disaster tech: what is working and what is coming
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We want to teach you how to make cool to technology save lives.
(Hopefully you to actually go do it!)(Hopefully you to actually go do it!)(Hopefully you to actually go do it!)
Ad-Hoc Adaptation:
Many Using GmapsMany Using Gmaps
http://twitter.com/nateritter
ARC: “Take the I-90 bridge...”Jesse: “The bridge is destroyed”ARC: “but Google says...”ARC: “but Google says...”ARC: “but Google says...”
Problem: Google Maps isn’t Realtime
http://twitter.com/nateritter
Post KatrinaPost Katrina
20072007
20072007
Iteration:
UN considering OSMUN considering OSM• UNJLC Interagency Humanitarian
Common Service
• Building UNSDI-t from the top down
• But now considering OSM for lightweight, open bottom up collaborative mapping
Ad-Hoc Adaptation:
Nate Ritter’s TwittersNate Ritter’s Twitters
http://twitter.com/nateritterhttp://twitter.com/nateritter
Ad-hoc Adaptation:
American Red CrossAmerican Red Cross
http://twitter.com/redcross
Iteration:
InSTEDDInSTEDD
Working with traditional Disaster Agencies to build new tools.
Distributing work as Open Source
Ad-Hoc Adaptation:
JRC Tsunami Model
USGS GeoRSS earthquake feed
EU Commission lightweight tsunami propagation model
GeoRSS polygons republished
Champion:
GDACS: Global Disaster Alert & Coordination
SystemSystemSystem
http://www.gdacs.org
Iteration:
Pending.Pending.
Will these technologies save lives?We won’t know until they do... or don’t.
Ad-hoc Adaptation:
Tenacious SearchTenacious SearchDistributed of Aerial Imagery for Search & RescueImages put into Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing tool.Possible hits sent to experts for review.
Source: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-08/ff_jimgray_lost
Iteration:
Steve Fossett SearchSteve Fossett SearchInadequate training for volunteers.Many false positives.People called SAR teams directly which hindered search.
Anti-Pattern“In hindsight, I wish it hadn’t been there, because it didn’t produce a darn thing that was productive except for being a giant black hole for energy, time and resources. There may come a day when this technology is capable of doing what it says it can deliver, but boy, that’s not now.”
- Maj. Cynthia Ryan
http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/11/08/the-perils-of-the-distributed-approach/
New Champions:InternetSAR
InternetSAR“ABSOLUTELY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES are InternetSAR.org participants to report objects found in imagery we provide directly to search authorities. [...] The reason for this policy is that our systems are set up to manage and filter reports for search teams and those who bypass our reporting system can actually impede the efforts of search teams.”
you don’t choose the moment...the moment chooses you.
You only choose how prepared you are when it does...
-Chief Mike Burtch
Mikel Maron - [email protected] Robbins - [email protected]