crisismapping and beyond: introducing the standby task force (sbtf)
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Presentation at ISCRAM 2012 by Svend-Jonas Schelhorn of the Standby Task Force (SBTF)TRANSCRIPT
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Crisis Mapping and beyond:
Introducing the Standby Volunteer Task Force
Svend-Jonas [email protected]
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
January 12, 2010: Haiti
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Information Ecosystem Today
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
January 12, 2010: HaitiInformation Ecosystem Today
How can we make use of all the information out there in crisis response?
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
January 12, 2010: Haiti
© Patrick Meier http://www.slideshare.net/iRevolution
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
January 12, 2010: Haiti
http://healthmap.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/crisis-map-of-haiti.jpg
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
January 12, 2010: Haiti
© Patrick Meier http://www.slideshare.net/iRevolution
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Background
● Launched at the ICCM 2010 in Boston
● Online Community for Live Crisis Mapping
● Over 800 members from all over the world
● Only working with Open Source Data and Applications
● Decentralized horizontal network of volunteers acting on the base of a code of conduct
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Teams & Workflows
Cowdsourcing Applications
Crisis Mapping:
Collect Information
Analyze Information
Categorize Information
Viusalize Information
Response
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Teams & Workflows
Cowdsourcing Applications
● Volunteers get trained
● Each volunteer is member of at least one team
● Coordination during deployments via email, googledocs, skype and TF-website
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Tools we use
Cowdsourcing Applications
● Ushahidi
General Crowdsourcing- and mapping platform
● Tomnod
Crowdsourced analyzing of satellite images
● Crisis Tracker● New social-media
crowdmapping platform
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Past Activities
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Past Activities
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Challenges and Opportunities
● How to verify crowdsourced information?
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● Testing new tools● Meet professionals, broaden background●
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
Current & Upcoming Events
Testing the Crisis Tracker platform
South Sudan Mapping Activity
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
The Standby Volunteer Task Force
Our answer?
STANDBY TASK FORCE
To become a member apply at
http://blog.standbytaskforce.com
or contact [email protected]
And follow us on Twitter: @SBTaskForce