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 [...]
Monitoring 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Outside Of Christchurch, New Zealand
We are tracking the situation in Christchurch, New Zealand after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck outside of the city at 4:35am local time. We will continue to monitor reports leading up to our CrisisCamp Marathon Weekend this weekend, which we had initially put together to assist the Pakistan flood relief efforts, but anyone that wishes [...]
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 [...]
CrisisCamp -Silicon Valley (PKfloods) – Friday, August 27, 2010
Rock your Friday night by coming to the bar camp/working group to blog and code to aid disaster response and recovery for the 15 million people displaced in the recent Pakistani floods. CrisisCampSiliconValley – Pakistan Floods (Pkfloods) Friday August 27, 5pm-10pm Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, NASA Research Campus. Bldg. 23 (MS 23-11), Moffett Field, CA [...]
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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