[net-gold] COUNTRIES: HAITI : DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : TECHNOLOGY : VOLUNTEERS AND VOLUNTEERING: Hackers Helping Haiti: Find or Organize a Hackathon Near You
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:11:07 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: HAITI :
DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES :
TECHNOLOGY :
VOLUNTEERS AND VOLUNTEERING:
Hackers Helping Haiti: Find or Organize a Hackathon Near You
Hackers Helping Haiti: Find or Organize a Hackathon Near You
Written by Jolie O'Dell /
January 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Read Write Web
<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hackers_helping_haiti.php>
[This event was held last weekend.]
In an ongoing effort to help the poorest country in the Americas survive
and recover from a devastating earthquake, hackers around the world are
participating in CrisisCamp Hackathons this Saturday, January 16.
The unconference-style events are free for attendees, who are asked to
volunteer their time and expertise to create technology projects that
provide data, information, maps and technical assistance to
non-governmental organizations, relief agencies and the public.
The Crisis Camps being held this weekend will all directly benefit
Haitian relief efforts.
Volunteers of all kinds - the technically talented and others, too - are
requested to sign up.
Hackathons are being organized in Silicon Valley, London, Washington DC
and Boulder/Denver. Some of these events still need organization and
leadership help; volunteers are asked to take charge and donate whatever
time or resources they have available.
UPDATE: Hackathons are also being organized in Los Angeles and Brooklyn.
Proposed projects so far include a base layer map for Port Au Prince for
NGOs and relief agencies, a family locator system, a volunteer skill
matrix, a news aggregator to coordinate data feeds and ongoing definitions
to support ongoing CrisisCamp efforts. For an idea of how these kinds of
tech can help in times of national and natural disasters, check out Chad
Catacchio's post on crisis mapping.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Crisis Commons CrisisCommons Projects
CrisisCommons is Community Technology + Humanitarian Relief
CrisisCommons brings together domain experts, developers, and first
responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian
crisis management and disaster relief -- for projects like these.
New Projects
New Project: Haiti Hospital Capacity Finder
New Project: Disaster Accountability Project
New Project: Disaster Accountability Public Database
New Project: RSS Feed Challenge
New Project: Situational Awareness and Damage Assessment Information
System
New Project: Technology Volunteer Database
New Project: Haitian Skilled Workforce Retention
Ongoing Projects
Open Solace Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti's Communications Network, One Haitian at a Time
<http:///opensolacehaiti.org>
<http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Category:Open_Solace_Haiti>
<http://gfem.org/node/749>
CrisisCommons Legal and Intellectual Property Considerations
Haitian Voices
Language and Translation
Mainstream online translation tools don't support the Creole language.
This project is dedicated to using technology to assist in translating
priority content resources between Creole and English (and other
languages) in support of relief assistance and CrisisCamp projects.
<http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Languages_and_Translation>
Haiti Basemap
The damage of the earthquake has left roads and villages inaccessible, and
people displaced from their homes. Volunteers around the world are using
historic maps, satellite imagery, and local knowledge to create an open
basemap for Port-au-Prince and other affected areas of Haiti.
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti>
Mapping NGOs in Action
<http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mapping_NGOs_in_Action>
Person Finder
Test messages (SMS) have been sent from within Haiti to emergency response
teams. All of these messages have been acted on already!
But some of them also contained information about Missing People. These
aren't yet linked to the main record of missing people called 'People
Finder', and we need help moving them across. We know that many of them
are now found! We need to consolidate the records so that people can know
what has happened to their friends and family as soon as possible.
<http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/
index.php?title=Family_Reunification_Systems>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yhujdls>
Crisis Wiki
CrisisWiki is a 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.
<http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Crisis_Wiki>
The Haiti Timeline
<http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Haiti_Timeline>
Tweak the Tweet
<http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tweak_the_Tweet>
Crisis Commons Website
http://www.crisiscommons.org/
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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