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WHAT APPROACHES WILL HELP US ADAPT TO A CHANGING 

WORLD AND PREPARE FOR THE UNEXPECTED? 

Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 2004

IN OUR OPINION, COLLABORATION MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE 

•  Diverse groups self‐organize seamlessly into a coherent whole. 

•  The flow of informaHon is: 

–  free, reliable, secure, 

–  up, down, sideways, 

–  Hmely, accurate, complete, relevant, and credible. 

•  The response is agile, coordinated, efficient, and effecHve.  

WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE 

A FEW REASONS WHY IT SELDOM DOES… 

Harsh field condiHons 

Slow, unreliable networks 

Hot, Hred, overloaded responders 

Low signal‐to‐noise raHo 

Data trapped in silos 

DisincenHves for cooperaHon 

Lack of good tools for  

  emergent collecHve acHon 

Ignoring the local community 

7 

InSTEDD 

Improve event detecHon and humanitarian response 

Socio‐technical organizaHon and mission 

CollaboraHon technologies 

Worldwide, with field laboratory in Phnom Penh 

Free & open source 

CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS CREATE A PRESSURE COOKER FOR INNOVATION 

GRAMEEN SOLUTIONS GRAMEEN SHAKTI GRAMEEN KAYLAN GRAMEEN PHONE 

Free     Open source     Standards 

The InSTEDD Technology PlaZorm 

Mesh4X:  Share Data Across All Boundaries –  MESH4X lets you integrate applicaHons, devices, and informaHon seamlessly 

into a shared, synchronized, distributed data mesh 

GeoChat:  Take Decisive AcHon in Response –  GEOCHAT lets you engage and coordinate with everyone who needs  to be 

involved, linking headquarters, field, and the local community 

Evolve:  Synthesize Data into AcHonable InformaHon –  EVOLVE lets you and your team monitor and collaborate around diverse data 

streams to detect, analyze, triage and track criHcal events as they unfold 

INFORMATION FLOW 

Nokia Phone with Khmer script support, and an unlikely fortune cookie note 

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InSTEDD GEOCHAT The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again.

SMS, TwiNer, email, …      LocaQon Open and Closed Groups     Explicit or AutomaQc LocaQon SMS‐Only interacQon API Semi‐structured informaHon, extensible pipeline 

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INTEROPERABILITY 

Laptops from all over the world come together to integrate medical records systems, HISA South Africa 2008 

 A synchronizaQon framework for seamless informaQon sharing Mesh4x 

•  Fuse data from diverse applicaHons, sources, and devices 

•  Synchronize data automaHcally between databases, files, websites, desktop socware, PDAs, maps, and the Cloud 

•  HTTP, files & SMS •  RESTFull N‐way data sync •  Open standards: FeedSync, RSS/

ATOM, XForms, RDF •  MulHple channels: hep, files, SMS •  Available in both .NET and Java  

Come and play ‐ Mesh4x.org 

• MySQL • Hibernate • MSAccess • MSExcel • AmazonS3 • JavaROSA • EpiInfo • KML (G Earth) 

SHARING DATA IS DISRUPTIVE 

Les Lenert from CDC briefs about technologies they consider disrupHve.  Mesh4x changes the game of data ownership and storage lock‐in 

FROM DATA TO COLLECTIVE ACTION 

InSTEDD Evolve 1.0 CollaboraQve decision support around streams of informaQon Features: •  Create collaboraHve workspaces 

•  Subscribe to data 

•  Sic through the data for emerging events 

•  Annotate items with tags, comments, raHngs, links, locaHons, files, alerts, and other social metadata 

•  Autonomous agents perform data extensions, feature extracHon, classificaHon, tagging,  geo‐coding 

•  Human teams act with augmentaHon of machine learning 

ARCHITECTURE DECENTRALIZED 

OCCASIONALLY CONNECTED 

INTREROPERABILITY 

SECURITY 

TOP‐DOWN AND BOTTOM‐UP DECOUPLED 

USER‐EMPOWERING DIVERSITY 

CONTEXT AWARE DYNAMIC 

…CONSTANT EXPLORATION! DATA AS A BUILDING BLOCK 

PATTERNS ‐   SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM IN A CONTEXT 

PATTERN LANGUAGES FOR ISSUES THAT MATTER IN THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD? 

HUMAN INTERACTION DESIGN 

InSTEDD InnovaHon Lab 

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Socio‐technical lab Neutral space for gov, org, edu & com  

In‐situ interacHon design 

Dissolving silos of data & trust 

Local Sustainable InnovaHon 

Thank You! Eric Rasmussen  rasmussen@instedd.org       @rasmussene 

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Buddhist monks bless the InSTEDD InnovaHon Lab and our generator, 2009.   As far as illusions go, electricity is a darn useful one 

Eduardo Jezierski    edjez@instedd.org       @edjez 

AGILITY = ADAPTIVE 

Release Plan 

IteraHon Plan 

IteraHon Release 

Daily Standup 

Dev & Test 

Spikes 

Release 6w • Quality • Requirements • FuncHonal and non • PrioriHes • Partners • Demo Scripts 

IteraHon 2w • PrioriHes • Key Tasks • Deployments 

“Day” 1d • Dev, Test, UX • Community 

6 weeks 

2 weeks 

Day 

Release 

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DOUG ENGLEBART BOOST MANKIND’S COLLECTIVE CAPABILITY FOR COPING WITH 

COMPLEX, URGENT PROBLEMS 

The Engelbart Hypothesis: collaboraHve poster in display/construcHon at O’Reilly Sebastopol offices, Foo Camp 2008 

CollecHve AcHon 

Hybrid Disease Surveillance Surveillance Systems 

Capture Filter Verify 

IdenHfied risks Mandatory noHficaHon Laboratory surveillance 

Emerging risks Syndromic surveillance Mortality monitoring 

Healthcare acHvity monitoring PrescripHon monitoring 

Non healthcare based Veterinary surveillance Behavioral surveillance 

Environmental surveillance Poison centers 

Food safety/water supply … 

DomesHc, NGOs Field Reports Open Media Surveillance Veratect (Argus) , GPHIN, etc  Int’l DistribuHon lists 

ProMed (Regular, MBDS, Spanish, Russian, etc.) 

InternaHonal agencies  WHO, OIE, CDC NASA (e.g., remote sensing, weather, populaEon migraEon, bird migraEon, populaEon density, plant, animal) 

ConfidenHal/Limited ProMed (e.g., MBDS) InternaEonal health regulaEon agencies (WHO, OIE, CDC, NASA) Threat bulleEn (EWARN, ECDC) 

Public disseminaHon News, blogs, arEcles,  Health ministry press releases websites Weekly releases (Eurosurveillance) 

Event Monitoring Indicator Based  Event Based 

Collect Analyze Interpret 

Signal 

Assess 

Control measures 

Disseminate Alert 

InvesHgate