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 [...]
Ejercicio de Cartografía en Crisis Colombia / CrisisMapping Tolima Colombia
( On 21 August 2010 in Rovira ( Tolima, Colombia) a group of volunteers mappers will collect and prepare information of some risk zones with no map data, and put on OpenStreetMap) [Spanish] El día sábado 21 de Agosto, se realizará un ejercicio de cartografía en crisis en el que un grupo de colaboradores de [...]
CrisisCampCamb – Press Release and Global Community Conference Call
CrisisCamp Pakistan started in the UK with London and Cambridge and in Canada with Calgary and Montreal. The first Camps were on Saturday, August 14th, 2010. These folks have been volunteering tirelessly crowdsourcing to aid information and mapping for Pakistan. CrisisCamp London and Cambridge are both having CrisisCamps this weekend. Our global Community has a [...]
Crowdsourcing Communities attempt to aid Pakistan
Crowdsourcing during a Crisis is evolving. Here are some of the amazing activities that you can volunteer your knowledge and technical skills to help manage information, maps, and development. We may not save people and the geopolitical situation is very uncertain, however, using our skills may make a difference. If not today, then someday. Reading [...]
CrisisCamp Chile at the World Bank
18 people have come to work on projects for CrisisCamp Chile DC at the World Bank. There are also CrisisCamps occuring in Orlando, Stanford, and Bogata, Columbia. In coordination with the Digitales for Chile, a group of technology volunteers in chile, we are working on Ushahidi and Google Person Finder for Chile. Other people are [...]
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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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