Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Additional volunteers needed for CrisisTracker evaluation (now until Sep 14)

[Spike (Chris Foote)]

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Subject:	[CrisisMappers] Additional volunteers needed for CrisisTracker evaluation (now until Sep 14)
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Jakob Rogstadius <jakob.ro...@gmail.com>
Reply-To:	crisis...@googlegroups.com
To:	crisis...@googlegroups.com

Since Friday last week and until Friday this week, a new platform for crowd-curation of social media during mass disaster is deployed to track live reports from the civil war in Syria. The platform, called CrisisTracker, every day collects hundreds of thousands of tweets from the region and groups these into clusters of similar reports to help avoid information overload.

This deployment is a very important step in taking the platform from a controlled development environment and adapting it for real-world large-scale use during actual crisis. Both the way the platform is used and the quality of the curated data are  being monitored by us and by a number of experienced disaster response experts from organizations around the world (including OCHA, the Stand-By Task Force and IBM) to understand under what conditions the platform will be useful in future crises and disasters.

Several hard-working volunteers are already doing a great job at collaboratively organizing the reports into a 4W (who-where-what-when) database. However, we need more people who can help share the workload and help make this evaluation as realistic as possible.

If you have some time to spare until Friday, please start by watching a short video introduction to familiarize yourself  with the system from a analyst's and volunteer's perspective. All information regarding volunteering is available in a step-by-step volunteer guide.

You can volunteer for as little or as much time as you want, but it would be extremely helpful if you can find time to curate at least five stories per day until Friday this week to help out in the evaluation.

In case you have any questions, please contact me directly via email (ja...@m-iti.org) or Skype (jakob.rogstadius).

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