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Crisis Camp

Local volunteering for global crisis management and disaster relief

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Picture of Crisis Camp London in action

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Crisis Commons

Crisis Commons is a grassroots network of technology professionals, domain experts, translators and first responders around the world who are collaborating to improve technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief

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How it started…

Crisis Commons was founded in June 2009 in Washington DC by a group of technologists and communications professionals who wanted to use their skills to help prepare for and react to crisis situations – both at home and around the world

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Haiti earthquake

In January 2010 the Haiti earthquake provoked a massive volunteer movement – and camps were founded around the world

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The response to Haiti…

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What does Crisis Camp do?

• Provides people, skills & time to improve existing (technological tools) used in crisis and development scenarios

This supports:

• Organisations who are already in the field (international NGOs, local organisations)

• Organisations who already operate in the space (mapping, telecomms etc)

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What Crisis Camp has helped with• Crisis responses: Quakes in Haiti, Chile,

China, US Oil Spill, and now floods in Pakistan.

• Crisis tools: Ushahidi, Open Street Map, Sahana, People Finder, Tweak the Tweet, translation and 50 other projects

• Crisis information: UNOCHA, CDAC

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Worldwide CrisisCamps…

Iceland

Paris

Bogota Argentina

Austin

Brooklyn

CalgaryBoston

Chicago

Istanbul

Boulder/Denver

Los Angeles

Northern California

Miami

New York City

New Orleans

Pittsburgh

PortlandTorontoSeattle

Silicon Valley

Washington DC

Santa Barbara

Rochester

London

*Virtual working

Cambridge

Peru

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A typical Crisis Camp…

• Saturdays – 10am-5pm London– 1pm-7pm Paris

• Once a month (more often in a crisis)• Coordinated by core team• Sign up for the day – or just turn up• Work on projects…

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Volunteer skills…

Everyone is welcome – skills that come in handy:

•Programming•Telecommunications•Mapping•User Experience•Communications & PR•Translation

•Local knowledge•Relief work experience•IT project management•Facilitation and admin•Making tea!

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How organisations request help

• Organisations can request support from Crisis Camp – either generally or from a specific camp

• The request needs to be reviewed, and a crisis camp project manager assigned

• This project manager can be from any camp (project managers are managed centrally)

• The project may then be run by one specific camp, or responsibility for the work may be spread across camps

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How volunteers get involved…

• Sign up

• Turn up

• Take on specific responsibilities or just offer skills as they are needed

• Turn up in person or work virtually

• Spread the word amongst their own networks and peers

• Make new friends and colleagues!

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Tools you need to know about

• CrisisCommons main page

• CrisisCommons wiki

• Openstreetmap

• Ushahidi

• Sahana

• People Finder

• Tweak the Tweet

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Crisiscommons.org

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The future of Crisis Camp…

• Crisis Camp is developing...

• … you get to decide where it is going…

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Resources & Contacts

• http://crisiscommons.org/• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Main_Page

• #crisiscampuk #crisiscampldn #crisiscampcambs

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Things to Remember• It’s not “us and them” anymore, it’s “us and us”

• You can help - or hinder - from anywhere. Your choice:• Getting the right information to the right people at the right time saves

lives• Overwhelming people with information doesn’t

• Sometimes your tech skills can help people you’ll never meet, immediately and in ways you couldn’t imagine

• Sometimes it takes longer, but it’s no less valuable