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January Issue No. 63  
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TIDES Ebola Daily News Digest    


The USG Intelligence Community and Texas State University prepare and share the latest information and resources on the Ebola epidemic. 

Click here to read the Ebola Daily News Digest

Upcoming Events in HA/DR and Development ! 


Humanitarian Technology: Science, Systems and Global Impact
 
When: 12-14 May 2015
Where: Boston, MA
 
This conference will explore emerging technologies related to humanitarian assistance.
 
Click here for more information.
2015 SOFIC (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference)
  
When: 19-21 May 2015
Where: Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL
 
The event will explore current and future challenges and how to best support our Special Operations Forces (SOF) around the globe. *TIDES will have a booth at the display.
 
 Click here for more information.
9th Annual TIDES Technology Field Demo
 
When: 6-9 Oct. 2015
Where: National Defense University, Washington, DC
 

If you are interested in exhibiting email [email protected] 

Quick Links
New Publications 
for all the latest publications!
Greetings! 
 
Happy New Year! We are requesting help from the Network in identifying organizations that are similar in focus to STAR-TIDES that we could be in touch with to combine events and efforts of all kinds. Please contact [email protected] with your ideas!

Become a Member of our NEW LinkedIn Group

We want to hear what you've got to say! Join our new LinkedIn group to discuss issues related to disaster relief, emergency management and civil-military affairs. Click here to join and enjoy the opportunity to network with others.
 The Defense Entrepreneurs Forum

Our Star-Tides network member Jesse Levin, from Team Rubicon and Tactivate.com, offers a very interesting perspective of the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum - an independent, not-for-profit group of emerging defense leaders that strive to solve national security problems from the bottom-up by exposing defense professionals to the techniques and experiences of civilian innovators and social entrepreneurs:

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United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations Baseline Study 

As a follow-up to the work we are doing regarding innovative technological support in UN Peacekeeping Operations (UN PKO), we would like to thank members of the STAR-TIDES network and others for contributing to the UNDPKO Baseline Study Research.  

We were interested in hearing from members of our network that have worked with, or been a member of a UN PKO operation in the field.  

We appreciated comments and contributions to the baseline study and will share the report once there is a final draft.  

The report will be used at a conference we will be hosting here at the National Defense University in February with the United Nations and various DOD entities.

Thank you for your continued support! 

TIDES Founder, Dr. Linton Wells addressed members of the African Diaspora at the African Union Mission in Washington D.C. 

On December 2nd, TIDES' Founder Dr. Linton Wells spoke at the African Union Mission in Washington D.C. in regards to the " Importance of the West Africa Diaspora in the Fight against Ebola".
Dr. Wells stressed the importance of considering vehicles that members of the diaspora can contribute directly such as: Improving the situation on the ground for local populations via the use of Open-source, crowd-sourced information, especially based on maps, images and video. Dr. Wells encouraged members of the diaspora to join the Volunteer Technical Community and sited examples such as: Crisismappers, Stand-by Task Force, Digital Humanitarians, Humanitarian Data Exchanges and via Ebola IM/GIS( Instant Messaging/Geo-spatial Information Systems) on Skype and OpenStreetMap.
 
Please refer all questions to [email protected]

Call for JIFX Experiment Proposals

The Naval Postgraduate School's Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) program is now accepting Experiment Proposals for their February event. Interested parties are encouraged to visit the JIFX website to review the event's Request for Information (RFI) document and submit an Experiment Proposal. Applications will be accepted that relate to any of the RFI areas of interest which include:

  • Software solutions that leverage social media for situational awareness and operational decision making
  • Maritime domain awareness including sensing and command and control solutions
  • Technologies Relating to Pandemic Response/Post-Disaster Public Health (See Special Interest RFI)

Please refer all questions to [email protected]