15. from typhoon haiyan to typhoon hagupit: reflections on a year of building data preparedness and...

From Typhoon Haiyan to Typhoon Hagupit

Reflections on a Year Building Data Preparedness and Community

Resiliency in the Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan – Nov 2013• Concentrated in the Visayas• Official death toll over 6000• Officially over 6,000,000 

displaced

MIMOSA Deployment: Using the inReachSE by Delorme

• Satellite-connected SMS using the Iridium network

• Drop-down data forms populate 160-character messages

• Palantir parses messages into information objects and integrates them in a common data framework with OCHA and NDRRMC

• Distributed to 7 organizations and over 100 data collectors

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Misallocation of Medical programming for Typhoon Haiyan

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Poorly targeted livelihoods and shelter programming

Localizing Data Preparedness and Disaster Response

• Establish networks, data sharing agreements and technical structures prior to emergencies– Civil Society– Government–Military

• Collaborative training exercises• Improve local capacity in hardware, software and network resiliency.

• Move “decision relevance” of information as close to the event response as possible.  

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COLLABORATION WITH GAWAD KALINGA

• Prepositioning inReach devices in 12 regions • Developing core analytics capacity• Establishing standard disaster relief ontology• ODK integration for baseline data collection

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A more resilient solution: strengthen local NGO networks

Typhoon Hagupit- Dec 2014

• Officially 18 dead• Over 1,000,000 displaced• Targeted Eastern Samar• Communications, evacuation and 

preparedness planning saved countless lives. 

• Livelihoods and shelter remain key problems

Prepositioning of data collection resources leads to early stage, cross-sectoral community assessment.

COMING UP IN 2015

Andrew SchroederDirect Relief

aschroeder@directrelief.org

Justin RichmondPalantir

Jrichmond@palantir.com