BOSTON SITUATION ROOM: JAN 21 – META-UPD…
BOSTON SITUATION ROOM: JAN 21 – META-UPDATE
*Biggest question right now is sustainability of Ushahidi’s involvement in Haiti, even before issues regarding closing the feedback loop and demonstrating success stories. We’re hitting breaking point again on available human resources, the team is stretched. We need to outsource a lot more of the Situation Room’s work; planning to leverage the Tufts undergrad community for a major training on Saturday. We also need to leverage Crisis Camp Boston in a big way.
*There was a lot of frustration (more exhaustion) among the SMS Team today with technical glitches even though they’ve scaled up. That said, they’re very happy to report that when the tech stuff runs smoothly, they can do a super job.
*We’re going to leverage the Tufts undergraduate community and get their help; hopefully a training on Saturday morning. If we can’t use this community to outsource 90% of the media monitoring, then we need to make some important decisions. Either we stop media monitoring and focus only on SMS or we decide to stop operations at a given date, eg, Feb 1st.
*I’d like to propose that Ory and Erik join us for a conference call on Sunday with the team leaders