definition for: #Humanitarianism20

Humanitarianism 2.0 (H20)The H20 initiative explores a wide range of innovations in social media applied to situations of upheaval, disaster or war. A diversity of practices have emerged in the last five years that have permitted new forms of present tense responses to crisis ? from Facebook involvement in the Arab Spring, to texts and tweets that supported the mapping of the Haiti earthquake, to the digitisation of the Colombian city of Medell?n, to controversies about the relation between twitter and the UK 2011 riots. 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 who have already pioneered responses to situations of unrest, to explore the opportunities and questions that arise when new forms of social, interactive and user-led technologies are applied to situations of humanitarian crisis.