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Seattle Haiti CrisisCamp 2

Saturday, February 6, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PT)

Renton, WA

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CrisisCamp Haiti Seattle area will bring together volunteers to collaborate on technology projects which aim to assist in Haiti's relief efforts by providing data, information, maps and technical assistance to NGOs, relief agencies and the public.  

Melody Sheldon  melody-s@live.com  (@melody_s)  will be leading up a team.


This event is free and open to the public. You don't have to be technical to volunteer time.  

 
Ongoing projects for CrisisCamp Haiti include:


1.    Base layer map for Port Au Prince: This project would create a new collection of imagery and a new base map for NGOs and relief agencies. Post available imagery to share with the public for open source applications.

2.    Haiti Hospital Capacity Finder: Members of the Haitian community have requested an application or tool where there is real time data regarding capacities of local hospitals. There are many hospitals outside of PaP who are under capacity and could be used.

3.  United Nations RSS Feed and Aggregator: At the request of the United Nations Development Program, CrisisCommons has been asked to provide an exhaustive list of RSS feeds

4. Crisis Wiki: an editable directory of resources related to disaster response and emergency preparedness. Initially focusing on Haiti-related information, the wiki is being designed so that it can easily expand to address future disasters, as well as collect important local, state, national and international emergency preparedness resources before a disaster strikes

 

 

About CrisisCamp

CrisisCamp will bring together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief. 

Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others. 

During Transparency Camp 09 and Government 2.0 Camp, several campers exchanged a host of ideas on the need to better connect people with their social networks and information through the use of technology, especially during times and places of crisis.  For example, campers shared how mobile innovation on mobile health and alternative power supplies was happening in Africa. Others shared how how citizens of the cloud used their technical skills to aggregate data to help people (often in another part of the world) synthesize desperate pieces of information into something they could understand. We uncovered a dividing line between international humanitarian relief and domestic crisis response. We saw common themes across all efforts including: the use of mobility, the Internet as a common coordination platform, the need for volunteers and the ability to provide alternative community communications access areas. By the end of the tweet-up, we had 40 volunteers sitting around in a circle with an agreement that there should be a forum to exchange these ideas. And it was there, where a common goal brought government, NGOs, private sector, hackers and activists together to create CrisisCamp. 

CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.  
 

CrisisCommons Wiki: http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake

CrisisCamp on Twitter: @CrisisCamp

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