Humanitarianism 2.0

人道主义2.0源自PI James Thompson在AHRC资助的“代替战争”项目上的工作，该项目目前正在完成后续拨款，为战争和灾区的艺术家创建了一个在线平台。“代替战争”的前提是，当地对战争的艺术反应为寻求通过国际艺术应对危机的人们提供了宝贵而鼓舞人心的资源。开发中的新平台扩展了这一点，提供了一种共享、存档和展示专业知识的方法。H20计划以这项工作为基础，将其扩展到探索更广泛的社交媒体创新，将其应用于动荡、灾难或战争的情况。虽然牢固地建立在艺术和文化实践的基础上，但它现在扩大了与一系列不同的社会和文化实践的联系，这些实践在过去五年中作为对危机的新形式的现在时反应而出现。例如：1；Facebook参与阿拉伯之春——始于突尼斯并蔓延到整个地区，活动人士、艺术家和公民记者利用社交媒体的力量记录、联系和促进对旧政权的反对，报道并代表了他们所在地区的变化。支持绘制海地地震地图的文本和推特——2010年地震发生后不久，短信技术和推特被用于报告当地情况和地图需求，最终被联合国救灾协调当局采纳。哥伦比亚麦德林市的数位化：自2006年起，麦德林市政府开始实施一项雄心勃勃的城市数位化计划，以因应战后与毒品相关的暴力。Twitter和2011年英国骚乱——围绕着社交媒体在引发、记录和有时对抗2011年夏天骚乱中所扮演角色的争议。H20旨在通过提供一个论坛，使web 2.0技术的先驱能够与人道主义救援专家进行富有成效的对话，从而将这些不同但相关的倡议联系起来并从中学习。H20将汇集一个跨学科团队，包括人道主义、电子研究和互动技术方面的专家以及非高等教育专业组织来开发该项目。这一群体中的许多人已经率先利用社交媒体应对动荡局势，他们随后将探索新形式的社交、互动和用户主导技术应用于人道主义危机局势时所产生的机会、潜力和问题。

Humanitarianism 2.0 emerges from PI James Thompson's work on the AHRC funded 'In Place of War' project, which is currently completing a follow on grant creating an online platform for artists in war and disaster zones. The premise of 'In Place of War' was that local artistic response to war provides a valuable and inspirational resource to people seeking to respond to crisis through the arts internationally. The new platform in development extends this to provide a means for that expertise to be shared, archived and exhibited.The H20 initiative builds on this work, expanding it to explore a much wider range of innovations in social media applied to situations of upheaval, disaster or war. While firmly based within the arts and cultural practice, it now broadens the remit to connect with a range of different social and cultural practices that have emerged in the last five years as new forms of present tense responses to crisis. For example: 1. Facebook involvement in the Arab Spring - starting in Tunisia and spreading across the region, activists, artists and citizen journalists have reported on and represented the changes within their region using the power of social media to document, link and promote opposition to the old regimes.2. Texts and tweets that supported the mapping of the Haiti earthquake - soon after the 2010 earthquake SMS technology and tweets were used to report on local situations and map needs, eventually being picked up by UN disaster relief coordination authorities.3. The digitisation of the Colombian city of Medellin - since 2006 the city authorities in Medellin have embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise their city as a response to the post-war and drug related violence.4. Twitter and the UK 2011 riots - controversies surrounded the role of social media in both provoking, recording and at times combatting the unrest in the summer of 2011.H20 seeks to link and learn from these diverse but related initiatives by providing a forum through which pioneers of web 2.0 technologies can be brought into productive dialogue with experts in humanitarian relief. H20 will bring together an interdisciplinary team - experts in humanitarianism, e-research, and interactive technologies as well as non-HE professional organisations to develop the project. This group, many of whom have already pioneered social media responses to situations of unrest, will then explore the opportunities, potentials and questions that arise when new forms of social, interactive and user-led technologies are applied to situations of humanitarian crisis.