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The STATIM (Storm, Tornado And Tsunami Interconnected Modules) Shelter consists of an enclosable hull comprised of a series of precast concrete modules, similar to large concrete pipes. Once...
Here’s Mashable‘s official list of the top five projects documenting and commemorating the earthquake and tsunami: Japan In A Day - Invites people in Japan to submit videos of their lives this...
This is one of the videos posted in the Tsunami Stories, wherein elderly victims of Japan's tsunami disaster are helping to relieve the stress with robotic seals. Tsunami Stories is a a...
Documentary describing the 3.11 Tsunami / Nuclear Radiation disaster of March 2011 in interviews with children.
As an initial step, in an effort to raise global awareness and help prevent future loss of lives, The Global Innovation Commons are making available a list of all patent disclosures and open source...
JapanStatus.org provides a dashboard of accurate, sourced information on the situation in Japan following the March 2011 disaster.
City of Portland, Oregon’s CivicApps initiative has proven to be a fruitful means for generating innovative, unconventional disaster preparedness tools. The crowd sourcing approach of CivicApps is...
The lessons learned from crowdsourcing in Japan could one day benefit charities on Long Island. A map to which local groups would post data could help point food, clothing or other donations to...
In addition to measuring radiation in Japan, Safecast has made efforts to take readings globally to help with education and understanding of just what these measurements mean to residents of...
They were heading north to the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, about 40 miles away. They gather radiation readings in the air and on surfaces with Geiger counters in...
According to Miles O'Brien, much of what we know about the effects of an acute dose of radiation comes from studying Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors. But radiation contamination at the level...
Scott Horvatt and the USGS start crowdsourcing and responding to followers’ questions. They send out a “Did You Feel It?” message with a link to a form that collects first-hand reports of major...
Updates on how crowdfunding efforts are coming along and new releases are available at the projects Facebook page We Are All Radioactive. Videos and the website are in both Japanese and English,...
Through crowdsourcing platform IndieGoGo, We Are All Radioactive is raising funds to release the different episodes of their web series progressively: as soon as they get enough money for one...
A crowdfunding campaign video for We Are All Radioactive, an online documentary film project about surfers rebuilding northern Japan after the earthquake and tsunami on 3.11.2011. Through...
Google has also created a crisis response page which collects emergency information numbers in Japan and has a crowdsourced “person finder” feature.
Esri came up with an addictive mashup of YouTube videos, Flickr photos, and tweets from the front lines of the disaster. Pinpoint where each quake and aftershock struck, then see the damage from...
A number of real-time amateur radiation monitors have popped up online. A live geiger counter at altTokyo.com updates a graph with data every 60 seconds, and a uStream channel broadcasting the...
The aim is to reach $100,000 in donations to the Red Cross Japan Aid. AudioDraft will start by donating $1,000 and they will donate additional $1 per song submitted to this contest.
Citizen journalism has been shaking up the news industry for years already, and CNN's iReport section is one of many efforts by traditional news outlets to include citizen voices. Earlier this month, however, CNN launched a new effort, dubbed “Open Stories”, that aims to take that concept a step further by crowdsourcing coverage of important topics through a combination of citizen and professional journalists.
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