3. January 12, 2010: Haiti
Information Ecosystem Today
How can we make use of all the information out
there in crisis response?
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
7. Background
● Launched at the ICCM 2010 in Boston
● Online Community for Live Crisis Mapping
● Over 800 members from all over the world
● Only working with Open Source Data and
Applications
● Decentralized horizontal network of volunteers
acting on the base of a code of conduct
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
8. Teams & Workflows
Crisis Mapping:
Collect Information
Analyze Information
Categorize Information
Viusalize Information
Cowdsourcing Applications
Response
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
9. Teams & Workflows
● Volunteers get trained
● Each volunteer is
member of at least one
team
● Coordination during
deployments via email, Cowdsourcing Applications
googledocs, skype and
TF-website
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
10. Tools we use
● Ushahidi
General Crowdsourcing- and
mapping platform
● Tomnod
Crowdsourced analyzing of
satellite images
Cowdsourcing Applications
● Crisis Tracker
● New social-media
crowdmapping platform
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
11. Past Activities
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
12. Past Activities
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
13. Challenges and Opportunities
● How to verify crowdsourced information?
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● Testing new tools
● Meet professionals, broaden background
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
14. Current & Upcoming Events
Testing the Crisis Tracker platform
South Sudan Mapping Activity
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
15. The Standby Volunteer Task Force
Our answer?
STANDBY TASK FORCE
To become a member apply at
http://blog.standbytaskforce.com
or contact join@standbytaskforce.com
And follow us on Twitter: @SBTaskForce
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Introducing the Standby Volunteer Taskforce || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012