Crisis Informatics
Leysia PalenProject EPIC
University of Colorado Boulder
AP/Jae C Hong
PeopleResources
Information
Mass Convergence
FEMA photo/Ed Ahi
FEMA photo/Andrea Booher
FEMA photo/Booher
OFFICIAL RESPONSE
“Formal”
FEMA
FEMA
FEMA
PUBLICRESPONSE“Informal”
FEMA
USCG photo/Chief Brandon Brewer
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PUBLICRESPONSE“Informal”
OFFICIAL RESPONSE
“Formal”
PUBLICRESPONSE“Informal”
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Two Forms of Public Response:Spontaneous
Solicited
Fukushima city, "Youkubeni"(?) mall, Peace Temple store, waiting in the checkout line.There's no bread yet. As for daily items, (we are) without water, rice and plastic wrap.There used to be more than enough, an abundance, of everything you could imagine, from vegetables to fish and meat.
Self-Organization ofDigital Helper Networks
FEMA/Andrea Booher
Geeks for HaitiCrisisCamps
Humanitarian Open Street Map: Haiti
FEMA/Andrea Booher
Red River Flood Community Sandbagging Effort, 2009
FEMA/Andrea Booher
What are good disaster-basedcrowdsourcing tasks?
What’s Ahead?
FEMA/Jocelyn Augustino
Crises are Places of Innovation
Fundamental Institutional Shifts inPractice & Policy
FEMA/Howard Greenblatt
Howard Greenblatt/FEMA
Leysia Palen
FEMA/Michael RiegerColorado Waldo Canyon Fire Joint Info. Center 2012
Perilous but Promising:CS Research is Deeply Consequential
Astrodome Shelter, Katrina AftermathFEMA/Andrea Booher
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