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  • Erik Hersman 8:43 am on January 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    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 2010

    Read it online below:
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    • Eddy 7:37 pm on January 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      This is a fine, detailed and highly specific post. Please know how appreciated that is. Keep up the great work everyone.

  • Erik Hersman 7:12 pm on January 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    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

    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/submit

    More news and updates on this will be coming soon.

     

  • Erik Hersman 6:33 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Ushahidi Situation Report (1/17/2010) 

    Ushahidi Haiti Deployment: Situation Report – Jan 17, 2010

    Dev items

    1. Look/fix the geoRSS from the 4636 system
    2. Fixing bugs and adding usability features on 4636.ushahidi.com (Note: Brian is 100% on this, has no spare capacity)
    3. Ory’s “Action tag” system – to tag reports with who’s reported on them (feedback loop)
    4. Halfway done on cluster mode
    5. Swift River – needed VERY badly for situation room to process incoming reports (how soon?)
    6. Add public data download on main page (Ken and/or Emmanuel)
    7. Bug reports – http://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Haiti/issues
    8. Make sure that the comments are fixed, there was an issue with the security code
    9. Figure out an automated way to track who is subscribing to the feeds – Brian to busy to do it now, can we use feedburner or something – that will help me see which organizations are tracking us.
    10. Admin report edit log so people can see what’s been edited, what hasn’t, and a log of who edited

    Design items

    • “About” page formatting
    • “How to Help” page formatting
    • “Report” page categories
    • Improve UI on KML layers: text font too large, also big massive white space below time slider
    • Graphic explaining how the 4636 system works

    Non-dev items

    • Put together database of contacts in Haiti with affailiation and contact info for Nigel (Patrick)
    • Replying to emails coming to Haiti@ushahidi.com (Patrick/Ory)
    • Approving reports to Ushahdi (Patrick/Ory & team)
    • Add SMS reports to map (Patrick & team)
    • Situation Reports (Erik/Patrick)
    • Compiling updated database for Clinton (Patrick)
    • Processing of non-English email reports – Creole especially
    • We need to devise an sustainability strategy ASAP, can’t keep the Fletcher Sit Room open for more than a day or two, can shift to fully virtual Sit Room but this still requires some management, not sure how to do this.
    • Need to show how are data is being used, who is using, etc, stuff that Ory is trying to find out
    • Flag particular reports that have critical information e.g. a hospital needs supplies and broadcast to our network but then there is a risk of noise (part of “Action Tag”)
    • Encourage responders, situation allowing to let us know if an action has been taken. We can then leave a comment on a report or something. (Part of “Action Tag”)

    Recently done/currently doing:

    • David – Timeline fixed.
    • David – Map changes/updates
    • Brian – 4636 system
    • Caleb – formatting on homepage
    • Caleb – new language switcher
    • Ory – media outreach, with focus now on local media
    • Ory – closing the loop – make sure aid organizations are tracking us and that we can then track their actions if possible.
    • Ory – putting together a list of who is tracking us so that we can publicize
    • Ory – approving reports on Haiti admin
    • Ken – cleaned up and uploaded the KML overlays
    • Patrick – combing all news sources
    • Patrick – updating mapping locations database which CrisisMappers group found very useful
    • Patrick – managing group of 20+ volunteers, in Boston situation room and virtual
    • Erik/Sarah – Media release & blog update
    • Erik – Twitter & media
    • Erik – situation updates & team coordination
    • Henry – bugs
    • Henry/David – Alerts system
    • Jon – Haiti tracker: “send to Ushahidi” button, tagging and controlling for duplicates
     

  • Erik Hersman 12:04 pm on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Comprehensive InSTEDD Sitrep (1/15/2010) 

    InSTEDD’s most recent Situation Report that covers communications, mapping, coordination, medical and missing persons information as it pertains to the tech community working on the Haiti response.

    Technology Community Situation Report 15-Jan, 2009 as of 2359 hours
    Prepared by Luke Beckman, National Response Liaison, InSTEDD, +1-650-740-5853, Beckman@instedd.org

    Download it as a Word Document here:
    InSTEDD_SitRep_15-Jan-2009

    Read it online below:
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  • Erik Hersman 8:46 am on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: status, Update   

    USHAHIDI STATUS UPDATE:

    Data Sharing
    RSS – http://haiti.ushahidi.com/feed
    Bigger RSS – feed http://haiti.ushahidi.com/feed?l=200
    API – http://haiti.ushahidi.com/api
    API Doc – http://wiki.ushahidi.com/doku.php?id=ushahidi_api

    Incoming Reports
    Currently 443 geo-tagged reports on http://haiti.ushahidi.com
    Many full-time Fletcher students combing news, adding reports in Boston Situation Room
    (we need to broaden this base and get a strategy for work beyond this weekend)

    Submitting Reports
    Online: http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports/submit
    Voice: +1 646-502-4124 Enter pin: 61623
    Int’l SMS: +44 762.480.2524
    Local SMS: shortcode coming soon for the 4636 project (we need a backup non-shortcode number for Haiti)

     

  • Erik Hersman 6:47 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Update   

    David Kobia and the dev team have been working on:

    - Site performance updates
    - Report count issues
    - 7 day timeline update

    Hot items still on the docket:
    - Twitter filter integration (Jon)
    - KML file overlays (Henry)

     

  • Erik Hersman 5:40 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: categories, Update   

    Update on Haiti Categorization:

    1. Urgences | Emergency
    1a. Structure effondres | Collapsed structure
    1b. Incendie | Fire
    1c. Personnes prises au piege | People trapped
    1d. Eau contaminee | Contaminated water supply
    1e. Seisme et repliques | Earthquake and aftershocks
    1f. Urgence medicale | Medical Emergency
    2. Menaces | Threats
    2a. Structures a risque | Structures at risk
    2b. Pillage | Looting
    3. Urgences logistiques | Vital Lines
    3a. Penurie d’eau | Water shortage
    3b. Route barree | Road blocked
    3c. Sans courant | Power Outage
    4. Secours | Response
    4a. Services de sante | Health services
    4b. Recherche et sauvetage | USAR Search and Rescue
    4c. Refuge | Shelter
    4d. Distribution d’aliments | Food distribution
    4e. Assainissement eau et hygiene | Water sanitation and hygiene promotion
    4f. Denrees non alimentaires | Non food items
    4g. Deblayage de gravats | Rubble removal
    4h. Gestion des cadavres | Died bodies management
    5. Autre | Other
    6. Nouvelles de Personnes | Persons News
    6a. Morts | Deaths
    6b. Personnes Disparues | Missing Persons

    ___________
    Luis Hernando Aguilar Ramírez
    Information Management Consultant
    United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Colombia
    aguilarl@un.org

     

  • Erik Hersman 10:35 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Action Items, Update   

    Good morning US team. Here is an aggregated list of outstanding items (feel free to add to it and/or claim items on it).

    Developer Action Items:

    • Alerts funtionality: some errors on the email-side (see earlier post). Also need to test for the SMS-side.
    • KML: overlays of important data still need to be added
    • SMS shortcode to be turned on soon, is it ready? Tested?
    • Twitter: Filtering done, need to ensure it can be submitted into Ushahidi by editors
    • Timeline: change it to 7 days.
    • Translations: double check to ensure there are no errors

    Non-Dev Action Items

    • The organization index by Sahana doesn’t seem to have much data in it yet, but need to figure out how we can get that populated for use.
    • Get Twitter integration working with the Fletcher report editors
    • Liason with the Google team on the new People Finder on map integration
     

    • Kennedy Kasina 11:15 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Im double checking the translations as well as testing the SMS side

    • patrick 12:19 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Erik, on Sahana, do you mean getting their data?

      • patrick 12:21 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        sorry, misread, all set on Sahana

    • Henry 12:49 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I can’t see the details of the Alerts issue

    • caleb 2:53 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’m working on making the translation switcher more prominent

    • patrick 2:56 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      - Trying to help out on Sahana lists, waiting to hear back from WFP and ReliefWeb
      - Will follow up with Jon now re Twitter integration
      - Have not seen updates from Google team re PeopleFinder

      • jongos 2:57 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I’m working on a javascript ‘Send to Ushahidi’ button. I’m still the only person working on Haiti Tracker (last dev couldn’t get his head around things fast enough) so the issue list is being attacked slowly but methodically. ;-)

      • Erik Hersman 2:58 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        7am in California, Google is just getting up.

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