Updated 4/27/2011: We received the official letter and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released the hearing notice. Follow some of these great folks like Craig Fugate, FEMA Administrator, Ann Curry, NBC News Anchor, Renee Preslar from Arkansas Emergency Management, Suzy DeFrancis of the American Red Cross and Shona Brown, Vice President at Google. Here’s [...]
UN Week Digital Media Lounge
We were honoured to present at the UN Week Digital Media Lounge alongside Adele Waugaman, senior director of the UN Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnerships; Patrick Meier, director of crisis mapping and strategic partnerships at Ushahidi; Oliver Lacey-Hall, deputy chief of the Communications & Information Services Branch at UN OCHA; Nigel Snoad of Microsoft [...]
Brainsharing: an Ignite presentation about CrisisCommons
I was honoured to present at O’Reilly Ignite’s: Ignite Toronto on Thursday, September 2, 2010. Video:
CrisisCamp Sydney on ABC
Martin Bliemel, from the Sydney CrisisCamp, was interviewed by Australian Broadcasting Company news about the work they’re doing for flood relief in Pakistan. In this short clip, you can hear him talk about the potential uses for Crowdflower and Pakreport.org Listen here
World Humanitarian Day
A Humanitarian Worker is some one who work to relief the suffering of human beens and to save lives, ruled by the humanitarian principles of Neutrality, Impartiality, Independence and Humanity. So, I think here in CrisisCommons, we are “Humanitarian Workers”. In December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly determined that “World Humanitarian Day” should be [...]
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 [...]
CrisisCampNYC Helps the Haiti Relief Efforts
CrisisCamp NYC releases video on Haiti relief projects and the existing needs for assistance. Check it out! Click here. Big thanks to Nicole D’Alonzo (@nikisnotes) video journalist for creating the video and @AnnaCurran and her team at CrisisCampNYC featuring @tonybgoode @marilynpratt@hermannm Well done!
Kicking off Crisis Camp DC: Helping Haiti, Watching Chile [February 27, 2009]
Once again, developers, geospational engineers and online media professionals have come together to work on crisis response applications. Today at the World Bank in Washington, dozens of volunteers are now at work at Crisis Camp DC. They’ll be working on finishing projects that have been created since the first Crisis Camp in January at the [...]
How to rebuild and recover in Haiti
An architectural nonprofit organization, Common Studio @ commonstudio.org, and professor and students at the College of Architecture plus Planning, University of Utah @ arch.utah. edu will bring design and engineering solutions to the people and nonprofits working on the ground of Haiti. If you know of any organization that is in need, please let me [...]
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