- 1.Social Media Monitoring Typhoon Pablo/Bopha Philippines
Overview of Social Media Mapping Activation Typhoon Pablo/Bopha
December 4-6, 2012 February 2013
2. Pacific Endeavor Knowledge Management August 15, 2012
Presented by Cat Graham In 2011 volunteers contributed over 17,000
hours of service. In 2012 they monitored over 300 events in 56
countries participated in, helped develop or execute over a dozen
exercises or experiments that included social media and online
crisis mapping. The volunteers of Humanity Road are doing a superb
job of providing useful and actionable advice to disaster affected
communities, both before and after disasters strike." Gisli
Olafsson, ICE-SAR Team Leader (NetHope) Global 501c3 NGO public
charity Digital Disaster Response About Humanity Road A few folks
we have worked with and supported Humanity Road in the News 3. On
Wednesday, December 5th Humanity Road received a request to
activate on behalf of UNOCHA via the Digital Humanitarian Network
(DHN). Since our volunteer network had been monitoring social media
prior to activation, we had already collected information in
advance of activation. The DHN joint solution determined to
activate both Humanity Road and the Standby Taskforce. The focus
for Humanity Road volunteers was the collection and input of
reports that were generated prior to December 5th. In order to
provide a joint response that is seamless, volunteers submitted
reports into a crisis map provided by Standby Volunteer Taskforce
volunteers. This streamlined workflow, the team further separated
focus of resources on particular dates for data mining to improve
efficiency of joint resource. The solution team was given 12 hours
to produce a data set for UN OCHA Coordinated Assessment Support
Section (CASS) in Geneva. The resulting output assisted UN OCHA
CASS in creating a situational report and the dataset was utilized
by the Google Crisis team as an overlay into their Crisis Map. The
following outlines the timeline and outputs for this groundbreaking
activation. Typhoon Pablo/Bopha Overview 4. About The Digital
Humanitarian Network The purpose of the Digital Humanitarian
Network (DHNetwork) is to leverage digital networks in support of
21st century humanitarian response. More specifically, the aim of
this network-of-networks is to form a consortium of Volunteer &
Technical Communities (V&TCs) and to provide an interface
between formal, professional humanitarian organizations and
informal yet skilled-and-agile volunteer & technical networks.
http://digitalhumanitarians.com/ HR SBTF GW OB HOT SWB GISC Corp
Map A TWB DK ESRI UNV 5. Typhoon Pablo/Bopha - Activations Wed Dec
3 - 4 Humanity Road monitoring event Situation Report Humanity Road
Volunteers mobilized early on December 3, 2012 monitoring the
Typhoon for emerging impacts. Volunteers from Urgent Needs and
Animals in Disaster team deployed online to monitor and collect
emerging impacts and support urgent needs. The team was
geospatially distributed from Vienna, Germany, USA, and New
Zealand. Our situation report was released early on December 4 and
another one posted on December 5 summarizing the destruction in
Cateel. Wed Dec 3 - 4 Hashtags identified included #bopha, #pablo,
#typhoon, #pa bloPH, #bophaPH, #Philippines , #Mindanao, #Visayas,
#Hinatu an, #CDO (Cagayan de Oro), #walangpasok (school
cancellations), #reliefPH, rescu ePH, #pablosafetytips 6. Typhoon
Pablo/Bopha DHN Activation Report Map Thu Dec 6 Wed Dec 5 Wed Dec 4
Humanity Road is monitoring event UN OCHA activates DH Network, DHN
deploys Humanity Road and Standby Task Force Content was collected
into Ushahidi platform which was pulled into several output formats
& Delivered Thursday morning The United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) activated the Digital
Humanitarian Network (DHN) on December 5th at 3pm Geneva time (9am
New York). The deployment team was given 12 hours to complete the
project 7. Social Media Message Volunteer Crisis Team Requesting
Official Dateline Philippines Cateel & Boston hardest Hit areas
Social Media Crisis Map Brought to you by Typhoon Pablo/Bopha
Collection The activation requested to collect all relevant tweets
about Typhoon Pablo posted on December 4th and 5th; identifying
pictures and videos of damage/flooding shared in those tweets;
geo-locate, time-stamp and categorize this content. Volunteer
network coordinated by DHN was supported by Humanity Road and
Stand-by Volunteer Task Force (SVTF). The team then provided the
database at 5am Geneva time the following day. Information was
categorised in sixteen categories. Over 20,000 feeds were scanned
filtering 122 unique data items. Wed Dec 5 8. Typhoon Pablo/Bopha-
Outputs The DHN Team provided the database at 5am Geneva time the
following day on Dec 6. The UN OCHA Coordinated Assessment Support
Section in Geneva compiled Social Media Map and Report using the
data. Subsequently the data was imported into Google Crisis
Response Map as a data layer and NetHope utilized the situation
report as well in their report issued December 6 Wed Dec 6 9.
Typhoon Pablo/Bopha - NetHope Reports NetHope utilized the
information, Pulling from the initial HR Situation report For their
NetHope Situation report #1 Issued Dec 6 10. Typhoon Pablo/Bopha-
Google Crisis Map Reports The Google Crisis Organization exported
the data from the crisismap as a layer. The crisis map, available
in Filipino, shows the typhoon track, landslide- and flood-prone
areas, areas under public storm warning signals, and other
important information about the disaster. (Source) 11. Typhoon
Pablo/Bopha- UN OCHA Report Page 1 UN OCHA Coordinated Assessment
Support Section in Geneva compiled Social Media Report using the
database provided to them. Reports 12. Typhoon Pablo/Bopha- UN OCHA
Report Page 2 Reports 13. Typhoon Pablo/Bopha- UN OCHA Report Page
3 Reports 14. Typhoon Pablo/Bopha- UN OCHA Report Page 4 Reports
15. assessment results after a disaster determine the future and
scope of the relief efforts and directly impact the affected
population. The results of this exercise will also contribute to
on-going work . in the Philippines with regards to Communication
with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC). This allows humanitarian
actors to establish two way communication with affected
communities, increasing affected communities involvement in
decision making process On behalf of United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, I would like to take a moment
to thank Humanity Road, Stand-by Volunteer Task Force (SVTF),
DHNetwork and .UN OCHA ISS for job well done December 9, 2012 From
a letter of thanks addressed to the Digital Humanitarian Network,
and deployed team Humanity Road, Standby Volunteer Task Force 16.
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