From Floods Mapping to Open Data Platform

Faisal Chohan

BrightSpyre.com

July - 2010 - Floods

Flood Reporting And Mapping

Goal: Reach maximum people and map situation on ground

• Crowdsourcing

• Mapping

• SMS

• Micro-Workers

Similar Hack Ideas

Key Lessons• Crowdsourcing

• Crowdsource decision making

• Find some champions and let them lead

• Identify trouble makers - ignore them

• Always complete the loop

Tools• Git - Github - Source code management

• Ushahidi + Open Streep Map - Mapping

• FrontlineSMS - SMS Functionality

• Crowdflower for micro-work

• Amazon for Hosting

• Skype + Google Docs + etc…

Next

Disaster mapping to Open Data Platform

pakreport.org -

• Data searching / Scrapping / Cleaning

• Google Search, Custom Scrapping, Open Refine , Mapbox

• All of the data is open - available to anyone

Crowdsourcing - for work

eWork.pk

In Pakistan we launched Microwork platform

1.1 Billion Limited opportunities

807 million workforce South Asia

300 million workforce in Africa

Birth of Standby TaskForce and Micromappers Platform

eWork.pk • Micro-work for thousands of job opportunities

• You can connect to Internet, we can connect you to work.

• Back-office for digitization

• Distributed $30,000 last year

Citizen Empowerment• Always complete the information loop

• Don’t be greedy - Give back useful information

• Let the team decide - what to do

• You solve a problem - Success will follow.

www.pakreport.orgwww.ework.pk

www.brightspyre.com

@faisalchohan