Mapping, open data, and open platforms in support of crisis response, humanitarian aid and development. How organizations can better understand and share their impacts.

1. Here We Are
Utilizing Place for Humanitarian Action
Andrew Turner
CTO, FortiusOne
InterAction ICCC 2010 andrew@fortiusone.com

2. People
flickr: ajturner

3. Place

4. People + Place ~ Community

5. Understanding Place

6. Place provides Understanding
flickr: lo_

7. What’s Changing?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/29552301

8. Data Catalogs

9. !
Open Data Standards

10. Open GeoData http://geocommons.com

11. Open Government GeoData

12. Open Government GeoData

13. Open International GeoData

14. <georss:point>
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Open Linkable GeoData

15. Open Semantic Data?

16. GeoWeb

19. Locative Devices

20. Ubiquitous Mobile Devices

21. unread POI’s 1000+

22. Broadband Connectivity

23. Broadband Connectivity
still not well distributed

24. 80% of the world
live within cell coverage
and 50% of the
world own a mobile phone

25. Open Source

26. Open, Accessible Data

27. Sharing

28. Nothing is quite so poignant as a...

29. Crisis

30. Multiple Facets to a Crisis
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31. JRC Tsunami Model
•Earthquake Detection
•Wave Propagation
Model
•Feeds and Alerts

32. Sahana

33. Sahana

34. Ushahidi http://ushahidi.com

35. InSTEDD

36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorio/40268917
Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita

37. Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina

38. Crisis Reporting
Hurricane Katrina

39. Utilizing Place in Crisis Response

40. topophilia love of place

41. New Orleans

42. Green Dot Map

43. Where is my House? Green Dot Map

44. Prove Yourself Viable
Where is my House? Green Dot Map

45. Prove Yourself Viable
By Green We Mean Bulldozer
Where is my House? Green Dot Map

46. Allow citizens to understand their place

47. wrp.geothings.net Green Dot Map

49. Open Data Green Dot Map

50. Broadmoor Green Dot Map

52. http://www.flickr.com/photos/justanuptowngirl/2081416562/

53. Community Broadmoor

54. Blogs Broadmoor

55. Forums Broadmoor

56. Mid-City Green Dot Map

57. Community Mid-City

58. Wiki Mid-City

59. Flip that Neighborhood Mid-City

60. Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesubculture/339185196/

61. Newspapers Demolitions

62. from Newspaper Listings
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?tabid=118

63. to Spreadsheets
http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.html
http://blogometer.com/post/editgrid-zero-to-six

64. to Maps
http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/13/google-maps/

65. to Blog Posts
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/1431-annette/

66. to Flickr Photos

67. Brought Together Demolitions

68. Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894170436/

69. Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2893330201

70. Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894172926

71. 3 year anniversary

72. 3 year anniversary

73. n e d
tpo
P o s
3 year anniversary

74. Storm Tracking Hurricane Gustav

75. Hurricane Gustav
http://maker.geocommons.com

76. Iterate

77. Public Data
http://finder.geocommons.com

78. HurricaneWiki

79. CrescentMaps.org

80. Hurricane Ike

81. Demolitions 2.0
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/map-all-demolition-permits-issued-post-gustav/

82. Demolitions 2.0
http://flickr.com/photos/prc-advocacy/sets/72157607209781789/

83. Net Positive Effects
flickr: mikel_maron - Kibera GPS Traces

84. Data Flows
flickr: fdecomite

85. Impact of Katrina on
Transportation Routing
Frequencies
ROADS

87. 83
Network Effect for Data
Public
Data
Enterprise Mobile
Data Data
Third Sensor
Party Data
Data

88. Bi-Directional data flows

89. OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

90. What is
OpenStreetMap?
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95. OpenCycleMap http://opencyclemap.org

96. GPSies http://gpsies.com/

97. OpenCycleMap http://opencyclemap.org

98. Shenzen Maps

99. Community

100. 2008 Year of Edits

101. Community
Ownership
Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

102. Mapping Palestine

103. Gaza Strip

104. Gaza Strip

105. Providing a Platform

108. Easy Data Sharing

109. Easy Spatial Referencing

110. Data Sharing

111. Step By Step Mapping

112. Base Imagery

113. Impact Analysis
Data Temporal Analysis

114. Education
Threats
Population
Health
Cross-domain
collaboration

115. Mobile Input

116. Realtime Collaboration

117. Offline Web Applications

118. Portable Google Fusion Server
Portable GeoIQ Appliance
Portable Battery Pack
Portable Solar Power
Offline Web Apps
Afghanistan Field Deployment
(the 3-lb box)

119. GeoIQ USB

120. GeoIQ USB

121. GeoIQ Cloud
GeoCommons
GeoIQ USB
GeoIQ
Appliance GeoIQ
Laptop
Distributed Architecture

122. Federated

123. Common Operating Pictures

124. Walking Papers

125. Walking Papers

126. Afghanistan
“The Taj”

127. picasa: fobtaj
Disconnected Environments

128. picasa: fobtaj
Social Engagement

129. picasa: fobtaj
Social Engagement

130. picasa: fobtaj
Social Data Cultivation

131. Government Participation

132. Share what you can
flickr: viriyincy

133. Share what you can
keep private,
anonymize,
aggregate
what you can’t share
flickr: viriyincy

135. Privacy & Security

136. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

137. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

138. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

139. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

140. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

141. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

142. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

143. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds

144. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds
Federation

145. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds
Federation

146. Spreadsheet
SMS
KML
Sensors
Feeds
Federation
Federation

147. Citizen reported incidents

148. Predicted areas for violence

149. Afghanistan Election
Dashboard

150. Iterative improvements and feedback

151. Haiti

155. OpenStreetMap
Haiti - January 12, 2010

156. Haiti - January 14, 2010

157. Haiti - January 26, 2010

159. Offline Access

160. OpenRoutingService.org

161. GeoEye Imagery

162. Digital Globe Imagery

163. Damage Assessment

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

165. Haiti SMS Ecosystem

166. Crowd-Sourced
Translation

167. Sahana Haiti Hospitals

168. Needs & Damage
http://news.geocommons.com
Assessment

169. Medical Infrastructure

170. Medical Needs

171. Organizational Operating Pictures

172. Who’s doing what where?

173. What impact is it having?

174. What impact is it having?

175. How can I demonstrate
that to stakeholders?

190. InterAction.org
Member Directory Mapping Project (MDMP)
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Project Overview

192. http://news.geocommons.com/interaction
InterAction Member Projects

193. http://news.geocommons.com/interaction
Food & Agriculture Security

194. InterAction MDMP
• Planned release at
InterAction Forum in June
• Talk to Julie Montgomery
during today’s meeting or
contact Allen

195. Thank you for your
valuable work
Andrew Turner
e: andrew@fortiusone.com
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