Towards a truthful world wide web from a humanitarian perspective

Economy grows as more and more people join its core echelons. People are the most important economic resources at all times. The Web, being humanity's largest source of information and interaction, probably has the most technological potential to get people into mainstream. It can serve as a co...

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Published in2015 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) pp. 137 - 143
Main Authors Pendyala, Vishnu S., Figueira, Silvia
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2015
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Decision support systems
Logic
Machine Learning
Truth
World Wide Web
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Summary:Economy grows as more and more people join its core echelons. People are the most important economic resources at all times. The Web, being humanity's largest source of information and interaction, probably has the most technological potential to get people into mainstream. It can serve as a conduit of humanitarian services to the underprivileged and presents a huge opportunity to meet humanitarian challenges. In this paper, we discuss the role that a truthful World Wide Web can play in achieving humanitarian goals. We survey what is currently available and discuss some of our own ideas on making the Web more robust and truthful in order to meet the humanitarian challenge.
DOI:10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343966