History

Documentation is important. We have many things documented but at this time, we are trying to get things up and running to support some current storms here and soon to be here. CrisisCommons began in March 2009 as a barcamp event to connect crisis management and global development practitioners to the technology volunteer community. During the Haiti response, CrisisCamp became a movement and added a response mechanism to the community.

Since 2009, CrisisCommons has coordinated crisis event responses such at the Haiti, Chile and Japan Earthquakes and the floods in Thailand, Nashville and Pakistan. Over 3,000 people have participated worldwide in over 30 cities across 10 countries including France, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Chile and Colombia. We have also supported many wildfires, started the development of many social media for emergency management (#SMEM) resources, use and the Virtual Operations Support Team (#VOST) model with ICS integration with FEMA and many national and local wildland fire responses with the National Incident Management Organizations (NIMO) and the US Forest Service. Additionally supporting many local and regional events.

We have done a lot of work in the past, went a bit dormant for a while and are now starting to regrow as the need for what was accomplished and brought together has come forward again.

Please bear with us as we work through a lot of upkeep at the moment. For now, it’s a small team being led and pushed by Pascal Schuback. We have others starting to get back into it from the past, some starting as new to the organization and hopefully build a momentum again in support of individual and communities resiliency to disasters. Off chance, are you a wiki guru? We could use some help with one that we would like to get back online. Reach out and let us know (connect@crisiscommons.org).

Join us in the discussion. (It used to be a Skype channel, but now it’s a Discord)

Thank you! Pascal