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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Ananda Leeke TV Profiles CrisisCamp Volunteers

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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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NPR to host #Crisis Camp in DC Jan 30

“>EVENT INVITE “>MUST SEE VIDEO…

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CrisisCommons Moves to Listservs for Communication

We are in the midst of completing a second round of whirlwind CrisisCamps, where hundreds have poured blood, sweat and tears into the creation & development of the Drupal website & wiki, the development of tons of awesome projects, and planned, organized and ran what will soon be around 20 CrisisCamps.  In short, we’ve done [...]

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CrisisCamp Haití – Bogotá

iMMAP Colombia, Humanitarian Studies Institute (Instituto de Estudios Humanitarios – IEH) , Red Enredo, and United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  – OCHA Colombia is calling for volunteers to attend “CrisisCamp Haití – Bogotá” on 23 January in Panamericanan Health Organisation / World Health Organisation.  To attend, please register at: http://crisiscampbogota.eventbrite.com .  For [...]

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