crowdsourcing tech for social good and crisis response
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Digital volunteering with global collaboration and crowdsourcing is evolving. Our talk at Podcamp Toronto 2011 focused on 4 examples from the past 6 months: Random Hacks of Kindness 1.0 (Sydney, Australia) , CrisisCamp Pakistan, Random Hacks of Kindness 2.0 (Toronto, Canada) and CrisisCamp New Zealand.Podcamp TorontoFebruary 26, 2011Heather Leson, Melanie Gorka and David Black.2011.podcamptoronto.comTRANSCRIPT
Heather Leson, Melanie Gorka and David Black
February 26, 2011 Podcamp Toronto
Crisis Commons is a global network of
volunteers who use creative problem solving
and open technologies to help people and
communities in times and places of crisis.
Crisis Commons members organize response
events called CrisisCamps.
Applied Social Media
Code, test tools, translate, map, wiki, Twitter, Facebook, communicate, collaborate, plan, coordinate, iterate, brainstorm, research, analyze, report, broker relationships, create content, videos, pictures, slideshare, and document
90 days
8 countries
50 events
+2000 volunteers
CrisisCamp Paris
CrisisCamp Argentina
CrisisCamp Bogota
Team Canada
Sahana Foundation
Ushahidi, Swift River and Crowdmap
OpenStreetMap
Frontline SMS
Crisismappers
Random Hacks of Kindness
Humanity Road
Geeks without Bounds
HFOSS and more
Random Hacks of Kindness 1.0
June 2010 - 5 countries
500 volunteers
RhoK Sydney, Australia
Nairobi to Montreal via Sydney and London
Ovoo + Skype + Twitter + IRC +
Wiki + Email
= 2 hours
CrisisCamp Pakistan
August – September 2010
What if you read a text message (SMS) and could
help your neighbour?
+ Text message + short code
+ Report
+ Read, search, document and categorize
+ Map
Mobile phones are global.
Pakreport.org
CrisisCamp London (UK) for Pakistan Floods
Global CrisisCamp Marathon
September 4 – 5, 2010
24 hours
CrisisCamps:
Toronto Silicon Valley Sydney Bangkok London
Dozens of virtual volunteers collaborating with the
CrisisMappers , Sahana, OpenStreetMap and other
teams.
CrisisCamp Sydney
Random Hacks of Kindness 2.0
(RHoK)
December 2010
10 countries, 21 cities
1000 volunteers
RHoK Chicago
RHoK Toronto /Open Data Hackathon with CrisisCamp Toronto
So what does it all mean?
4 days
995 reports (verified and mapped)
82,121 unique visitors
From 65 countries
100s of local volunteers
Global volunteers and observers
@crisiscampto
@crisiscamp
@crisiscommons
Crisiscommons.org
Photos by:
heatherleson, Brian Chick, Cynthia Gould, Mariella,
Ratzilla, Tolmie Macrae, Deborah Shaddon, Spike,
Luis Aguilar