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Azamat Abdymomunov Russia. August. 2010. Part 2: Wildfires.

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Added by Azamat Abdymomunov on August 24, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Azamat Abdymomunov Russia. August. 2010. Part 1: Grain.

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Added by Azamat Abdymomunov on August 21, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Andrew Wiseman Looking for a web GIS developer

My office, the US Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives, is looking for a web GIS developer to help us do more web 2.0 things. Are you looking, or do you know anybody who's looking?

The Office of Transition Initiatives works in countries in political transition, like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uganda, Colombia and the like. The person would be part of the IT/GIS team… Continue

Added by Andrew Wiseman on August 5, 2010 at 11:40am — No Comments

jen ziemke IRIN: Kenya SOS by SMS

NAIROBI, 3 August 2010 (IRIN) - In a nondescript room on the 14th floor of a Nairobi office block, the words “hate speech” appear on a computer screen next to the name of a prominent politician, with location, a telephone number and buttons marked “Not verified” and “Follow-up”. Another message reads: “If you think peace is expensive, try violence!” Yet another says: “Plz help us. A cert… Continue

Added by jen ziemke on August 3, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a developing country of the South-East Asia. It is suffering froma lot of problems starting from the political turbulances to natural disasters and from a vulnerable economy to a corruption-prone bureaucracy. It is one of the most densely populated area of the world. The population of this country is more than 150 million and the literacy rate is below 50%. Most of those literate people know little beyond how write and read their own names. The electrical power supply is not yet av… Continue

Added by Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed on July 25, 2010 at 6:56am — 2 Comments

Patrick Meier On the Humanitarian-Technology Divide and What to Do About It

Cross posted on iRevolution

It was Larry Brilliant's TED talk over four years ago that first got me hooked. He spoke about the technology used by the Global Public Health Information Network (… Continue

Added by Patrick Meier on July 24, 2010 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Jose Ravano Reaching out to the tech community...

Glancing through bios, I noticed that a good chunk of the members here are software and technology folk. I also sadly noticed there aren't a whole lot of humanitarian practitioners in the group, at least on the international side. I’m a responder and I apologize for the less than stellar participation here of folks like me.

Some of us though, have gotten together to form Humanitarian Accoord--an initiative to develop technology to improve what perhaps may be the most challenging elemen… Continue

Added by Jose Ravano on July 23, 2010 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Webconomist Political Crises & Pulling The Plug

The primary communications tool used in the Orange Revolution" in the Ukraine was the mobile phone, SMS/txt messaging. SMS played the vital role in organizing and rallying citizens. The following year in "elections" in Belarus, the government, having seen what happened in the Ukraine, shut down the cellular network. In Shanghai, police used SMS messaging to warn citizens to stay away from anti-Japan protests. In Cambodia, during governing council elections, mobile networks were shut down for two… Continue

Added by Webconomist on May 28, 2010 at 9:23am — 1 Comment

Anne Rolfes What's Going On

If only Marvin Gaye could have seen all this! Better for him that he's missing it.

It is only fitting that my last post ended before diving off into the subject of populating the map. This activity is all encompassing, especially if the goal is to get local people to tell their stories. That is our goal - a map that is reflective of what's happening on the ground along the Gulf Coast.

One of the most inspiring aspects of Ushahidi and Crisis Mapping is the idea that regular peop… Continue

Added by Anne Rolfes on May 12, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

Anne Rolfes "This is the second time in five years I've eaten from a Red Cross truck...

and I don't like it." So said an oysterman to me today.

First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico?

These ar… Continue

Added by Anne Rolfes on May 3, 2010 at 1:38am — No Comments

Anne Rolfes Waiting for the Oil

http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
(504) 27 27 OIL

If only if this were Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, we could enjoy a quiet couple of uneventful hours and the oil would never come. The entire Gulf Coast is bracing for the oil, and the scene in Venice, Louisiana, is surreal. Waiting, waiting. Our Oil Spill Crisis Map Team was down there today, and this was the scene:

International / national press poised wit… Continue

Added by Anne Rolfes on May 1, 2010 at 11:13pm — No Comments

Anne Rolfes Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Hello Everyone,

My name is Anne Rolfes, and I am new to Crisis Mappers though by this afternoon we hope to have a Gulf Coast Oil Spill Crisis Map set up.

We need help, advice, etc. Tulane students have helped us to get the site up and running, but our tech contact is leaving for Thailand. We would love the benefit of your experience. This is NOT our final address, but to see what we've got, check us out - http://ushahidi.labucketbr… Continue

Added by Anne Rolfes on April 30, 2010 at 11:27am — No Comments

Jean-Matthieu Buton SAR satellite imagery of Louisiana Oil Spill

Here is an ENVISAT ASAR satellite imagery of the Louisiana Oil Spill.
The image has been acquired today 29 April at 03:53 UTC



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Added by Jean-Matthieu Buton on April 29, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Jean-Matthieu Buton Open Street Map 2008 : A year of Edits

An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008.
OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007

This animation was produced by itoworld.com. The music is 'Open Electro' by Vincent Girès.
ITO World provide free online support software for OpenStreetMap and also provide online mapping services to organisations and individuals.

Developed… Continue

Added by Jean-Matthieu Buton on April 28, 2010 at 6:56am — No Comments

Tasha Hammond I think that crisis mapping is important in any business and especially in the short term health ins…

I think that crisis mapping is important in any business and especially in the short term health insurance sector. They have to analyse the risks of crisis in determining the premium for ones plan. I am wondering what other types of business this is important for? Continue

Added by Tasha Hammond on April 5, 2010 at 11:33am — No Comments

Justyna Zander Empathy-driven Design

Thinking about Emotional Intelligence in relation to the technological aspects of our world I stumbled over the publication on "Empathy and experience in Human Computer Interaction" by Peter Wright and… Continue

Added by Justyna Zander on March 31, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Justyna Zander Computation of Things for Sustainability

As promised in the previous blog I would like to spend some more time on Computation of Things (CoTh) for Sustainable Development.


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Added by Justyna Zander on March 27, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Jean-Matthieu Buton Complete Haiti damage atlas produced.

The Haiti building damage atlas was produced by the United Nations’ Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)/Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the World Bank in support to the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) process led by the Government of Haiti.

For each main city a separate… Continue

Added by Jean-Matthieu Buton on March 23, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Yishay Mor Burundi Election Warning Project: launching friendsobserve.org

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Added by Yishay Mor on March 21, 2010 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Timothy Goddard Depiction Mapping Webcasts

Depiction, Inc., makers of Depiction mapping, simulation & collaboration software is going to be doing the CrisisMappers webcast on April 7, and the details for that should be going up on the GeoTime website soon.

To give you some (very) brief background, Depiction is designed to be a lightweight, affordable and easy-to-use program that puts powerful GIS, simulation & collaboration tools in the hands of ordinary people. Our primary market… Continue

Added by Timothy Goddard on March 16, 2010 at 1:47pm — 5 Comments

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