Rock your Friday night by coming to the bar camp/working group to blog and code to aid disaster response and recovery for the 15 million people displaced in the recent Pakistani floods. CrisisCampSiliconValley – Pakistan Floods (Pkfloods) Friday August 27, 5pm-10pm Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, NASA Research Campus. Bldg. 23 (MS 23-11), Moffett Field, CA [...]
CrisisCamp Weekend Wrap Report
A quick summary of the CrisisCamp activities for the weekend of August 21 – 22, 2010: Community conference call On Saturday, August 21, 2010, our Community held a conference call to talk about pkfloods, infrastructure planning and community support activities. We fine-tuned our virtual volunteer sign-up process, organized new CrisisCamp city mentorships, and received reports [...]
Help Crowdsource SMS Reports for the Pakistan Floods
SMS (Text messages) Reports + Your Brain + a search engine + google translate + basic map (long and lat coordinates) Mobile phones are used in Pakistan. There is a text message (SMS) short code created to help people in Pakistan send reports. The SMS reports link to a tool called Crowdflower. Volunteers review and [...]
CrisisCamps Today: Pkfloods, Chile and Preparedness
Saturday for most is a walk in a park. But today, CrisisCampers globally are mobilizing to try to help manage information in aid of the people providing relief in Pakistan. Why are we volunteering: Dr. Awab is documenting relief pictures on flickr. Dr.Awab’s Flickr Stream (all rights reserve) What is happening today? CrisisCamp (Pakistan aka [...]
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More on the recent CrisisCamp Italia
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New documents uploaded to the CrisisCommons Wiki page
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What happened at this weekend’s CrisisCamp Ireland
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CrisisCamp Italy: bridging gaps between VTCs and the authorities
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An Open Letter from Sahana’s Mark Prutsalis
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Great article about what we do and CrisisCamp Ireland
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Another article on the role of VTCs in emergencies
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