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cord-021175-0ikkl3hk	Wilson, Christopher	The new informatics of pandemic response: humanitarian technology, efficiency, and the subtle retreat of national agency	2018-05-30		.txt	text/plain	9219	371	26	This model distinguishes between the use of digital communication tools for diagnostic, risk communication, and coordination activities and highlights how the influx of novel actors and tendencies towards digital and operational convergence risks focusing humanitarian action and decision-making outside national authorities' spheres of influence in pandemic response. Digital communications in Fast and Waugaman's case studies are leveraged to determine the way in which Ebola was spreading and the nature of risks posed by the pandemic, in order to coordinate activity among different types of response actors, including national authorities, international humanitarian aid workers and front-line health care providers, and in order to communicate with the general public regarding health risks and appropriate behavior to mitigate those risks. Firstly, social media and big data introduce promising new sources of information on which to base decision-making in pandemic response, but for whose meaningful use humanitarian organizations tend to lack the institutional and technical capacity, and national authorities even more so (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 2011; Odugleh-Kolev 2014; Smith 2015; Read et al.	./cache/cord-021175-0ikkl3hk.txt	./txt/cord-021175-0ikkl3hk.txt