SSHRC Doctoral Award

Cross posted with The Citizen Lab

The Citizen Lab is pleased to announce the Doctoral Award received by Citizen Lab Doctoral Fellow Jennie Phillips from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Phillips’ proposal introduces the concept of Volunteer Technical Communities (VTCs) that, similar to online communities like Wikipedia, are global networks skilled in areas including information technology, emergency management (EM), mapping and communications that congregate during emergencies to facilitate response. Yet, she highlights, the lack of awareness combined with issues of validity, reliability and liability, and the fluid nature of community membership, leads to minimal VTC integration into official emergency response.

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Noting the emergent and distributed nature of digital volunteerism, she proposes just-in-time mobile training to deliver the course. This course will be tested for its ability to facilitate VTC uptake in emergencies. She concludes with the following research question to guide the study: What is the efficiency and effectiveness of VTC accreditation training as a means to facilitate integration into official emergency response channels?

For the full SSHRC award list, see here.