Below is an announcement from CrisisCampNZ about the group’s decision to no longer maintain/update the main Christchurch Recovery Map website as of March 11: As things in Christchurch begin to switch from ‘response’ mode to ‘recovery’ mode, we have consulted with people on the ground in Christchurch on the future of the eq.org.nz site. Given [...]
Project update for the Christchurch Recovery Map
This update contains lots of information. That’s because it was a great day for the project. It was our first face to face meetup, which was really cool. http://eq.org.nz continues to strengthen. Thanks again to all of the volunteers for making this such a great service. If you wish to volunteer for this effort, please [...]
How the Eq.org.nz site came about to help with the Christchurch earthquake
Johnny Diggz from Geeks without Bounds coined it the Crisis Voltron. Within an hour after the earthquake in New Zealand, christchurch.crowdmap.com was launched, piratepad.net (collaboration tool), a blog post circulated, multiple tweets sent and a skype group chat formed. We connected volunteers from New Zealand, United States, Canada and around the world including people from [...]
Marathon Weekend: Toronto Update
It’s about 9:30pm on Friday night, and eight of us are hanging out at the University of Toronto. We spent the first couple hours getting our new volunteers up to speed on all the tools, and attacking some of the SMS Messages for PakReport.org. After a bit of grumbling about excessive scrolling, we are thrilled [...]
Afternoon Checkpoint at CrisisCamp DC: Bootstrapping and Tackling
As has been the case at each of these events, the rooms of volunteers are rich with quiet, intense conversation punctuated by the tapping of keys and familiar pulse of Tweetdeck notifications. Ushahidi in Chile and populating the People Finder After hours of work, each of the project managers at Crisis Camp DC reported on [...]
11 AM conference call for Crisis Camps around the country
Later in the morning, after the kickoff for Crisis Camp DC, volunteers gathered for a conference call to connect efforts across North America and beyond. The World Bank’s Joaquim Toro offered a briefing on Chile, which experienced a serious earthquake in the early hours of the morning. “This is basically the opposite of what we saw [...]
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 [...]
CrisisCamp Calgary – Wrap up
One of four CrisisCamps happening in Canada this weekend, Calgary had a moderate but productive turnout for our first CrisisCamp.  Lucky for me I had 2 project managers volunteer who helped with narrowing down the scope of projects we wanted to present to the group based on their skill sets. We presented what we [...]
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 [...]
3 PM Checkpoint at Crisis Camp DC: Aspirations Translated to Code
By 3 PM, project managers at Crisis Camp DC had substantive accomplishments to report from the day’s work. Whether it was translation of educational resources, a working crisis resources wiki or a “SimCity for the Haitian Government,” goals had gone from aspirations on white boards to coded realities. Machine Translation: A team in Toronto has [...]
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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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