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UK Crisis Crowdsourcing

Sara Farmer, Opencrisis.net, @opencrisis

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How Can We Use These?

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How We’ve Used Them Already

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Real-time Twitter Maps

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Citizen Reporting

• SMS 4636, 3441 etc

• Translate, geolocate, structure, categorise

• Approve

• Map

• Report

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London Tube strikes: Ushahidi

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Crisismapping Timeline

• Prepare!

• Hashtag, webpage

• CrisisMappers, Crisiscommons, Google, UN etc

• News watch, TweakTheTweet, OpenStreetMap

• SMS, ham radio

• Ushahidi, Sahana, PeopleFinder

• Translators

• Camps (typically 5 weeks)

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The Vision

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UK Vision

• Connected organisations• UK group for UK and global crises

• UK-specific preparation• ‘Everyday’ crisismapping tools• OpenStreetMaps • CrisisWiki

• Crowd information• Situation awareness and analysis• Two-way tools

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Response CommunitiesCrisisMappers• Standby Task Force• CrisisMappers.net• Ushahidi / SwiftRiver• Sahana • OpenStreetMap• Louisiana Bucket

Brigade• The Extraordinaries• CrisisCampLdn

NGO/Local Coordinators• UNOCHA - reliefweb • CDAC• Diaspora

Tool Developers• RHOK• Aid Information Challenge• ICT4Peace• Ushahidi

• OpenStreetMap• Sahana• CrisisCommons• InSTEDD

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RHOK Birmingham, December 4 th & 5 th