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Heather Leson, Melanie Gorka and David Black February 26, 2011 Podcamp Toronto

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How can you use your technology and social media skills to help NGOs during emergencies? All you need is a computer and Internet access. CrisisCommons.org is a Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) made up of a growing group of technical, project manager, emergency planner and social media knowledge workers. After the earthquake in Haiti, cities around North America and the UK started CrisisCamp (Haiti) in their locations to volunteer their time to "help the helpers". They are using social media tools to crowdsource collaboration on various projects from software development to opensource mapping to social media translation – work that is new and evolving every minute. Heather, Brian, Rachel and others from CrisisCommons (Toronto) will be addressing the question how can technology and knowledge workers volunteer their skills with one click of a mouse.

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Heather Leson, Melanie Gorka and David Black

February 26, 2011 Podcamp Toronto

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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.

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Applied Social Media

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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

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90 days

8 countries

50 events

+2000 volunteers

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CrisisCamp Paris

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CrisisCamp Argentina

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CrisisCamp Bogota

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Team Canada

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Sahana Foundation

Ushahidi, Swift River and Crowdmap

OpenStreetMap

Frontline SMS

Crisismappers

Random Hacks of Kindness

Humanity Road

Geeks without Bounds

HFOSS and more

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Random Hacks of Kindness 1.0

June 2010 - 5 countries

500 volunteers

RhoK Sydney, Australia

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Nairobi to Montreal via Sydney and London

Ovoo + Skype + Twitter + IRC +

Wiki + Email

= 2 hours

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CrisisCamp Pakistan

August – September 2010

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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.

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Pakreport.org

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CrisisCamp London (UK) for Pakistan Floods

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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.

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CrisisCamp Sydney

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Random Hacks of Kindness 2.0

(RHoK)

December 2010

10 countries, 21 cities

1000 volunteers

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RHoK Chicago

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RHoK Toronto /Open Data Hackathon with CrisisCamp Toronto

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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

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[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

@crisiscampto

@crisiscamp

@crisiscommons

Crisiscommons.org

Photos by:

heatherleson, Brian Chick, Cynthia Gould, Mariella,

Ratzilla, Tolmie Macrae, Deborah Shaddon, Spike,

Luis Aguilar