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 [...]
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 [...]
CrisisCamp Sydney update – Day 1
In just a little over two weeks of planning and organizing for a weekend of geocoding and crowdsourcing, CrisisCamp Sydney organizers kicked off a rainy Saturday morning with 15 volunteers ready to do what they can to help with the reconstruction efforts in the unprecedented Pakistan floods crisis. Partner organizations that made this event happen [...]
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 [...]
CrisisCamp Marathon Weekend
Join us for a CrisisCamp Marathon Volunteering Weekend for the Pakistan Floods. We will be working to assist our friends and partner organizations: OpenStreetMap, Sahana and Crowdmap(Ushahidi). Each individual city may also be working on tasks listed on the CrisisCommons wiki for pkfloods. We’ll be working in a number of countries and timezones with staggered [...]
CrisisCamp London Weekend Update
CrisisCamp London has been going strong for 4 weeks with mapping and managing info for the Pakistan Floods. The small, but determined team has inspired all of us with their efforts to tackle some tough questions. Photos from Spike from this weekend’s camp It was a holiday weekend in the UK, but we still got [...]
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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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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