sinsai info-rubykaigi

The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and what you can do as a Rubyist ?

(3/11 そしてRubyistとしてできること)

Makoto Inoue & Hal Seki

Makoto

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

• Lives in London　（ロンドン在住RoR エンジニア）

• “Building Real Time Web” @ RubyKaigi2010　　　（「リアルタイムウェブの作り方」RubyKaigi2010にて発表）

• A developer (at @newbamboo )

• In charge of international communication at sinsai.info (@sinsai_info_en)　（sinsai.info 翻訳班班長）

@makoto_inoue

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

I’d like to thank my company for sending me to RubyKaigi when I do not talk about their product nor services, but talk about sinsai.info, which is crisis mapping site for East Japan earthquake. At sinsai.info, I am in charge of international communication, where I mostly do translation.

CEO of Georepublic Japan（ジオリパブリックジャパン）

Managing director of sinsai.info　　　　　　　（sinsai.info 代表　Geo開発者）

Geo developer

OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan(NPO)（オープンストリートマップジャパン）

Cirius Technologies, inc.（シリウステクノロジー）

Hal Seki(@hal_sk)

Hal

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

• What happened after the earthquake? （地震直後）

• sinsai.info

• 4 months after 11th March（４ヶ月後）

• What can we do ?（我々になにができるだろうか？）

TOPICS（トピック）

Makoto

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Mar.11th 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5541815267/in/set-72157626305323978

• More than 15,000 people were killed.（犠牲者１万５千人以上）

• There are still another 5,000 people missing.　　（5千人以上の方々が未だに行方不明）

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Infrastructure was disrupted（ライフラインの深刻なダメージ）

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5549191112/in/set-72157626305323978

• Roads were completely disrupted.（交通機関の破損多数）

• Electricity and cell-phone networks were washed away.（電気や電話網のダメージ多）

• Cell-phone were useless more than 24hrs even in Tokyo.（地震直後は東京でも携帯が通じなかった）

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5549191112/in/set-72157626305323978

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Internet worked fine（インターネットは被災地以外では大体機能していた）

• Data explosion　（情報爆発）

• Data curation　（既存のソーシャルネットワークを使ったデータのキュレーション）

• Curated system（キュレーションのシステム化）

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Data Explosion（情報爆発）

http://gigazine.net/news/20110427_earthquake_twitter/

- Average Tweet per day (before) = 18, mil- Average Tweet per day (3/11) = 33, mil (Report by NEC Big Globe)

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Data Curation

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Data Curation

@takepon_jp [pls RT] Looking for my friends, 20 yrs old, height 150cm, black hair with partially

blonde

Celebs with many followers acted as hubs to spread important information

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Data Curation

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

John Roos is US ambassador to Japan

Some people were directly reaching influential figures

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Data Curation

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest rescue in this history of mankind.......”

「おはよう、諸君。これから１時間の間に世界中の部隊が集結する。そして人類史上最大の救出作戦が始まるだろう」 - Operation “Tomodachi” - -オペレーション「友達」作戦-

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Data Curation(or not)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

http://longtailworld.blogspot.com/2011/03/operation-tomodachi-is-real-but-obamas.html

“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from

here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind........”「おはよう、諸君。これから１時間の間に世界中の部隊が集結する。そして人類史上最大の空中戦が始まるだろう」

- Independence Day , President Speech - -インディペンデンスデイ-

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Data Curation(Types of false information)

（デマ、流説のタイプ別）

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

http://www.kotono8.com/2011/04/08dema.html

- Joke, Racism　ネタ、差別

- Confused information (Partially correct)　混乱した情報

- False announcement　誤ったアナウンスが訂正されず

Not all the information was curated properly. The use of unofficial “RT” made it difficult to delete the original tweet even after the information is false. Twitter announced to encourage the use of official tweet

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Curated systemキュレーションのシステム化

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Curated system

- Google person finder- launched after 2 hrs- over 600,000 records- Integrated with Picassa to convert name list from evacuation Center into the system with crowd source.

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

sinsai.info

Hal

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Example report 　一例

We need help! We are stuck in isolation at Akasaka hospital and getting suffer. Please spread this

information to the others.

I made a phone-call to Self-Defence force and they said they would go help ASAP

...

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

sinsai.info• Geo tagged report using Open Street

Map　オープンストリートマップを利用した地理情報のタグ付け

• Directly from the form & via twitter　　ウェブからのフォームとツイッターからのインプット

• Monitored , geotagged, and moderated by volunteers　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ボランティアによるモニター、タグ、モデレーション

• Launched within 4 hrs　災害発生４時間後に稼働

Geo tagged manually because normal twee, only 0.4 % of tweets has geotags attached

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It was even used during London tube strikes.

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

It was even used during London tube strikes.

PHP!!

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

PHP!!

PHP at RubyKaigi

http://www.slideshare.net/plataformatec/writing-your-own-programming-language-to-understand-ruby-better-euruko-2011

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Rubyists @ sinsai.info

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Why Rubyists working on PHP site?なぜRubyistがPHP？

• Big problem, no tasks, no work flows 　　　　　　　　　　課題はあるがワークフローもタスクもない状態

• Many Rubyists knew how to create tasks and flows through their daily Open Source activities.　　　　　Rubyistは日頃のオープンソース活動を通じて一から仕組みを作り上げていく能力に長けている

• A few Ruby core committers acted as core member of sinsai.info　実際Rubyのコアチームのメンバーもsinsai.infoのコアとして活動

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

•Over 12,000 reports　（リポート数１万２千以上）

• 1,000,000+ PV in first month　　　（稼働最初の月は百万PV）

• 500,000+ Unique Visitors　　　　　（５０万以上のユニークビジター）

•Accessed from Sendai the most　（仙台からのアクセス多数）

Usage（利用状況）

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

4 months after 11 MarHow is Japan doing?　　　　

（震災から４ヶ月たって）

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

sinsai.info March

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

• Safety enquiry 安否

• Available service 利用可能なサービス

• Mostly via Twitter　ツイッター経由

Safety = eg: looking for people

Available service = Gas, Bath, Food, Which stores are open?

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

sinsai.info July

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

• Volunteers, available services　　　　　利用可能なサービス、ボランティア募集

• Number of report decreasing　　　　　リポート数は減少

• Switched off Twitter hashtag crawling　ハッシュタグによる収集は停止

• Manually sourced from White listed & trusted news sites and blogs　　　　　　利用可能なサービス信頼できる特定のソースからRSSなどを取ってくる

Why switched off twitter?

- Noise ratio increased in twitter- More people started publishing information from their blogs and sites

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Open data & collaboration(not just from twitter)　

オープンデータ＆コラボレーション（ツイッターを超えて）

Open Data encourages mash ups.

http://wiki.ushahidi.com/doku.php?id=ushahidi_api

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Relief to recovery（救助から復興へ）

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001984/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Pictures-recovery-3-months-later.html

Makoto

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

35 %

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

35 %7,630,000 out of 21,830,000 tons of debris are cleared up

(source: Asahi news 8th July 2011)

　　　　２１８３万トン（推計）のうち、仮置き場に移されたのは３５％の７６３万トン　　　http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0708/TKY201107070768.html?ref=goo

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

5 years

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

5 yearsTook 5 years for the last person to leave from

temporary housing after Kobe earthquake in 1995.　　　阪神大震災後に仮設住宅から最後の人が退去するまでにかかった時間

http://www.hisaisha.net/archive/2000/01_14.html

http://www.cao.go.jp/shien/1-hisaisha/pdf/5-hikaku.pdf

Tohoku

Kobe

The graph shows the number of people at evacuation centre (before moving to temporary housing)

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

What can we do?　　　 （我々になにかできることはあるだろうか？）

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

　　Solving the wrong problem　　　　(コレハチョットチガウ)

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

　　Solving the wrong problem　　　　(コレモチョットチガウ)

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

hack4japan23rd, 30th July- Tokyo, Sendai, Aizu Wakamatsu

23rd, 24th July- Tono Iwate

hack4japanhttp://www.hack4.jp

Seki san will be at TonoIf anyone interested joining, ask Seki san after the talk

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

hack4japan

http://code.google.com/p/open-geiger-development-kit/

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

hack4japan

Photo: http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/img/iw/docs/456/371/html/h4j11.jpg.html

私たちのHackが被災者の方々の真に役立つためにはまだまだ時間がかかります。それでも私たちは長期的な視点に立って活動を続けようと思っています。　　　　　　　Google Japan 及川卓也氏

It will be along way for our hacks to be truly useful to the people at the disaster affected area, but continuing the activity is important.

Google Japan Mr. Takuya Oikawa

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

We are organising “Volunteer package”

Volunteer?

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Volunteer?

http://on.fb.me/oU4zp5 http://on.fb.me/pvI3E8

http://on.fb.me/qpXbsm http://on.fb.me/qF9nXB

Some facebook fan pages offer English Information　　　　Facebookには英語でボランティア情報を提供するfanページがいくつかあります

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Visiting Tohoku(eg: Matsushima, Miyagi 東北を訪れてみる）

http://japaneselandscapes.blogspot.com/2011/03/most-beautiful-place-in-all-japan-swept.htmlWednesday, 20 July 2011

Thank You

http://app.yonhapnews.co.kr/YNA/Basic/Gallery/YIBW_showPhotoNews_New.aspx?contents_id=PYH20110314082200340

http://sinsai.infohttp://www.hack4.jp

http://sinsai-info-en.blogspot.com@hal_sk

@makoto_inoue@sinsai_info_en

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Please have a look at sinsai-info-en.blogspot.com. Our translation team did a lots of translation from Japanese blog and you will find lots of interesting stories around sinsai.info