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Harnessing Volunteer Technology Communities to Drive Capacity and Innovation in Crisis Response and Global Development Monika Adamczyk
Crisis Commons / CrisisCamp Boston
CRISIS COMMONS
About Speaker
Independent IT Consultant – 10+ years of experience in software design and development, architecture and project mgmt
Crisis Commons member and CrisisCamp Boston City Lead
Organizer of Massachusetts Google Technology User Group
Email: [email protected]
Crisis Commons is a global network of volunteers who use creative problem solving and
open technologies to help people and communities in times and places of crisis.
Crisis Commons members organize response events
called CrisisCamps.
What is CrisisCommons?
From Idea to Community
THE BEGINNING IMMEDIATE RESULTS
Founders met at 2009 Transparency Camp
Proposed the idea of Gov 2.0 Camp
90 days later 200 people participated from MIT Media labs, GWU, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, UN, Homeland Security, World Bank, GeoCommons, Sahana, Ushahidi
Ignite Session at World Bank – Beginning of Interest in Building VTC Collaboration Capacity
June 2009 – CrisisCamp Washington DC
November 2009– Google, Yahoo and Microsoft dedicated to work together to form Random Hack of Kindness (RHOK)
CrisisCamp Haiti 90 Days - 50 Events,
10 Countries, +2000 volunteers
Hundreds of thousands of dollars of volunteer labor
New communities emerged
Subsequent community response to Chile, Oil Spill, Pakistan Floods
CrisisCamp Haiti Boston
January 23rd, 2010 – 1st CrisisCamp attended by approx 140 volunteers (one of the largest camps)
Feb 13 during - 2nd Boston CrisisCamp approx 40 volunteers continued working on existing projects
Projects: Haiti Voice Needs, Open Tweet Feed, Tweak the Tweet, UN RSS Feed and Aggregator, Ushahidi Automation Tools
Governmental
Non-Governmental Organizations
Crisis Response Organizations
Volunteer Technical Communities
Private Sector
Academic
Craig Fugate, Administrator FEMACrisisCongress, July 2010
Building Partnerships
Crisis Commons – Global 2011 and on
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation granted the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and Crisis Commons a 2-year research grant
• Engagement: strategy• Engagement: community
engagement• Research and innovation
CrisisCamp Boston Now December 2010:
RHOK #2 Boston run at Boston University
February 12-13th, 2011: NECH 2010 – CrisisCommons Projects Track
Creating Technology Resource Map
Connecting local CROs and VTCs CrisisCommons Boston
Unconference (Tentative Spring 2011)
Contact Information
CrisisCamp Boston Twitter - @crisiscampbos Google Group -
http://groups.google.com/group/crisiscamp-boston
Email - [email protected] Twitter - @crisiscommons, @crisiscamp Website - http://www.crisiscommons.org Google Group -
http://groups.google.com/group/crisiscommons
Questions?