Tools for global collaboration, humanitarian development

tech tools for global
collaboration 4 good.
GeoCommons, CrabGrass,
the Digital Gazette, and more

Andrew Turner
CTO - FortiusOne
ﬂickr: mikel_maron - Kibera GPS Traces
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

What are we going to talk about?


What are we going to talk about?

Tools to enable global collaboration,
humanitarian development and action


What speciﬁcally are we talking about?

• Trends, Drivers and Open Issues

• GeoCommons

• OpenStreetMap

• CrabGrass

• Digital Gazette

• Uses Haiti and Afghanistan and elsewhere

• CrisisCommons, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, ...

Lunch - Nom!

• Deep Dives


Who is @ajturner? a short autobiography


Airships


Vehicle Simulation


Astrium EADS


Convergence


Convergence uLocate WHERE


Where 2.0: August 2008

The State of the
Geospatial Web

An O’Reilly Radar Report
By Andrew Turner & Brady Forrest
Preface by Tim O’Reilly


Geo Community


Geography is a
Common Pivot Point


The role of maps
Maps Reﬂect & Deﬁne Reality

Waldseemüller Uniersalis Cosmographia

“Americus”
The role of maps
Maps Reﬂect & Deﬁne Reality

Waldseemüller Uniersalis Cosmographia

Drivers

•Global, Open Internet

•Inexpensive GPS

•Mobile Devices

•“Web 2.0” - bidirectional


Trends

•Open Sharing
•Realtime Data
•Analytics
•Social Networks
•Crisis Crowds
•New sensor platforms
•‘Citizen’ Engagement


Issues

•No “Data” reporting

•Network Connectivity

•Data Overload

•Security

•Bureaucracy (DHD)

•Trust, Accuracy, Veracity


ICT4Peace advisory to UN

• Pre-planned information-sharing policies robust enough to
handle severe crises in a timely manner. This includes policies
to leverage crisis-related information generated from
outside the UN system and the development of robust data
models and data dictionaries that can be shared on demand.

• An emphasis on standards-based information capture and
exchange

• Harmonisation of signiﬁcant variance in agency approaches to
and capacities of information management during crises,
including human resource management and data-sharing
policies.


Huffman’s Principles
for Data Sharing

http://blog.fortiusone.com/2009/09/16/huffmans-three-principles-for-data-sharing/

for Data Sharing

1.Create immediate value
for anyone contributing
data


for Data Sharing

data

2.Make contributor’s data
available back to them
with improvements


for Data Sharing

data

2.Make contributor’s data
available back to them
with improvements

3.Share derivative works
back with the data
sharing community


GeoCommons


What is GeoCommons?


What is GeoCommons?

A web-based data visualization and
collaboration platform with a global community


What is GeoCommons?

A web-based data visualization and
collaboration platform with a global community
Built on the GeoIQ platform

Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita

Crisis Reporting
Hurricane Katrina


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Network Effect for Data

Public
Data

Enterprise Mobile
Data Data

Third Sensor
Party Data
Data


Easy Data Sharing


Easy Spatial Referencing


Federated


Step By Step Mapping


Easy Analysis
Impact Analysis


Education

Threats

Population

Health

Cross-collaboration


SMS

Sensors
Spreadsheet
Feeds

KML


SMS

Sensors
Spreadsheet
Feeds

KML

Federation


SMS

Sensors
Spreadsheet
Feeds

KML

Federation

Federation


SMS

Sensors
Spreadsheet
Feeds

KML

Satellite
imagery

UAV
imagery Federation

Federation


Designed for Users

Powered by Developers


developer.geoiq.com


GeoIQ Excel Toolbar


GeoIQ ArcGIS Toolbar


Story Telling
& Transparency


InterAction


OpenStreetMap


What is OpenStreetMap?


A Wiki for the World

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The Cathedral


ﬂickr: mgilbir

The Bazaar


ﬂickr: mofﬁ

No Way it will Work


ﬂick: rniccolo.rigacci

Mapping Parties


Typical Process


Individual Mapping


Imagery Tracing


Editable Maps


Open Data imports
Netherlands


OSM DC


2005 Today
OSM Registered Users


http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/peterito/3054501076

Result: Year of Edits http://www.vimeo.com/2598878


data by OpenStreetMap, maps by Andy Allan

Personal Needs:
OpenCycleMap

OpenCycleMap

OpenPisteMap

Personal Needs:
Urban Revitalization

ﬂickr: zeebie

Personal Needs:
Safety, Security
OpenStreetMap Palestine

crowd-sourced, country-wide
mapping in 3 weeks


Routing based on Nationality


Ushahidi / SwiftRiver


What is Ushahidi?

http://github.com/ushahidi

What is Ushahidi?

A platform for reporting
data collection and visualization

http://github.com/ushahidi

Ushahidi


What is SwiftRiver?

http://github.com/ushahidi/Swiftriver

What is SwiftRiver?

an open-source platform that helps users
manage realtime data.

http://github.com/ushahidi/Swiftriver

CrabGrass


What is CrabGrass?

http://crabgrass.riseuplabs.org/

What is CrabGrass?

software libre for social organizing

http://crabgrass.riseuplabs.org/

What can CrabGrass do?
• Users, Groups, Committees, • Bookmarking
Councils, Networks
• Task lists
• Directory
• File uploads and sharing
• Permissions and Access Controls
• Forums
• Home pages
• Tagging
• Wiki
• Commenting
• Blogs
• Voting
• Media: Photos, Videos
• Rating
• Meeting & Event Calendars
• Fully Conﬁgurable
• Personal Messaging
• Extensible


Technology

• Ruby on Rails

• MySQL

• Sphinx indexing

• other: ImageMagick, OpenOfﬁce...

• Very active development on lots of branches. 0.5.3.2 pending release

• Don’t feel bad if it’s confusing at ﬁrst

http://github.com/riseuplabs/crabgrass


User Proﬁle Pages


Groups


Networks/Chapters


Forums


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Redmine Integration

• Redmine is a Ruby on Rails project management

• Focused on software projects

• Integrated with source code repositories, issue tracking, releases, etc.


Redmine Demo


Redmine + Crabgrass


Release Roadmap


Issue Tracking


Emergent Patterns

ﬂickr: fdecomite


Afghanistan Election
Monitoring

a story of emergent
solutions and
relationships


“Private” Data - IED to
Tracks

ﬂickr: andycarvin


Beer for Data


Ofﬂine Web Applications


GeoWeb in a Box


Camp Roberts


ﬂickr: developmentseed

More Stuff in a Box NGA Imagery/SMS/


Walking Papers


NGA Imagery


USAID Partnership


Privacy & Security


January 12, 2010


January 31, 2009


Haiti - January 12, 2010


Haiti CNIGS Ofﬁce (GIS)


Community Surge


Port-au-Prince, Sheet 1 1:12,500, Edition 4-DMA, Series E935.
U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, 1994 (18MB) and PDF version


GeoEye Imagery


Digital Globe Imagery


Damage Assessment


Needs Assessment


I am currently in Port Au Prince with
the Fairfax County Urban Search &
Rescue Team (USA-1) out of Fairfax,
VA, USA. I wish there was a way that I
can express to you properly how
important your OSM ﬁles were to us.


OpenRoutingService.org


Ushahidi::Haiti http://haiti.ushahidi.com


Crowd-Sourced
Translation

Sahana Haiti Hospitals


>600 Engineers,
GEO-CAN 103 Organizations


Up to date, accessible data

Fast Production Cycles

Up to date, accessible data and imagery

Situational Awareness/
Common Operating Picture

Linkable, Exportable,
Shareable

Shareable


SMS

Sensors
Spreadsheet
Feeds

KML

Satellite
imagery

UAV
imagery


World Bank Data
Dissemination Project

Ofﬂine Dashboard

Citizen Transparency

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/The_Haiti_Timeline


Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (H.O.T.)


Digital Gazette


What is the Digital Gazette?



A web-based social network and data
collaboration focused on engaging with
local communities



A web-based social network and data
collaboration focused on engaging with
local communities
Built on CrabGrass and GeoCommons


Enable the transition from
crisis to stability by engaging
the entire ecosystem


Local Knowledge


http://github.com/fortiusone/digitalgazette


Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Photo Courtesy Todd Huffman

credit: Dave Warner

Social Data Cultivation


Local Capacity


Positive Externalities

ﬂickr: mikel_maron - Kibera GPS Traces

Walking Papers
MapKibera

A Simple Idea

How can people use
technology to assist citizens
and communities during time
and places of crisis?


Emergent Tools


Crisis Continuity

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CrisisCamp Haiti

• Organized ﬁrst CrisisCamp
within 48 hours

• First Week: 5 Camps

• Second Week: 13 Camps in 4
Countries

• Since: 45 events in 6 Countries
with approximately 1,500+
volunteers

• Video


CrisisCamp Duitama
Colombia


Inveneo
From CrisisCamp...
...to Haiti in 48 hours

SOS Children

Red Cross


Mobile Applications
• www.traduiapp.org
• Kreyol Translation
• Apple App Store
Posted within 24 hours
• Available worldwide within
5 days
• Machine Translation Project
for more phrases and words

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Chile/2010_2_27_Earthquake#Reliefoversight.org_CHILE


Next Steps

• Questions - and hopefully some answers

• Lunch! NomNom

• Deep Dive into technology

• Go where you want to...


Thank you
Andrew Turner
e: andrew@fortiusone.com
w: http://fortiusone.com
b: http://highearthorbit.com
t: @ajturner


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