Introduction to Crisis Mapping

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Nona LambertDYCA Dushanbe

October 31, 2010


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Fast changing crisis situations

Need accurate information about whatshappening (who, what, where)

People in crises now have many ways tocommunicate about what is happening


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Terrible damage in the capital, government

buildings destroyed and 200,000 dead

Unprecedented response from techcommunity

Networks of groups worked together noone was in charge


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2 Hours after the earthquake


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4 Hours after the earthquake


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1 week after the earthquake


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How do you crisis map?


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I cannot over-emphasize to you what the work

of the Ushahidi/Haiti has provided.

It is saving lives every day.I wish I had time to document to you every

example, but there are too many and our

operation is moving too fast.

Marine Corps Haiti


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Long-term system for crowd-sourcing

information: www.noula.ht


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Hundreds of online volunteers translating

and mapping messages

Volunteer programmers

Volunteers with humanitarian expertise

Collaboration between many platforms

Close cooperation with responders


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Ushahidi Short-code

FrontlineSMS Agreement with telecom provider

Open source imagery Open Street Maps Google Earth, Telescience

Assistance from government or private sector Micro-tasking platform for ticketing translation

and mapping Swift River


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Lives saved Thousands of messages mapped Recognition that volunteer technologists and

local groups with ICT capacity will have abigger role in future crises

BUTMost messages were not responded to and

many didnt understand what we were doing.

If were going to work with disasters, we need tofocus on preparedness.


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The Kyrgyz referendum in June 2010:

www.save.kg

The response to the Russian wildfires in July

and August 2010:www.russian-fires.ru


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Citizen journalism and micro-blogging

Conflict/humanitarian early warning

Election monitoring

Monitoring aid initiatives

Monitoring service provision (e.g., water) Other???


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Know what you want to map and who will

use the site

Think about how crowd-sourced information

can supplement other sources

Communicate clearly to the public: Tell us

what you see not Tell us what you need

Think about security!


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Use a micro tasking platform or big

projects

Triangulate data to improve accuracy andavoid false reports(Swift River)

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Thank you!

Nona Lambert

Konpa Group

[email protected]

www.crisismappers.net

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