mañana sabado 5 : "CrisisCommons Conference Calls".
luishernando
Saludos amigas y amigos
Supongo que ya estarán enterados, pero en caso de que o, les comento
que mañana será una de las "CrisisCommons Conference Calls".
Abajo les dejo la información.
Para poder conectarse a la llamada se puede usar un número teléfono
local. En [1] encuentran los números de cada ciudad que están
habilitados.
Europe, South America, Africa and North America at 16:00 UTC (7PM
Nairobi/5PM Geneva/1PM Santiago/11AM NYC/8AM San Francisco)
[1] http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Telephone_Bridge
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From: Heather Blanchard <heat...@crisiscommons.org>
Date: 26 feb, 10:38
Subject: Bits and Bytes: CrisisCamp NZ, Libya Assistance, CC Incident
Mgt Planning, Skype Chat Groups, CrisisCongress, Monthly Commons
Conference Calls
To: CrisisCommons
Monthly All Hands CrisisCommons Conference Calls - First Saturday of
Each Month (One call for Americas/Africa/Europe and Second Call for
Asia Pacific)
The first Saturday of each month will begin our monthly CrisisCommons
conference call. This call will take place on the first Saturday of
the calendar month for Europe, South America, Africa and North America
at 16:00 UTC (7PM Nairobi/5PM Geneva/1PM Santiago/11AM NYC/8AM San
Francisco). We will have a call for Asia Pacific region on Saturday at
11:00 UTC (11AM Sydney on Saturday - 7PM EST in NYC on Friday). If you
would like to dial in and your country is not represented in this
local dial in number here, please let us know:http://
wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Telephone_Bridge Please let me know if I
got the times right.
CrisisCampNZ
We will be conducting an after action review of CrisisCampNZ, like we
do for all of our responses, in the coming weeks. This is a great
opportunity for the writers and researchers in the community to come
together to build a timeline and share the story of how CrisisCampNZ
was created, what were the victories and what were the challenges of
the all-volunteer response. As you know, after action reporting is
critical to our community so we can learn and be better for next time.
Chad will be leading up hot wash activities in the coming weeks and we
want to help him out with a strong team of folks who can dig deep into
the thousands of skype messages, online discussions and outputs of the
effort. We also want to provide Ushahidi with technical user feedback
on their platform. There have been some fantastic efforts with this
response and we want to be sure to capture everyone who was involved
to highlight their successes. Let us know if you are interested in
participating.
If you haven't been keeping up with all the great efforts in the New
Zealand response, check out the update blog here:http://
crisiscommons.org/blog/2011/02/24/how-the-eq-org-nz-site-came-...
Libya Assistance Request
We have received a request for assistance to Libya from a volunteer
outside of the area who is working with people on the ground. I wanted
to share with you this request.
> My friends at Google Crisis Center advised me to get in touch with you.
> I am one of the contact points for the young people of Benghazi who have succeeded, against all odds, to rebuild some Internet connection and are sharing what is happening there.
> It is obvious that a humanitarian crisis of MAJOR proportions is developing across the entire country.
> Could we talk soon, so that I can explain what the main issues are right now and see if we can collaborate to help them?
This morning the ICRC began its process of deliberation of its role in
supporting relief efforts and have sent two emergency teams to nearby
countries and are working with the Tunisian and Egyptian Red Crescent
Societies.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/26/c_13750912.htm
We would like for the community here to discuss what would be the most
appropriate response to this request. To be clear, CrisisCommons does
not support activities like election monitoring or political activism
of any kind. These are the kinds of events which begin as activism but
slide into the need for relief.
CrisisCommons Incident Management Plan & Protocols
We would like for the group to discuss the above request regarding
Libya. We will not make a decision on this request until there is
discussion in this forum. This will begin a new process of discussion
before any "CrisisCommons" action and intervention for support to
ensure that community input is provided before volunteer support is
solicited and CrisisCommons engagement is created. This will also
begin the development of our own incident management planning and
processes as a community. A workgroup team will be created to cull
lessons learned from all of the past disasters we have participated in
as a community and will provide recommendations for how we, as a
community, will respond in the future to ensure the incorporation of
lessons learned, community input and crisis management best practices
while balancing the need for agility and innovation in a space where
people can take known risks.
This process will be complete 90 days from today. This will be a
living document which will be updated after every disaster that we as
a community will respond to. If you would like to be part of the
project team to support the development of our incident management
core team, please let us know.
Skype-tastic
I think that we have now proven the utility of Skype for the community
during the CrisisCampNZ response. The Skype channel has been the
center coordination point and is really helpful for people to pop in
and out of discussions without wading through millions of emails. We
have now launched an open forum for CrisisCommons on Skype. I gander
most of the discussions will take place there but we will use the
Google Group for more formalized announcements and sharing of emails.
For the everyday discussions and event for notes for meetings, we can
use this tool. However, it will require folks to get on Skype. Email
heat...@crisiscommons.org to join this forum. We have also set up an
invitation only forum for CrisisCamp "City Leads" to coordinate. If
you have an active CrisisCamp (i.e. you are planning to create a new
camp this spring) we will be happy to add you to the chat.
2011 CrisisCongress
In April the Commons Core team (Founders and Workgroup Leads) will be
getting together in New Orleans to create a two year plan for
engagement, as part of that engagement will be how to create the next
two CrisisCongress events. Right now, we are leaning that this year
will again be in the US (for timing purposes) but we want to have
regional summits to create delegations (who will have their travel
paid for) to the Congress which may likely be in Silicon Valley or San
Francisco. In 2012, we would like to see if a country outside of the
US would want to host the Congress (similar to how OSM does their
conferences). We would like for folks to discuss options and
opportunities for the Congress. Ideally we would like to get back to
the CrisisCamp roots and for it to be a large barcamp with areas for
hacking, academic presentations, NGO collaboration and such. Ideally,
it would be great to have a place where people can be in a hotel or
they can camp out if they want. Regarding the timing, we may want to
have the Congress at the end of July or early August -- or at the
latest, November. We welcome your perspectives on dates, location,
event approach and how to make this more inclusive.
Heather's Notes
Just wanted to share with everyone that I have placed a notes section
and a schedule section on the Wiki so everyone has insights into my
meetings and schedules. I'll try to update as much as I can over the
course of supporting the Wilson Center. Of course it needs some
updating but wanted to share here:http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/
Heather%27s_Meetings and I'll be updating my travel schedule
here:http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Heather%27s_Scheduleand I have
set up a page for Ideas to just bounce around here for anyone who
would like to contribute to that directly:http://
wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Idea_box
Just a reminder, we have several workgroups which need assistance
between disasters - they are listed on the front page of the wiki
here:http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Main_Page We encourage you to
join in on their efforts.
Thanking you in advance for your input.
Heather, Noel and Andrew