Situation Report: Boston, Jan 23 ***Jaro…
Situation Report: Boston, Jan 23
***Jaroslav has accepted the offer to represent Ushahidi in Haiti. The plan is for him to leave no later than February 1st.
***CrisisCamp: Crisis camp people are awesome. Made quick find GPS tool. Tells you coordinate, works with a variety of tools and OSM. Set up SMS management tools, can triage. Also search SMS function. OSM to continue working with us for a week. We will feed in these new processes to our volunteers.
***Wiki is updated. Ready go live tonight.
***SMS Report: Running smoothly. We are working backwards. We have archived the backlog of SMS before Jan 20th (will get them up later), focus on current urgent SMS. We are going to start training the 10,000 Haitians to map better in addition translate.
***Mapping/IDP: WFPs has new spreadsheets of 500 camps. We trained 10-15 people who are now very good. Total IDP camps mapped = 100.
***Volunteers: Trained over 80 new volunteers today. Geneva Situation Room going well, starting to map. London is going well, should be operational in 24 hours. Geneva and London will become European Hub and will collaborate closely in training, support, etc. Should have Portland Situation Room operational by Wednesday. We need to start focusing on retaining volunteer base and providing regular update. We need Ushahidi T-shirts to help make this new community cohesive and proud. Have Erik Hersman Skype in Live in coming days so he can interact directly with volunteers. Everyone has watched Erik’s TED talk and I’m sure that this will be a special treat for them. We need to set up and schedule shifts sooner rather than later. We will create short 2 minute videos for training purposes.
***Communications: Putting together list of NGO on the ground, lots of contacts.
***Grant writing: Team meeting tomorrow afternoon to start writing grant.