Tech Community Sitrep (Jan 22, 2010)

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Tech community sitrep – haiti 22 jan 2010

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Technology Community Sit Rep: 22 Jan, 2010
Prepared by Luke Beckman, National Response Liaison, InSTEDD, +1-650-740-5853, Beckman@instedd.org
*** If info not on SitRep, it may be on prev. ones since I want to include the newest, most current efforts without making the SitRep too long, or I don’t know about the info***
Coordination is key. We must continue to work together and do a better job of it every day.

Great Aggregators
• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/index.php?title=.php&title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake
• http://inventory.ict4peace.org/Haiti+Earthquake+-+January+2010
• http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/earthquakes/resources.html
• http://hypercube.telascience.org/haiti/
• http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/
o Sahana looking for translation support http://translate.hfoss.eu/wiki/Translation
o Collaboration and to-do lists posted here #sahana irc.freenode.net for collab. Our TODO is hosted at http://bit.ly/sahana-haiti-todo

Ushahidi
o http://haiti.ushahidi.com/
o Real time situation room http://sitroom.ushahididev.com/
o To submit online reports http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports
o How to volunteer http://wiki.ushahidi.com/doku.php?id=4636instructions

Open Street Maps (OSM)
o http://haiti.openstreetmap.nl/ Best map of the situation on the ground I know of. Hundreds of volunteers working around the clock doing mapping on the ground.
• US SOUTHCOM online civ/mil coordination community. http://community.apan.org/
• In Haiti? Text 4636 (If outside of Haiti: 447624802524) on Digicel with your location and need. Report emergencies and missing persons .
o Include as much location information as possible.

Crisis Camps on Saturday

• Atlanta – Location Ignition Alley, Date/Time TBD, @jonathannelson @brendanlim @ignitionalley @mikeschinkel @netsurfqueen
• Boston – Location ITA Software 141 Portland Street Cambridge, @melmaxmcd @macotech, Saturday January 23, 9-4 pm, Sign up to attend
• Boulder/Denver – Saturday January 23, 10am-5pm MST, Location TBD Register Here and Sign Up for the Google Group
• Washington, DC – Saturday, 1/23, NPR HQ (635 Massachusetts Ave NW) 9am-6pm. Register
• Los Angeles – Saturday, 1/23/10, 10am-10pm, UC Irvine. Virtual LA camp: ongoing Skype chat / Register / @chadcat / @CrisisCampLA
• London – London LKL Workshop at London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QS – 10am-5pm. More details here:Crisis Camp Haiti – London LKL Workshop
• Miami / South Florida – Location: Miami Herald bldg, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132, Saturday, January 23, 2010 from 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PT). Website / Register to attend.
• New Orleans, LA – LaunchPadNOLA, 643 Magazine, New Orleans, LA, January 23rd, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Registration here. @crisiscampnola
• Northern California – Yahoo! Sunnyvale Campus, 701 1st Avenue Building C Sunnyvale, CA 94089, date, January 23, 12pm-10pm. Register to attend.
• Portland – NedSpace Old Town, 117 NW 5th, January 23rd, maybe 24th, 1pm – ?, @crisiscampPDX crisiscampPDX@gmail.com
• Seattle area – Location Shorewood Apartments Pavilion, 9011 W. Shorewood Dr, Mercer Island, WA 98050, Saturday January 23, Time 9am-5pm, Register here @crisiscampSEA @melody_s @wesleyzhao **sponsored by Garlic Jims
• Silicon Valley http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Main_Page yahoo Sunnyvale Jan 23 12-10pm
• Toronto -CrisisCamp TO – Jan 24th Organization Kick- off meeting University of Toronto Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4 (room B024) Canada@crisiscampTO @HeatherLeson

Lessons Learned

• Five major problems we see emerging in no particular order
o Decision-makers on the ground still do not have access to accurate, real-time data. That may be because of firewalls, lack of bandwidth, people are unaware these resources exist, the command structure of an org does not allow people to use open sources, or the decision makers do not want that data.
o Poor supply logistics at the airport. There needs to be a streamlined process moving aid to those who need it most. Red tape does not justify people dying.
o Much of the population is leaving PAP. Do we want to move supplies to the people or preposition the supplies and bring the people to them once structure and supply chains are created?
o We need to weave relationships with people who are now arriving on the ground and those who have been there since day one. We cannot afford to lose the on-the-ground the knowledge that has been built up.
o We need to immediately begin to rebuild local infrastructure at all levels and re-stimulate the Haitian economy.

People Finder Update

• http://haiticrisis.appspot.com
• Haiticrisis will soon be syncing with the American Red Cross’ Disaster Safe site, developed after Katrina. https://disastersafe.redcross.org/
Sahana
• http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/
Mapping NGOs in Action
• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/index.php?title=.php&title=Mapping_NGOs_in_Action
Health
• Alabama Incident Management System has stood up a deployment for Haiti that is starting to be integrated with other platforms
o http://h.aimslive.org/AIMS/UI/Response/Maps.aspx
o Also stood up a Need/Have medical system
• http://h.xchlive.org
• Medical Common Operating Picture http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/11255
OCHA Information from 22 Jan
• OCHA Situation Report #10: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/retrieveattachments?openagent&shortid=MUMA-7ZX776&file=Full_Report.pdf
• Contact Lists: http://ocha.unog.ch/ochafileupload/upload.aspx?publicID=u22011004215P7loCkq7Ih
o Cluster Coordinator & General Contact List (in one XLS file over multiple work sheets)
o IFRC Contact List
o UNDP Contact List
o Government Contact List
• MAP: OCHA Haiti: Earthquake Affected Areas (as of 21 Jan 2010): http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/fullmaps_am.nsf/luFullMap/7CC4E9A64261EB7C492576B3000DD6D5/$File/map.pdf?OpenElement
• MAP: Map Action – Field Hospital and Temporary Settlements: http://ocha.unog.ch/ochafileupload/upload.aspx?publicID=u22011004215P7loCkq7Ih

Ground Truth

News
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122834576
• Crisis Commons now has Simple Things Anyone Can Do listed on its wiki
• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Simple_Tasks_Anyone_Can_Do
o It includes screencasts and step-by-step instructions to get internet novices up to speed on how to use OSM or upload data to USHAHIDI. This approach allows the technical community to leverage the interest and compassion of the larger internet community .
• Great situational awareness tool http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html?hpt=C1

Mapping

• The Fletcher School crisis mapping team needs five iMacs to continue supporting Coast Guard and Search and Rescue operations
• To put this map onto your GPS follow these instructions:
o Download the map at
o Rename the file to gmapsupp.img
o Plug the GPS unit in “mass storage mode” (Setup->Interface->USB Mass Storage)
o Put the file gmapsupp.img in the Garmin directory (create the directory if it does not exist)
o Unplug the GPS unit
• High Resolution (15cm) Google imagery is now available for Port-au-Prince
• (acquired 17 Jan) . It is burned into the basemap in Google Maps (confirmed) and basemap in Google Earth (unconfirmed).
o http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-imagery-of-port-au-prince.html
o KML Version http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/haiti/Haiti-Earthquake-nl.kml
o Most of this imagery available I available for download, for non-commercial use related to emergency relief. http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/imagery.html
• Google Repository http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/geoeye.html
• There will be continual updates made as new data becomes available in OpenStreetMap.
• Haiti view of OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=18.72&lon=-72.68&zoom=8&layers=B000FTF
• ESRI Overview of all GIS http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/earthquakes/resources.html
• Early collaboration around all data sources http://geonode.org/
• Crisis Commons Wiki http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake

For coordination/collaboration questions or issues, please contact Luke Beckman, National Response Liaison, InSTEDD +16507405853, Skype: lukebeckman, Email: Beckman@instedd.org.
Coordination also is ongoing in conjunction with STAR-TIDES (linwells@gmail.com, +1202-436-6354) and The National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (niusr@cox.net)