Tech Community Sitrep (Jan 22, 2010)
I’m a day behind on getting this SitRep up, my apologies.
Word Doc version:
Tech community sitrep – haiti 22 jan 2010
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Tagged: haiti RSS
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Erik Hersman
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jongos
Situation Room Swift/Africa: January 22 and 23
Swift Haiti Twitter Tracker: http://appfrica2.com/haiti/
Working on Swift Architecture document at – https://docs.google.com/a/ushahidi.com/Doc?docid=0AXtjM3UhUoCeZGZ0azVwYjdfMWdjeDc5Y2Rj&hl=en. While I will continue to work on Haiti Tracker, I feel our team’s time is better spent getting a fully realized SwiftApp done. Working on mock-ups of final Swift app. Getting new team members up to speed by breaking down all features into smaller manageable tasks.
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Erik Hersman
Ushahidi Situation Report (1/20/2010)
Dev Items:
- Reminder, please check http://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Haiti/issues for current changes/updates to the issues
- Iframe: Push changes on core to iframe (ex: http://www.haiti.com)
- Resolved items (ie, “action taken”) need to have some visual representation that that happened. Ex: I “resolved” this item and it doesn’t show up with anything on the frontend http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/view/584
- Get OSM back up on the map, even if it’s just as the + feature on the tab.
- Haiti Tracker: Integrating EDXL and PFIF into Sulsa. (Jon)
- Haiti Tracker: Migrating Haiti Tracker from Magpie to Simple Pie thanks to volunteers at Souktel. (Jon)
- API logger: To track API activities (Henry)
- API: parameter for the API to track where ( could be a webservice or thirdy party client ) a post is coming from http://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Haiti/issues#issue/19 (Henry)
- Updating the UI for “Categories” on the reports submit page (admin and front-end) [Caleb]
- Minor UI tweaks on home page (move download CSV button to top of page) [Caleb]
Non-Dev items:
- Process flow of 4636 system, a graphical diagram is needed. (Josh Nesbit)
- Heatmap blog post (Erik)
- Organizing of volunteer situation room teams for incoming reports (Patrick & Ory)
- “Resolved Issues” – putting a process and teams in place to gather reports back from the relief orgs in Haiti and map them to the issues within haiti.ushahidi.com (Ory & Patrick)
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caleb
Just updated the above post to indicate completed tasks.
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Erik Hersman
Server-side clustering and visualization.
We’re getting too many points on the map for effective use. David is instituting server-side clustering to deal with this, which should help with both site performance and general readability/usability. This isn’t live yet, but will be going up soon. We continue to tweak the UI, but it’s coming along nicely.
Here’s what it looks like when all points are selected:
Here’s what it looks like when only one sub-category is chosen:
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Erik Hersman
About the Haiti Twitter Tracker: http://appfrica2.com/haiti/
Swift/Africa – today our team is working on getting IP address and passing latitude/longitude values to the form when users submit. This will all but complete the button. In addition I’m still working on dupicate detection. Abdahalla (a volunteer) is making some minor changes to the core of Gregarius.
We need volunteers to take on any of the tasks in github: http://github.com/appfrica/haiti_tracker
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jongos
Swift User Location Services API (SULSa) Documentation http://docs.google.com/a/ushahidi.com/View?id=dftk5pb7_0fqcnhjhc
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Erik Hersman
Haiti Technology Community Situation Report (1/17/2010)
Again, thanks to the InSTEDD team for providing this technology situation report for Haiti. This is an overview of the last 24 hours worth of work within the community.
Download the Word Doc:
Haiti Technology Community Situation Report – 17 Jan 2010Read it online below:
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Eddy
This is a fine, detailed and highly specific post. Please know how appreciated that is. Keep up the great work everyone.
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Erik Hersman
Just gone over 1000 text messages into 4636, with 2/3rds deemed useful.
180 where volunteers were able to give lat / lon based on content -
Erik Hersman
Wyclef, Local Radio and the 4636 Shortcode
There has been a lot of work going on in the background to get the 4636 SMS campaign in Haiti working smoothly.
If you are in Haiti, report emergency information and location by texting free to 4636
We put together a message that will be sent out via a number of channels. We’re hoping that the first to put it out will be Wyclef at his site and Here, and also streaming live right now at CNN.com. Local radio stations are also starting to pick it up, and will start broadcasting the 4636 number shortly.
“Texting emergency needs and location information to 4636 on Digicel allows the surviving population to report issues, receive alerts and useful information and most importantly to get their emergency information to relief organizations on the ground in Haiti. These services are operated by a collaborating group of organizations including Ushahidi, InSTEDD, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Sahana and the US Dept of State and provides a channel for many response and information activities on the ground”
If you want to get the message out, say something like this:
In Haiti? Text 4636 on Digicel with your location and need. Report emergencies and missing persons.
Success Stories
People looking for success stories on http://haiti.ushahidi.com can find them here:
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/view/761
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/view/584
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/view/606
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/view/642
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/view/580
Who’s pulling the Haiti.Ushahidi.com RSS feed?
Currently we know that these orgs are using our data feed from Ushahidi.
- Red cross
- United Nations Foundation
- Plan International
- Charity Water
- Clinton Foundation
- US State Department
- International Medical Corps
- AIDG
How can you help?
By sending a local text message to 4636 or internationally at +447624802524
By sending e-mail to Haiti@ushahidi.com
On Twitter with hash tag #haiti or #haitiquake
Online at http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/submitMore news and updates on this will be coming soon.
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Erik Hersman
Ushahidi: Reports by Category
As of this morning we had 695 reports that had been approved into http://haiti.ushahidi.com. Here is the Distribution by Parent Categories:
- Urgences | Emergency 369 (34%)
- Secours | Response 331 (30%)
- Nouvelles de Personnes | Persons News 221 (21%)
- Urgences logistiques | Vital Lines 104 (9%)
- Menaces | Threats 34 (3%)
- Autre | Other 37 (3%)
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Erik Hersman
SMS 4636 and local media in Haiti
We need to get a push locally in Haiti to ensure that we get more Haitians knowledgeable about the free text messages that can be sent in via 4636. InSTEDD is doing local outreach, as is Internews.
If you have any ideas, Haiti contacts, or are working on this already, please update this post.
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Sanjana Hattotuwa
http://tnh.ht/tnhpresentation/contact.htm, http://www.lenouvelliste.com/contact/index.php, http://www.radiogalaxiehaiti.com/?page_id=13 and,
Courrier
Radio Metropole
Delmas 52, P.O. Box 62
Port-au-Prince, HaitiTel:+(509)22-46-26-26
Tel:+(509)22-46-53-35
Tel:+(509)22-49-20-21Fax:+(509)22-49-20-20
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Sanjana Hattotuwa
Erik, I’ve emailed you local radio / tv contact information. The comment moderation system here does not link multiple URLs.
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Erik Hersman
Tech Community SitRep (1/16/2010)
Courtesy of the good folks at InSTEDD, here is a comprehensive situation report on the tech communities activities through 1/16/2010.
Download it as a Word Document:
Technology Community SitRep Haiti 6 Jan 2010View it online below:
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Eddy is discussing. 
Erik Hersman
Still no SMS reports coming into http://haiti.ushahidi.com as mobile phone networks are still down. Only internet and email reports incoming.
Sanjana Hattotuwa 5:35 pm on January 24, 2010 Permalink |
Dear Eric,
You said that “Decision-makers on the ground still do not have access to accurate, real-time data.” In addition to points noted by you as to why this is the case, the format the data is published on also comes into play. One example is the hugely valuable master contact list in Haiti published yesterday by OCHA and available on the OneResponse website as a ZIP download containing a Excel 2007 format spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Far more simpler would have been to just upload this information to the web for people to access and search? In fact, what I did was to save each tab in that huge spreadsheet as a separate file, upload it to Google Docs, publish them as webpages and link to them on the ICT4Peace Foundation wiki, referenced above. Simple, effective, efficient.
VBW,
Sanjana
Erik Hersman 6:04 pm on January 24, 2010 Permalink |
Great point Sanjana. It’s one of the constant mysteries for me, why data isn’t published in a format easy to get to, mix and reuse for multiple purposes. Don’t even get me started on PDF maps as the only format on some websites…