September 7, 2010
- The Haiti building damage atlas was produced by the United Nations’ Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)/Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the World Bank in support to the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) process led by the Government of Haiti.
For each main city a...
September 6, 2010
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September 3, 2010
In-depth report and case studies put together by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs and Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies.
This has examples and best practices looking at flood mapping, earthquake damage assessment, dust storm tracking, wildfires, IDP camps, and much much more.
Also includes a section by the UN-SPIDER organization (Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response.)
August 31, 2010
- Depiction, Inc., makers of Depiction mapping, simulation & collaboration software is going to be doing the CrisisMappers webcast on April 7, and the details for that should be going up on the GeoTime website soon.
To give you some (very) brief background, Depiction is designed to be a lightweight, affordable and easy-to-use program that puts powerful GIS, simulation & collaboration tools in the hands of ordinary people. Our primary... - The video below shows how impressive is the progress of Open Street Map data coverage over Port-au-Prince.
It clearly shows the quick increase of data from the day after the disaster (T+1).
Link to the video.
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August 28, 2010
Francesca Garrett is a Psychology student in New Haven, CT. When she isn’t translating SMS messages (or in the chat room as AnyaPetrova), she writes for Mission 4636, and serves as Resource Coordinator for the Translation Team and Fletcher School Situation Room. She can be reached at francesca.garrett@gmail.com
...- In the wake of the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti Tuesday, many concerned professionals from diverse organizations are mobilizing to help. I’m especially proud of the fact that some of my friends and colleagues from the Crisis Camp community are leading the charge.
If you are a humanitarian assistance, international development, emergency response or other professional who is looking for opportunities to help, please join a conference call at 11:00 AM EST on... - On Tuesday, January 12th, a devastating earthquake rattled through the small island nation of Haiti. With the help of former President Clinton’s aide Doug Band, The Clinton Global Initiative sprang into action immediately, sending supplies, gathering funds, and developing plans for the long term economic viability of the country in the wake of such a disaster. As the...
- Hello All,
Luke Beckman invited me onto the group some time ago - a few of you know me, but for those who don't... My name is Janet Ginsburg and I edit http://www.TrackerNews.net, an aggregator that focuses on health (human, animal, eco), humanitarian work and technology that supports both. It is a little unusual in that stories are not organized by category, but grouped for contextual relevance (breaking news, research... - A pleasure to join the conference called Harvard Model United Nations 2010 taking place in the last weekend of January 2010.
Delightfully, I was asked to speak during the morning Saturday's session (10am) under the framework for the Committee on Science and Technology for Development.
The subject of my talk was mostly inspired by the professional events of my... - The map presents a total building count and damage as assessed from both satellite and post event aerial survey imagery covering the Commune of Port-au-Prince. Damaged buildings were classified according to
visually-assessed damage levels. At this time this is one of the most accurate and complete damage map I have seen for this event.
... A statement from Doug Band: "President Bill Clinton was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital after feeling discomfort in his chest. Following a visit to his cardiologist, he underwent a procedure to place two stents in one of his coronary arteries. President Clinton is in good spirits and will continue to focus on the work of his Foundation and Haiti's relief and long-term...
Please find the first draft version of a 8.5 x 11" (or A4 ISO page size) 1:25,000 street atlas for Concepcion, Chile at the link provided below. Data is courtesy of OpenStreetMap. We would welcome additional (but reasonable) requests, comments, and feedback. We've used some new compression techniques that squeeze the entire atlas down to 0.8MB in size. Just in case that's still too large, we've still made each page individually available. Total number of 1:25,000...
- Dear All,
My fellow co-founder of this CrisisMappers Network, Jen Ziemke, kindly put together an excellent Executive Summary that concretely details the incredible collaboration by members of this network. Truly remarkable to see the extent of the rapid information sharing and collaboration in the disaster response. I highly recommend looking through this:
http://...
August 24, 2010
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August 20, 2010
- The primary communications tool used in the Orange Revolution" in the Ukraine was the mobile phone, SMS/txt messaging. SMS played the vital role in organizing and rallying citizens. The following year in "elections" in Belarus, the government, having seen what happened in the Ukraine, shut down the cellular network. In Shanghai, police used SMS messaging to warn citizens to stay away from anti-Japan protests. In Cambodia, during governing council elections, mobile networks were shut down for...
August 18, 2010
ReliefWeb has put together a comprehensive briefing kit for the ongoing floods in Pakistan, which are reported to have affected 20 million people to date, and killed an estimated 1,600. This is an excellent resource for comprehensive overview of the disaster.
http://wiki.ict4peace.org/f/Pakistan_Floods__Jul_2010-OCHA-88FJ4Q.pdf...
August 5, 2010
Friday Holiday, burgers, steaks and Splugen!
Date: Aug 5, 2010
Number of Photos in Album: 21- My office, the US Agency for International Development's Office of
Transition Initiatives, is looking for a web GIS developer to help us do more
web 2.0 things. Are you looking, or do you know anybody who's looking?
The Office of Transition Initiatives works in countries in political
transition, like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uganda, Colombia and the like.
The person would be part of the IT/GIS team and would...
August 4, 2010
CHIPS, the Department of the Navy Information Technology Magazine, has published an article on how Haiti earthquake response teams use the STAR-TIDES model to facilitate coordination and relief operations. The article covers TIDES’ experience with the Haiti disaster, and how we helped catalyze knowledge sharing for relief efforts between U.S. Southern Command and a global community of civilian technologists dedicated to the use of geographic information systems tools in crisis response....
- If only Marvin Gaye could have seen all this! Better for him that he's missing it.
It is only fitting that my last post ended before diving off into the subject of populating the map. This activity is all encompassing, especially if the goal is to get local people to tell their stories. That is our goal - a map that is reflective of what's happening on the ground along the Gulf Coast.
One of the most inspiring aspects of Ushahidi and Crisis Mapping is the idea that regular...
August 3, 2010
- NAIROBI, 3 August 2010 (IRIN) - In a nondescript room on the 14th floor of a Nairobi office block, the words “hate speech” appear on a computer screen next to the name of a prominent politician, with location, a telephone number and buttons marked “Not verified” and “Follow-up”. Another message reads: “If you think peace is expensive, try violence!” Yet another says: “Plz help us. A certain community is threatening other communities to vacate the area in case YES...
July 28, 2010
Recently read about the Aquaya Institute, which does research into water purification, and specifically focuses on the technology, the delivery, and measuring the results. They also are developing their "Water Business Kit" which can help entrepreneurs and small-businesses provide safe water to customers in areas where there is little infrastructure to purify water.
We added them to our Water Infrastructure page -...