Ukraine has been called the TikTok War. In this episode JJ explores how HALO uses social media, geographic information systems and unmanned arial vehicles to plot battles and bombs to help locate and prioritise clearance.Our Libyan colleague Hasam talks about how he pioneered the use of Facebook to map mine contamination in his home country, using ‘landmine’ and ‘projectile’ as keywords and zooming in on satellite images to geolocate dangerous remnants of war. Capability officer Andro Mathewson then explains how he developed Hasam’s idea in the early days of Putin’s invasion to create a map of Ukraine that shows contamination based on Twitter and Telegram posts and is updated daily by a team of social media 'detectives'. Meanwhile, drones specialist Katherine James joins from Cuito Cuanavale in Angola, where her use of drones on minefields also identifies watering holes for wildlife... as well as capturing a group of suspicious young men with elephant tusks in a canoe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.