podcamp toronto: crowdsourcing crisis commons
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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