Thank you for visiting the CrisisCommons Haiti project. We’re actively working to help organize developers, volunteers, and responders in order to connect needs with providers.
This Saturday, January 16 there will be CrisisCamps being held in Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, Denver, Los Angeles, London, and elsewhere in order for people to work together quickly and provide much needed support.
Project Lists currently include:
- I Need, I Have “Craigslist” Match System (NGO Donation Management System)
- Port Au Prince Basemap (Geospatial) Open Street Map
- NGO (Mapping all the NGOs providing relief, people who are on the ground asking for help) – Commons
- Languages & Special Needs (Language Translators, Visual Communications) Forecasting potential needs, search for available systems, development of requirements) CMU
- Mobile Applications (Haiti App, Language App, Crisis Wiki App) – Need Mobile Lead
- NPR Crisis Wiki (reconstructing the system; data feed identification, search) – Andy Carvin
- Family Reunification (Finding all the missing persons systems, Creating a requirements to provide the Red Cross with suggestions to make the system more interoperable, Review/Update People Finder Standards) (Andy Carvin)
- Tech Volunteer Database (CrisisCommons)
- Tweak the Tweet (Colorado)
We are using Atrium for assigning tasks for each project. Please join.
It already sounds “old school — old tech” to me. Yet another unnecessary, ineffective, eviscerating “logistics boondoggle” as it is presented here. Why isn’t this being streamed LIVE over the Internet, with real-time feedback functionality, so that all the very best puter geeks & wizards who can NOT attend, would be able to participate? Instead, participants will have to drive & fly to the east coast in order to physically “meet in Washington.” It’s the same “Stone Age — Dark Ages” mentality that has resulted in the Haiti Relief effort logistics nightmare where all the aid is sitting at an airport, while critically needed medical supplies keep getting sent away for lack of airport space. Too often computer geeks, wizards and geniuses get entombed in old prehistoric mindsets, unable to realize the full potential of the puter technology already in place. What good are these high-tech advances if no one is going to utilize them when needed? Think of the time and money that would be saved.