CrisisCampDC Meet Up Notes

[Heather Blanchard]

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CrisisCamp DC Meetup Recap
August 23, 2009 at 12:24 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit

Thanks for @bgreenberg @ajturner @joelogon @noeldickover
@HunterWhitney @seangorman for attending today! So much discussion on
a million topics, but we did by the end were able to bucket a few
priorities.

Foster the development of CrisisCommons to support the movement
Help all of our friends hosting future CrisisCamps (CCNYC, CCWest and
CCUK)
These two tasks are filled with questions and opportunities which kept
the gang talking for over two hours today.

1) Foster the development of CrisisCommons to support the movement

Creation of a CrisisCommons Charter (via www.crisiscommons.org –
WikiCollaboration)

CrisisCommons construct is suggested to be a two pronged approach –
skilled technologists and of course, those who are not

CrisisCommons themes would include concepts of community, investment
vs. charity/donations/probono, neutrality, trusted, aggregation

CrisisCommon founding principles could include such ideas as “all
information must be free,” “open access,” “open source”

CrisisCommons bottomline: Empowering global citizens to use technology
to save lives

CrisisCommons goverance could include approaches similar to Wikipedia
or Creative Commons

CrisisCommons could be a place, a think tank, where proactive projects
(ex. USAID/GeoCommons project) are launched or during crisis when
competing parties come together for the common good

Specific Tasks:

We mean what we say – Creating the CrisisCommons Charter
(@poplifegirl will begin the charter; @ajturner will post to
www.crisiscommons.org). This charter will be a living and breathing
document, as Noel says, “perpetually in beta.” This will be the place
to scope and describe in detail the mission, vision and guiding
principles behind the Commons.

Tell the CrisisCamp story and why there is a need for a Commons –
@hunterwhitney will work on pulling the story of CrisisCampDC and its
impact since (Camp Roberts, new camps, projects, ect)

CrisisCamp 411: (1) CCWest – help Kristin Hogan to connect with
interested parties (2) @poplifegirl will go to CCNYC organizational
meetup on Sept 12 in NYC (3) @ajturner and @poplifegirl will offer to
CCUK to work with them to host a CrisisCamp Meetup on September 26 –
with an eye to plan a CCUK October 22 or November 28/29. However,
would be helpful to have CCUK before the Hackathon.

Spending the Fall with CrisisCommons: Create movement through all of
the existing activities in the fall (CCWest, CCNYC, Crisis Mapping
Conference (Cleveland), Africa/Uganda Conference, Camp Roberts and the
Hackathon. All events will be between mid-October to the end of
November. Action: Meet with the World Bank to provide listing of
events

September 8th CrisisCommons Roundtable: CrisisCommons would like to
bring together all of the leaders of the fall events (related to CC or
not) with key supports like industry and the World Bank to discuss how
to maximize events to provide feedback into the Commons. Proposed to
do this meeting on September 8th (around Gov 2.0 Conference)

September 9th CrisisIgnite Happy Hour: Maximizing the Gov 2.0
Conference and folks in town CrisisCommons could host CrisisIgnite
Happy Hour to cultivate further interest in Camps and the development
of the Commons. The HH could have 5 Ignite-style presentations.

CrisisCampDC #1 AfterAction – Hackathon: During the this session is
where industry discussed their lessons learned from utilizing
technology assets and technical expertise during times of crisis.
Ideas included (see this spreadsheet) family/friends connector
systems, common terminology/standards (even with industry), Cap Feed
Generator, Imagery Tools, Trend Analysis on Incidents and other
technical applications. Opportunity: As this project moves forward,
the Commons could work with the camps, NGOs and other organizations to
identify priority technical resources which the Hackathon could
provide to Commons community.

CrisisCampDC #2 AfterAction – NonTraditional Actors as Sensors: Knight
News Challenge The idea was the use of iReporting by non-traditional
actors such as humanitarian aid workers and citizens to be able to
provide technical ability to report information to a free and open
internet, empower local crowd sourcing techniques and technical
aggregation tools. Opportunity: The Knight Foundation is hosting their
annual News Challenge where members of CrisisCommons could apply to
create a project.