…that you will help build a global system to detect each new disease or disaster as quickly as it emerges…

InSTEDD Overview Public launch in January 2008.

501(3)c non-profit based in Palo Alto, CA

Initial funding from Google.org, now funded by Rockefeller Foundation, John Doerr, and others.

Iterative design-centric development culture

Functions as an “innovation lab” for developing novel approaches to challenges in the field.

From a faint signal to collective action

Merge & AnalyzeMerge & Analyze

Media

Journals

ICS Operations

Collective understandingEvent CharacterizationResponse initiationRealtime feedback

Immediate analysis & Decision making capacity

Peer- to –peer information sharing and collaboration

Informed collective action

Realtime feedback and coordination

Proactive education & preparation

A few of the challenges…

Laptop fromLTC Susanna Roughton, RAMCPhysician-EpidemiologistBritish Royal ArmyAz Zubair, Iraq - 2003

Our environments are harsh.

Tough environmentsdrive innovation.

Platform Development StrategyInnovate only where we must

Gather requirements in the field.

Solicit ideas from a wide audience.

Repurpose existing tools with potential for humanitarian use.

Partner with key public and private sector organizations.

Build wherever gaps remain.

Integrate into the InSTEDD Platform.

Iterate…

AgileDevelopment

Process

InSTEDD Field LabParticipatory ethnography meets natural selection

Humanitarian field practitioners work in extreme conditions.

Our tools have to work where they work.

So…we go to the field.

We learn by failing fast and failing often. In the end, we hope our tools will be more reliable, easier to use, and closer to what is needed.

Steung Treng Province, northern CambodiaFebruary 2008

If I can make it here…

Mesh4x: Applications and Libraries for a Diverse Ecosystem

Open source implementation of FeedSync architecture, an open spec for data meshes

Synchronize between applications and devices

Work online or offline. Redundant, standards-based, socially neutral Currently in Java and C# Latest adapters: Hibernate, KML. More on

the way. HTTP Sync Service at http://sync.instedd.org. Hosted on Google Code, see

http://mesh4x.org

Cyclone Nargis Response

Virtual instance of Sahana hosted at https://sahana.instedd.org

Currently coordinating localization into Burmese. 98% complete.

Have accelerated release schedule for GeoChat and KML sync service, based on requests from users in the region.