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Sinsai.info is the crisis information live map platform for aggregating incident reports of the great earthquake in Japan. http://sinsai.info/ This presentation shows an overview of sinsai.info and explain how open collaboration platform helps disaster-affected people.

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How open collaboration helps disaster-affected people 22/Apr/2011

http://sinsai.info/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Hal Seki (@hal_sk)

CEO of Georepublic Japan

Managing director of sinsai.info

Geo developer

OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan(NPO)

Cirius Technologies, inc.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Mar.11th 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5541815267/in/set-72157626305323978

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Mar.11th 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5541815267/in/set-72157626305323978

• More than 14,000 people were killed.

• There are still another 13,000 people missing.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Infrastructure was disrupted

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5549191112/in/set-72157626305323978

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Infrastructure was disrupted

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5549191112/in/set-72157626305323978

• Roads were completely disrupted.

• Electricity and cell-phone towers were washed away.

• Cell-phones were useless more than 24hrs even in Tokyo.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

• except disaster affected area.

Internet worked fine

Saturday, April 23, 2011

• except disaster affected area.

Internet worked fine

• I thought there should be something I could do.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

The beginning

From: Hiroshi Miura (Director of OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan)

I think it’s time to start taking relief action to Japan Earthquake.

Let’s do anything we can do with foreign help although we haven’t got enough preparation.

Join to Skype chat if you can go online.Saturday, April 23, 2011

Started two activities

Crisis Mapping

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Started two activities

Crisis Mapping

Collecting Incident Reports

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Sinsai.info was deployed after 4 hours

Crisis information aggregation site “Ushahidi” is launched. You can report by tweeting

with #tohokueq ...

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

sinsai means

震災Earthquake Disaster

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5545774946/in/photostream/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

How it worksPeople submit

incident reports

Mail Twitter

sinsai.info(WebForm) Websites

Moderators collect/moderate reports

Moderators

Saturday, April 23, 2011

How it worksPeople submit

incident reports

Mail Twitter

sinsai.info(WebForm) Websites

Moderators collect/moderate reports

Moderators

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Report looks like this

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Report looks like thisWe need help! We are stuck in

isolation at Akasaka hospital and getting suffer. Please spread this

information to the others.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Report looks like thisWe need help! We are stuck in

isolation at Akasaka hospital and getting suffer. Please spread this

information to the others.

I made a phone-call to Self-Defence force and they said they would go help ASAP

...

Saturday, April 23, 2011

You can see them on map

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Running by volunteers

• Main:Open Street Map Foundation

Japan (NPO)

• Volunteers (Active)- Moderators:about 40 people(increasing)- Developers:about 30 people

- Translators:about 5 people

• Supporting companies- 15 companies (Amazon, Yahoo, NTT, NTT Data)

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Usage

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•Over 10,000 reports

Usage

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•Over 10,000 reports

• 1,000,000+ PV in one month

Usage

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•Over 10,000 reports

• 1,000,000+ PV in one month

• 650,000+ Visits

Usage

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•Over 10,000 reports

• 1,000,000+ PV in one month

• 650,000+ Visits

• 500,000+ Unique Visitors

Usage

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•Over 10,000 reports

• 1,000,000+ PV in one month

• 650,000+ Visits

• 500,000+ Unique Visitors

•Accessed from Sendai the most

Usage

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Why we could collect so much reports?

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Twitter

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•We focused to Twitter feed.

Twitter

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•We focused to Twitter feed.

•High penetration rate (20M+)

Twitter

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•We focused to Twitter feed.

•High penetration rate (20M+)

•It solved “Cold Start Problem”.

Twitter

Saturday, April 23, 2011

•We focused to Twitter feed.

•High penetration rate (20M+)

•It solved “Cold Start Problem”.

•After our site became famous, direct reports were coming.

Twitter

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Why we could launch it so quickly?

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

• We used Ushahidi, open source crisis mapping platform.

• It was used in several countries, New Zealand, Haithi...

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Four open spiritsOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open SourceOpen Source boosts up our speed.

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open SourceOpen Source boosts up our speed.

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

We started up sinsai.info quickly.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open SourceOpen Source boosts up our speed.

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

We started up sinsai.info quickly.

We didn’t need to build work flow from scratch.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open SourceOpen Source boosts up our speed.

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

We started up sinsai.info quickly.

We didn’t need to build work flow from scratch.

We could use existing manuals.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open collaborationOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration aggregates various

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

data sources.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open collaborationOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration aggregates various

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

data sources.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open collaborationOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration aggregates various

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

data sources.

XML feeds

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open collaborationOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration aggregates various

Open to Global

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

data sources.

XML feeds

Blog feeds

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open to GlobalOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global leads us to repay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

favor to global community.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open to GlobalOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global leads us to repay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

favor to global community.

Update source code

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open to GlobalOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global leads us to repay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

favor to global community.

Update source code

Send plugins we created

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Open to GlobalOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global leads us to repay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

favor to global community.

Update source code

Share our lessons learned

Send plugins we created

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Want to help us?

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Things to help us

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5572695671/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Things to help us

•Contribution to sinsiai.infoWe need Developers, Moderators, Translators and Reporters etc..You can apply from herehttp://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/page/index/6#english

•Donation to Japanhttp://www.google.com/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5572695671/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

What’s next?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

What’s next?• We are going to:

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Saturday, April 23, 2011

What’s next?• We are going to:

- run sinsai.info sustainable

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

What’s next?• We are going to:

- run sinsai.info sustainable

- support pro bono activities of engineers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

What’s next?• We are going to:

- run sinsai.info sustainable

- support pro bono activities of engineers

- encouraging Gov 2.0 activities

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

What’s next?• We are going to:

- run sinsai.info sustainable

- support pro bono activities of engineers

- encouraging Gov 2.0 activities

• Any advise, idea, funding are welcome!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Thank you for your time

Feedback welcomeTwitter/Skye: hal_skhal@georepublic.co.jp

http://sinsai.info/@sinsai_info_en

Saturday, April 23, 2011

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