1.Digital Disaster Responders
Gsli lafsson
Disaster Management Advisor
Email: gislio@live.com
Blog:http://blog.disasterexpert.org
Twitter: @gislio

2. Disasters
3. Images of people in need
4. The longing to lend a hand
5. But not everyone can go there
6. The Birth Of Digital Disaster Responders
7. Five types of crowd involvement
8. 1. Advocacy
9. Social Media
10. Text HAITI to 90999 Campaign
11. Provide advise to affected population
12. 2. Crowdsourcing Situation Information
13. Mission 4636
14. Information Economics
15. 3. Crowd Generated Maps
16. Open Street Maps
17. 4. Crowd Generated Solutions
18. CrisisCamp Haiti
19. Big World Small World
20. 30 second learning curve
21. Data Collection
Data Collation/
Processing
Data Analysis
Information Dissemination
Decisions
5. Crowd Based Information Management
22. Information Management on the ground
23. Connectivity
24. Sources of Information
25.

noise becomes data when it has a cognitive pattern

26. data becomes information when its assembled into a coherent whole which can be related to other information 27. information becomes knowledge when its integrated with other information in a form that is useful for making decisions and determining actions, 28. knowledge becomes understanding when related to other knowledge in a manner useful in anticipating, judging and acting, 29. understanding becomes wisdom when its informed by purpose, ethics, principals, memory and projectionDee Hock, 1996
Why we need information
30. DATA VOLUME =
# of Forms Collected x Number/Type of Questions x Periodicity (Frequency of data collection)
Data Volume
31. Mechanical Turks
32. Translation Frameworks
33. Swift River
34. Collaborative Analysis
35. The Way Forward
36. Facilitated
Knowledge Management
Collaborative
Workgroups
Social
Networks
Evolution
37. Discussion Boards
Comments
Podcasting
Shared Calendars
Microblogging
Versioning
Profiles
Document Libraries
Team Sites
Tags
Blogs
Task Lists
Wikis
Surveys
Ratings
EnterpriseCollaboration
Capabilities
SocialComputing
Technologies
DisasterCommunities
The Need for Communities
38. The crowd and cloud based crisis informationmanagement has to be a joint effort wherewe combine multiple technologies to solve the issues ahead.
A Common Cause
39. Governance Policies
40. Legal, Compliance & Security
41. Confusion
42.

Twitter:

43. @gislio 44. @DavidClinchNews 45. @poplifegirl 46. @patrickmeier 47. @whiteafrican 48. @edjez 49. @andrejverity 50. @crisismappers 51. @crisiscamp 52. @ushahidiWebsites/Blogs:

http://blog.disasterexpert.net

53. http://crisiscamp.org/ 54. http://www.rhok.org/ 55. http://www.crisismappers.net/ 56. http://ushahidi.org 57. http://storyful.netFurther resources
58. Source: xkcd, http://xkcd.com/386/
And Finally...
59. Backup slides
60.

On and off workloads (e.g. batch job)

61. Over provisioned capacity is wasted 62. Time to market can be cumbersome 63. Successful services needs to grow/scale 64. Keeping up w/growth is big IT challenge 65. Complex lead time for deploymentOn and Off
Growing Fast
Inactivity
Period
Compute
Compute
Average Usage
Usage
Average
Time
Time

Services with micro seasonality trends

66. Peaks due to periodic increased demand 67. IT complexity and wasted capacity 68. Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand 69. Sudden spike impacts performance 70. Cant over provision for extreme cases Unpredictable Bursting
Predictable Bursting
Optimal Cloud Workload Patterns
Compute
Compute
Average Usage
Average Usage
Time
Time
71. Organizations 2.0
72. Normal (routine emergencies)

People relate as roles

73. People are the problem 74. Orgs are the solutionDisaster

Relate as People

75. Orgs are the problem 76. People are the solutionCatastrophe

Society breaks down

77. No relationships survival 78. Only happened a few times (Hiroshima)E=mc2 of disasters