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UK Crisis Crowdsourcing
Sara Farmer, Opencrisis.net, @opencrisis
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How Can We Use These?
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How We’ve Used Them Already
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Real-time Twitter Maps
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Citizen Reporting
• SMS 4636, 3441 etc
• Translate, geolocate, structure, categorise
• Approve
• Map
• Report
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London Tube strikes: Ushahidi
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Crisismapping Timeline
• Prepare!
• Hashtag, webpage
• CrisisMappers, Crisiscommons, Google, UN etc
• News watch, TweakTheTweet, OpenStreetMap
• SMS, ham radio
• Ushahidi, Sahana, PeopleFinder
• Translators
• Camps (typically 5 weeks)
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The Vision
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UK Vision
• Connected organisations• UK group for UK and global crises
• UK-specific preparation• ‘Everyday’ crisismapping tools• OpenStreetMaps • CrisisWiki
• Crowd information• Situation awareness and analysis• Two-way tools
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Response CommunitiesCrisisMappers
• Standby Task Force
• CrisisMappers.net
• Ushahidi / SwiftRiver
• Sahana
• OpenStreetMap
• Louisiana Bucket Brigade
• The Extraordinaries
• CrisisCampLdn
NGO/Local Coordinators
• UNOCHA - reliefweb
• CDAC
• Diaspora
Tool Developers
• RHOK
• Aid Information Challenge
• ICT4Peace
• Ushahidi
• OpenStreetMap
• Sahana
• CrisisCommons
• InSTEDD
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RHOK Birmingham, December 4th & 5th