Accepted Ignite Talk Proposals

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Florance on September 13, 2009 at 2:31pm

Name: Patrick Florance
Title: The Use of Geospatial Technology to Survey Urban Internally Displaced Persons
Description:
In an effort to facilitate the development of better quality information on urban internally displaced persons (IDPs) populations in conflict-affected countries, IDMC commissioned a study of three urban locations: Khartoum (Sudan), Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) and Santa Marta (Colombia). The primary objective is to gather reliable data on urban IDP populations to find out more about their social and economic integration and their assistance and projection needs.

A variety of geospatial technologies such as GIS, maps, spatial statistics, remote sensing, virtual globes and GPS were employed to facilitate the operation and management of the urban surveys. The integration of these geospatial technologies proved vital in conducting the surveys and in allowing the information to be used in a meaningful way to researchers.

The project is managed by Dr. Karen Jacobsen of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).

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Permalink Reply by Mikel Maron on September 14, 2009 at 5:28pm

Alternately, I could focus more on my upcoming project, Map Kibera

http://www.rockburger.com/kiberawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Mikel Maron said:

Mikel Maron
Open Works: A Report from the Camp Roberts exercises
OpenStreetMap, Google, Sahana, Development Seed, Geocommons, and others participated in the Camp Roberts exercise this August. With a policy of Open- standards, source, data, and policy, we quickly integrated systems and shared data. Just a couple years ago this was all just back of the napkin drawings. These mapping systems are now more prepared for deployment in real emergencies, and are being installed at the Taj in Jallabad (Beer for Data!).

http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/08/10/1452

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Permalink Reply by Michael Graham on September 15, 2009 at 12:59pm

Michael Graham

An Update on the BrightEarth Humanitarian Sensor Web

BrightEarth, aka the Humanitarian Sensor Web, is a data collection platform that relies on humanitarian staff to collaboratively build global datasets of critical information before and during crisis- but especially before. Rather than focus on base data such as roads or settlements, or public crowdsourcing during crises, which projects like OSM and Ushahidi are tackling, we aim to target the shifting data layers such as NGO project sites, health clinics, IDP camps, as well as critical events such as attacks against villages. I'll explain how we seek to make the data-collection process simple and accurate for non-technical users, and incentivize data collection by providing users a realtime situational awareness platform with integrated social networking.

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Permalink Reply by David Kobia on September 16, 2009 at 7:28pm

Name: David Kobia
Title: Ushahidi: Open Source Development & Crisis Mapping Challenges and Deployment
Description: Ushahidi is a free and open source platform for crowd-sourcing crisis information developed of the course of the last year. The Ushahidi Engine allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. In this talk I'll present a few case studies along with highlighting our experiences and challenges in getting this platform to work.

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Permalink Reply by Bernard Wright on September 17, 2009 at 7:22am

Name: Bernard Wright
Title: Transport Mapping for Disaster Management

In a natural disaster, understanding how to access the affected populations is of greatest importance for responders. However in countries where the greatest external assistance is needed in a crisis, there is often low capacity to assess this accessibility and to communicate that information to those who need it in a fast-changing environment. This talk will discuss the challenges in tackling this lack of information during the 2008 hurricanes in Haiti using a rapidly deployed GIS and mainstream basic mapping tools while adhering to the UNSDIT standards. The potential of recently developed tools to a crisis such as this will also be addressed.

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Permalink Reply by Luke Beckman on September 22, 2009 at 10:36pm

Name: Luke Beckman
Title: GeoChat and group collaboration to enhance community resilience
Description: How do we enhance community resilience at a time when global communities are increasingly becoming more fragile and vulnerable? InSTEDD's GeoChat is a tool that is designed to bring multiple communication platforms together with a focus on citizens who are using basic technologies. It was designed in line with InSTEDD's global strategic goals- improving event detection and response. It is being used heavily in the health sector, and is just beginning to see use in disasters. I will focus on how the tool is currently deployed as well as how we plan to scale it up in order to link multiple communities together both inside and outside the U.S.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Lanclos on September 30, 2009 at 2:50pm

Name: Ryan Lanclos, ESRI
Proposed title: The Common Operating Picture for Crisis Management
5-sentence description:
This presentation will describe how GIS technology can enable a comprehensive common operating picture that supports the entire crisis management workflow including:
1. Data Management (access, storage and management of relevant data)
2. Planning and Analysis (the capability to understand vulnerability and develop a high level of preparedness for mitigation and response)
3. Situational Awareness (the capability to enable and sustain comprehensive situational awareness)
4. Mobil field operations (the ability to extend the COP into the field to maintain current and accurate situational awareness by all stakeholders in crisis management)

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Permalink Reply by Brian Doherty on October 8, 2009 at 3:47am

Proposed Title: Integrating Event Detection, Analysis and Response: The GlobeSec Approach

Description: The Global Security and Crisis Management unit of the Joint Research Centre in Ispra has been developing products in the area of Crisis Information Management and in Open Source Text Information Mining and Analysis. This presentation will detail the emerging platform for integrating these themes into practical applications of benefit to the Humanitarian community.

The CriTech action within GlobeSec has a track record in providing modular applications to support information sharing, alerting, mapping and response. Applications are developed using the DotNetNuke open source CMS. Recently, an initiative has been undertaken to provide a closer integration of the 'state of the art' information mining provided by the OPTIMA action with this platform to allow the specification, early warning and subsequent management of events in a unified manner.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Meier on October 11, 2009 at 2:11pm

Session 1-----------------------

Mikel Maron – Hacking OpenStreetMap, Paper, and SMS for Crisis Mapping
Jeffrey Warren – Cartagen and SMS Mapping
David Kobia – Open Source Development & Crisis Mapping Challenges
Peter van der Windt – La Voix des Kivus
Luke Beckman – GeoChat and Group Collaboration for Community Resilience
Justnya Zander – Rapid Disaster Response: Methodology and Tools
Robert Kirkpatrick – The Emergency Information System
Kalev Leetaru – Automated Crisis Mapping
Brian Doherty – Integrating Event Detection, Analysis and Response
Vicky Lloveras – The Peace Portal
Robert Soden – Drupal as a Crisis Mapping Platform
Einar Bjorgo – CrisisSat: UN Use of Satellite Imagery During Crises
Lars Bromley – Satellite Imagery and Mapping Products for Conflict Response
Dennis King – Africa: Conflicts without Borders
John Sulik – Crisis Mapping Analysis of the Darfur Conflict


Session 2-----------------------

Margunn Indreboe Alshaikh – Crisis Mapping and Recovery in Sudan
Michael Graham – Update on BrightEarth Humanitarian SensorWeb
Andrew Linke – Armed Conflict Location and Event Data
Adeel Khamisa – GeoTime: 3D Crisis Mapping
Michael Connor – Sharing Location Intelligence, Instantly
Jerri Husch – MDG Monitor: Analysis, Visualization, Monitoring Complexity
Ryan Lanclos – Common Operating Picture for Crisis Management
Josh Marcus – HunchLab: GeoSpatial Data Mining and Notification
JD Godchaux – Empirically Derived Fault Line Analysis
Andrew Turner – Crisis Mapping Analytics and Data Sharing in a 3lb Box
Martin Kulldorff – SaTScan: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Scan Statistics
Artur Dubrawski – Analysis of Multi-Dimension Data at Interactive Speeds
Jeffrey Villaceves – Integrated Info Management for Decision-Making

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