TYPHOON HAIYAN / YOLANDA (PHILIPPINES)
ISCRAM 2014
Gisli Olafsson
Emergency Response Director
@gislio

NETHOPEEMERGENCYRESPONSE
Typhoon Haiyan/Yoldanda – 8 November 2013

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NetHope Member NGO Office Locations

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NetHope Members Active
Member Activities Member Activities
ActionAid
BY International Federation of Red Cross/ Red
Crescent (IFRC)
BSQ(hY
AmeriCares
h International Medical Corps (IMC)
h
CARE
BS Islamic Relief
(
Catholic Relief Services
BS MercyCorps
BS(hY
ChildFund International
Y Oxfam International
BShY
Christian Aid
h Plan International
BSY
Concern Worldwide
( Relief International
h
Direct Relief
h Save the Children
ShY
Habitat for Humanity
B SOS Children’s Villages
Y
Heifer International
Y World Vision
BY
B shelter S water Q supplies ( ICT assessments h medical Y food / families / women & children

NETHOPEEMERGENCYRESPONSE
NetHope’s Response
- 3 VSATs installed in partnership with
BT
- 6 additional VSATs installed in
partnerships with NetHope members
- 105 satellite phones handed out
- 14 BGANs handed out
- 300 laptops handed out
- 200 VOIP headsets handed out
- 50 video cameras handed out
- ICT assessments performed in East
Samar, North Cebu, and Panay Island
- ETC cluster and NetHope community
working as one

COORDINATEDICTRESPONSE
ETC Services

COORDINATEDICTRESPONSE
Emergency Telecom Cluster Coordination

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ICT Assessment Methodology
• Initial Assessment (First days)
• Based on secondary data sources
• Mobile operator data
• Social media reports
• Media reports
• Response organization information
• Used to determine the initial scope of the ICT infrastructure
damage
• Rapid Field Assessments (First 1-2 weeks)
• Field trips to affected areas
• Visual surveying of affected damage to infrastructure
• Interviewing of key stakeholders
• Connectivity assessments
• Needs of response organizations, affected population
captured.

COORDINATEDICTRESPONSE
ICT Assessments – things to consider
• Consider leveraging more crowd-sourced information
• Collaborate with the infrastructure operators
• Use network infrastructure data
• Don’t forget power, fiber, etc.

COORDINATEDICTRESPONSE
Providing Connectivity

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

INFORMATIONMANAGEMENT

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Cluster Assessments

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Cluster Assessments

INFORMATIONMANAGEMENT
Digital Volunteers

INFORMATIONMANAGEMENT
Digital Volunteers

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Digital Volunteers

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Digital Volunteers

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INFORMATIONMANAGEMENT

INFORMATIONMANAGEMENT
Good – Bad - Ugly
• More information being shared amongst organizations
• More coordinated use of digital volunteers
• More joint assessments within humanitarian community
• Lack of data standards slowing down use of shared data
• Extensive data processing needed to use shared data
• Lot of duplication of efforts
• Lack of coordination with government response
• Lack of involvement with local community
• Lack of attention to areas outside of CNN focus area

INFORMATIONMANAGEMENT
Way Forward
• We need data standards for core emergency response data
• We need easy ways of sharing our data in machine readable
format
• We need more coordinated information management
efforts
• We need to work closely with affected governments
• We need to build information management capacity in
disaster prone developing countries
• We need to focus on entire affected area, not just where
media is
• We need to involve the affected community in the
information management effort
• We need new ways of funding innovation and research in
the humanitarian space.