)
van de Walle, B.A. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Engineering and Policy Analysis

Master project report

2019-02-26

In an emergency, humanitarian organisations share information to prevent redundant data collection and avoid gaps and overlap in the relief activities that they undertake. An analysis of hygiene kit distribution in the Bangladesh-Myanmar displacement crisis and consultation of both literature and humanitarian professionals led to the construction of a model on information diffusion in complex emergencies. This model proved to be able to evaluate strategies that have a level of complexity that could not be apprehended by existing models. Experimentation with this model leads to the conclusion that a locally sourced team, with an outward focused organisation that produces near real-time information products, is most effective in diffusing information.

Information diffusion
Information sharing
Complex emergencies
agent based modelling

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Student theses

master thesis

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