sinsai.info - how open collaboration helps disaster-affected people

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

http://sinsai.info/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

http://sinsai.info

http://sinsai.info

Hal Seki (@hal_sk)

CEO of Georepublic Japan

Managing director of sinsai.info

Geo developer

OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan(NPO)

Cirius Technologies, inc.


Mar.11th 2011

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Mar.11th 2011


• More than 14,000 people were killed.

• There are still another 13,000 people missing.




Infrastructure was disrupted





Infrastructure was disrupted


• Roads were completely disrupted.

• Electricity and cell-phone towers were washed away.

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




• except disaster affected area.

Internet worked fine


• except disaster affected area.

Internet worked fine

• I thought there should be something I could do.


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


Started two activities

Crisis Mapping

Collecting Incident Reports


Sinsai.info was deployed after 4 hours

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

with #tohokueq ...


sinsai means

震災Earthquake Disaster

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How it worksPeople submit

incident reports

Mail Twitter

sinsai.info(WebForm) Websites

Moderators collect/moderate reports

Moderators


Report looks like this


Report looks like thisWe need help! We are stuck in

isolation at Akasaka hospital and getting suffer. Please spread this

information to the others.


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

...


You can see them on map


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)


Usage


•Over 10,000 reports

Usage



• 1,000,000+ PV in one month

Usage




• 650,000+ Visits

Usage




• 650,000+ Visits

• 500,000+ Unique Visitors

Usage




• 650,000+ Visits

• 500,000+ Unique Visitors

•Accessed from Sendai the most

Usage


Why we could collect so much reports?


Twitter


•We focused to Twitter feed.

Twitter



•High penetration rate (20M+)

Twitter




•It solved “Cold Start Problem”.

Twitter




•It solved “Cold Start Problem”.

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

Twitter


Why we could launch it so quickly?


• We used Ushahidi, open source crisis mapping platform.

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


Four open spiritsOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global

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Open SourceOpen Source boosts up our speed.

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global






Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global


We started up sinsai.info quickly.





Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global



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





Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global



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

We could use existing manuals.




Open dataOpen Source

Open Data encourages mash ups.

Open Collaboration

Open to Global





Open collaborationOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration aggregates various

Open to Global


data sources.





Open Data


Open to Global


data sources.

XML feeds





Open Data


Open to Global


data sources.

XML feeds

Blog feeds




Open to GlobalOpen Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Open to Global leads us to repay


favor to global community.





Open Data

Open Collaboration




Update source code





Open Data

Open Collaboration




Update source code

Send plugins we created





Open Data

Open Collaboration




Update source code

Share our lessons learned

Send plugins we created




Want to help us?


Things to help us

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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.sinsai.info/ushahidi/page/index/6#english

http://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/page/index/6#english

http://www.google.com/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html



What’s next?

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What’s next?• We are going to:






- run sinsai.info sustainable







- support pro bono activities of engineers








- encouraging Gov 2.0 activities








- encouraging Gov 2.0 activities

• Any advise, idea, funding are welcome!





Thank you for your time

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