I have more questions raised than answered but for the time a quick summary:
- Reservists (volunteer + conscript) are the new TDF (sort of)
- Conscripted soldiers to work w/ civil defense systems on criss response, disaster relief, security control, combat engineering...
A layered approach to what appears to be the result of two-year discussion among #natsec and military circles.
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(1/) #OTD in 2009, a typhoon began to flood Southern Taiwan, and it turned out to be the deadliest typhoon in decades. I was part of the core volunteer team that supported govt in a major crisis, and deployed a digital response force per invitation.
(2/) Our effort was well documented in local studies, and it was probably a first glimpse into what a volunteering task force could achieve wrt digital respone in a major crisis. What we did can be basically summarized into these points...
(3/) - Parsing govt websites for relevant data
- Providing integrated data stream to the local media, TV channels and major internet companies with solid support of an editorial team
- Providing authenticated info to support situational awarenss to the public via social media
(1/) I didn't want to augment her msg but I see some observers failed to see the obvious. Short thread.
She's mobilzing a massive crowd to have an interest on #Taiwan, and providing a path to fulfill their aggresions by using Baidu Map as a crowdsourced data platform (for now).
(2/) Data uploaded by users, in this case, mostly POI (point of interests) and images of TW, are not useable for map data production. That's why we should see this as a novel campaign abt rapid mobilization on a another different dimension—yes, "civilian actions" engaged.
(3/) Internet traffic generated by this type of campaign might be confined within the "Chinese internet" as you can see that it has crashed their own site several times already, but you are not sure when [...]