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Jake Nickell of Threadless, advised the crowd to “use your hobbies to do good. You never know what it will turn into. You never know what will happen.” Melissa Elliott of Standby Task Force...
Jake Nickell of Threadless, and Melissa Elliott of Standby Task Force advised GES delegates and staffers how to harness group energy to create social change. This was held during the Global...
With crisis mapping, a lot of information can be derived from. But at times, humanitarian workers tend to ignore these data due to lesser decision-making time and high work loads. Yet, every...
The SBTF effort gives new twists such as the following: 1. Huge potential for stakeholder engagement and broadening on outreach: In a time of plummeting budgets, building a constituency for...
AIUSA's Science for Human Rights Program specializes in analyzing satellite imagery from around the world for signs of demonstrations, inter-ethnic warfare and other potential indicators of...
This presentation will look at crisis mapping technology from the perspective of an attacker such as a hostile government, terrorist organization, or organized crime group. From this point of...
The Geocenter recently tapped 145 volunteers to help pull together a map of loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries backed by USAID’s Development Credit Authority. The resulting map...
Last month, the USAID used Data.gov in an innovative way – as a crowdsourcing platform. On June 1, a group of volunteers helped the agency map the locations of where the Development Credit Authority was issuing its loans.
USAID's GeoCenter worked in cooperation with the agency's Development Credit Authority (DCA) to identify a global dataset of approximately 117,000 records to map and make available to...
In this discussion, Helena Puig Larrauri, Co-Founder of the Standby Task Force (SBTF) talked about the “Standby Task Force” a collection of volunteers that have started to create crisis maps that...
The idea is to provide volunteers the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) Satellite Team with as much of road map as possible so they know exactly what they’re looking for in the satellite...
The satellite imagery analyzed by the SBTF was taken in early September. They could grab the August and September crisis data from Syria Tracker and turn the satellite imagery analysis data into...
The project officially launches this Friday. The triangulated results will be pushed to a dedicated UNHCR Ushahidi map for review. This will allow UNCHR to add additional contextual data to the...
The Crowdsourcing Satellite Imagery Analysis for UNHCR-Somalia project represents an applied research & development initiative. In short, the project initiators certainly don’t have all the...
The USAID project was a little different from what many people have in mind when they think about crowdsourcing; it did not involve Ushahidi, nor did it have anything to do mapping data submitted...
Many activists in Egypt donated food and medical supplies to support the Libyan revolution in early 2011. As a result, volunteers set up and coordinated humanitarian convoys from major Egyptian cities to Tripoli. But these convoys faced two major problems. First, volunteers needed to know where the convoys were in order to communicate this to Libyan revolutionists so they could wait for the fleet at the border and escort them to Tripoli. Second, because these volunteers were headed into a war zone, their friends and family wanted to keep track of them to make sure they were safe. The solution? IntaFeen.com.
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