CrisisCamp Europe - May 28-29, 2011
Chris Foote (Spike)
http://crisiscampeurope.eventbrite.com/
"Since 2009, the European community have been working to build a volunteer technology community focused working to support local emergency response authorities and international humanitarian aid communities. These communities host open forums called CrisisCamps where communities can dialogue as well as create prototype projects.
CrisisCamp Europe is the first CrisisCamp event to encourage the connectivity between European volunteer technology communities, humanitarian relief organizations, private sector companies, academia and volunteers of all skills - including computer programmers.
CrisisCamp Europe will provide an opportunity for the community to select representatives to attend the 2nd International CrisisCongress which will be held in early September in Silicon Valley in the United States. This trip will be supported by travel grant from CrisisCommons.
During CrisisCamp Europe, discussions on open source technologies, the use of crisis data and crisis mapping and other topics will be discussed.
On Saturday, members of the Missing Persons Community of Interest will hold its first Data Summit on Saturday, May 28, 2011 in Paris, France to bring together technical experts, NGOs, relief agencies and other organizations to discuss lessons learned regarding missing persons data - both short term as well as long term refugee data collection, sharing, security and privacy challenges.
The goal of the Missing Persons Community of Interest is to provide an open roundtable to foster dialogue, education, training, relationship building, policy and community technical standards development to accelerate the incorporation of lessons learned, emerging technologies and community input to improve and innovate how and under what conditions missing persons information is collected, managed, and acted upon.
This roundtable will provide input to develop a white paper
to provide crisis management, humanitarian relief and global
development agencies with a series of recommendations from the
community on leveraging existing and emerging technologies
continue to work through policy and technical challenges
surrounding missing persons data. "
Spike
Chris Foote (Spike)
Here > https://sites.google.com/site/eucrisiscampmay2011/
So sorry - I must have taken leave of my senses for a moment there
Spike