Update 1: Hurricane Irene (8/26/2011 6:30pm EST) Today there has been activity across email and Skype on supporting the Hurricane Irene response. Safety First – Be Smart First – if you are in the storm path, please take precautions and be prepared NOW for power outages and severe damage. We do not advocate for [...]
Contribute Your Vision of Participatory Crisis Management
Hi everybody! As you remember, an May 5th I testified before the U.S. Congress at a hearing entitled, “Understanding the Power of Social Media as a Communications Tool in the Aftermath of Disasters.” It is pretty common for Congressman to request follow up questions which could enhance the testimony based on the discussion during the [...]
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 [...]
CrisisCampNZ : brief update
CrisisCamp NZ is progressing well. http://eq.org.nz is expanding its role. The site is now providing the following services: People Finder Google is now promoting the official URL for its people finder to be http://eq.org.nz/finder. The tool is a public database, where people enter either names of persons they are looking for, or if they have information about someone. [...]
Update from CrisisCampNZ volunteers
CrisisCamp NZ has been coordinating http://eq.org.nz in response to the New Zealand earthquake. This email explains what the site has been doing and how to help if you would like to. About Eq.org.NZ Things that we have received feedback on: a diabetic has thanked us for telling her where to get her insulin parents finding [...]
RHoK the World – Join up!
Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) 2.0 is December 4 -5 , 2010. This 2-day global event brings together people to brainstorm on problem definitions for humanitarian aid. It will be attended by software developers, emergency managers, innovators, students, storytellers, project managers and entrepreneurs to collaborate and create. Started in 2009, it is a joint project [...]
Volunteering and Mozilla’s Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival
Community starts with volunteers. CrisisCommons and all the CrisisCamps have been on a massive journey exploring collaboration, crowdsourcing and volunteer technical communities for disaster and crisis response. I’m reading CrisisCamp city profiles and researching our progression for the Sloan Foundation Trustee proposal. We’ve received feedback from the CrisisCongress, the CrisisCommons Founders weekend and from individual [...]
Geeks without Bounds Hack-a-thon
Our friends over at Geeks without Bounds are holding a weekend hack-a-thon. There are great prizes up for grabs. Plus, you can contribute to great open source projects like Ushahidi, Crowdmap and Sahana. Geeks without Bounds is running a hack-a-thon on October 9/10, 2010. I met up with Geeks without Bounds‘ Johnny Diggz at the [...]
What to Expect – CrisisCamp Day
CrisisCamp Day of Learning-Saturday, September 25, 2010 Preparedness matters! Individuals, associations, organizations, NGOs, and companies all plan for emergencies. We set a goal at the CrisisCommons Congress in July 2010 to build more preparedness for CrisisCamp. Won’t you join us to learn, share and collaborate? We plan three main streams of activity: CrisisCamp in a [...]
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