CrisisCamp Conf Call Notes; New Camp Planned for Saturday; Conf Call Tomorrow
Heather Blanchard
Haiti Disaster Relief Assistance
January 13, 2010
Participants
GISCorps
World Bank
State College of Pennsylvania
ASEAN
Google
Sahana
GeoCommons
Fortius One
CrisisCamp
Hands on Disaster
Yahoo!
Emericus
ESRI
National Public Radio
University of Colordao
Mobile Design
EMPOWER
Institute of Emergency Preparedness
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Toro from the World Bank opened with an operational overview.
Who are we?
-Provide effort to describe this commons effort and build a central
coordination point.
Email list serv managed by Random Hacks of Kindness (haiti-
quak...@rhok.org)
CrisisCommons Wiki up and running (http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/
index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake)
CrisisCommons Website being reworked
Looking into group chat opportunities
Geospatial Efforts:
Open Street Map: Editing data for a base map. Making geospatial data
available. Conducting Yahoo! map tracing.
Google: Will have new geospatial data in the next 12/24 hours.
Providing KML/MapMaker to the UN agencies.
ESRI: Providing assistance, software and imagery via web site
GISCorps: 1,700 technical volunteers who can assist in geospatial
projects. 21 volunteers can speak/write French.
GeoCommons: Open Street Map Wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/
WikiProject_Haiti) is up as well as the Crisis Commons Wiki (http://
crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake)
Family Reunification:
Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina; People Finder (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_PeopleFinder_Project) is a way to
assist
International Red Cross the lead on reunification - Family LInks
system (http://www.icrc.org/familylinks)
Unification systems (there will be multiple) do not share data,
connect or have common data elements
People Finder Interchange Format: http://zesty.ca/pfif/
Google interested in best way to point people (re: search) who are
looking for loved ones
Disaster Resource Systems
- Sahana making a public instance of their software available to the
public
- USAR teams will be using Sahana
Relief Web has UN OCHA data, look at this resource:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm
Relief Web Map Center - (http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/
AHAA-7ZP2TK?OpenDocument)
Review/revision opportunity of the Hurricane Information Center Ning
(http://gustav08.ning.com/). NPR looking for assistance enhance as a
resource
Recommended for NGOs to have a domain/Haiti
Hands on Disaster Response (http://hodr.org/) deploying and will be
conducting assessments
GeoChat: geochat.instedd.org
Language Challenges
-Paul Berger highlighted that language will be a challenge; How can we
begin to look at resources to assist?
-GISCorps (http://giscorps.org/) offered that they have 21 GIS
volunteers who speak French.
-Louisiana State University has language assistance in French/Creole.
-Motion Point in Florida may also be a partner.
Connecting to Medical Response
-Would be helpful to learn where medical facilities will be for
mapping purposes.
-South Alabama has a Medical Disaster Response Network.
-Offer from childrens doctor to engage medical NGOs on technology
needs
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Evening Meet Up in Virginia
Participants
Insteed
Development Seed
National Defense University
Fortius One
GeoCommons
CrisisCamp
Host Emergency CrisisCamps in NY, DC and CA
There is a proposal to create CrisisCamps in cities where there is
interest in bringing together technologists, developers, usability
experts and communications (non-technical) volunteers to work on
relief projects. These will be free and open to anyone who wants to
participate.
To attend DC’s CrisisCamp Haiti this Saturday sign up here:
http://crisiscamphaitiwdc.eventbrite.com/
NYC and CA eventbrite to be announced today.
Project Proposals for CrisisCamp Haiti
Base layer map for Port Au Prince: This project would create a new
collection of imagery and a new base map for NGOs and relief agencies.
Post available imagery to share with the public for open source
applications.
Family locator systems: Uniting efforts of interested technologists,
developers and communications experts to provide technical
assistance.
Tech Volunteer Skill Matrix/Volunteers: Create a role of volunteer as
well as
Managing News Aggregator: Provide content channel management to
coordinate data feeds
Defining the Collective: Create what we are and conceptualize mission
space. Coordinate and post historical timeline/archive for the
CrisisCamp efforts.
Don't forget - tomorrow's call is at 5PM EST! See below
Participant joining details
International direct dial-in number +1 617 614.2702
US Dial-in number 1 866 800.8648
Passcode: 634 457 61