collaboration technology for humanitarian action & global development
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COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMANITARIAN ACTION AND
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
ROBERT KIRKPATRICK
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters
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WHAT KINDS OF TECHNOLOGIES WILL HELP US ADAPT TO A
CHANGING WORLD AND PREPARE FOR THE
UNEXPECTED?
Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 2004
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IN OUR OPINION, COLLABORATION MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
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WHAT HUMANITARIAN ACTION SHOULD LOOK LIKE
• You and the diverse groups you now need to work with join forces, share your data, and keep each other in sync.
• Information flows rapidly, securely, reliably, up, down, and sideways.
• You work together to analyze the data stream, identify patterns, and synthesize it into actionable information.
• The response is agile, coordinated, efficient, and effective
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A FEW REASONS WHY IT SELDOM DOES…
• Harsh field conditions
• Slow, unreliable networks
• Hot, tired, overloaded responders
• Low signal-to-noise ratio
• Data trapped in silos
• Disincentives for cooperation
• Lack of good tools for emergent collective action
• How to include the local community?
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Open source software for closing the global collaboration gap
The InSTEDD TECHNOLOGY Platform
1. InSTEDD Mesh4X: Share Data Across All Boundaries
– MESH4X lets you integrate applications, devices, and information seamlessly into a shared, synchronized, distributed data mesh
2. InSTEDD GeoChat: Take Decisive Action in Response
– GEOCHAT lets you engage and coordinate with everyone who needs to be involved, linking headquarters, field, and the local community
3. InSTEDD Evolve: Synthesize Data into Actionable Information
– EVOLVE lets you and your team monitor and collaborate around diverse data streams to detect, analyze, triage and track critical events as they unfold
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Geospatially-aware group messaging service for mobile field coordination
GeoChat 1.0 Fully-Inclusive Mobile Comms
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GeoChat
Features:
• Create, join, and participate in chat groups using SMS, email, or a web client on the surface of a map
• Location information in messages is automatically extracted, so that you can see who said what, when, and where
• International SMS gateway, Twitter gateway, and local gateway options
• Full SMS command line interface
• Public, private, and anonymous group configurations
• Broadcast alerts to the entire team
• Relay RSS/ATOM feeds of critical data over SMS
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GeoChat Ideas for the Future
• Import additional data layers
• Sync structured data onto the map via HTTP or SMS
• Offline client for disconnected operations
• Pluggable encryption
• Sensor integration
• PDA client
• Social Networking
• Integrated Analytics – tag clouds, machine learning, entity extraction, clustering, etc.
• Radio integration? Voice? Video?
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A synchronization framework for seamless information sharing
Mesh4X 1.0 Adaptive Data Mesh Integration
Features:
• Fuse diverse applications, data sources, and devices
• Synchronize data automatically between databases, files, websites, desktop software, PDAs, maps, and the Cloud…
• Synchronize via HTTP or SMS
• Detect conflicts automatically
• Available in both .NET and Java
• Open standards: FeedSync, RSS/ATOM, XForms, RDF
A synchronization framework for seamless information sharing
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Mesh4X 1.0
Benefits:
• Database, device, application and platform independent
• Make changes anywhere. See the changes everywhere.
• Socio-politically neutral, “masterless” architecture
• Distributed, redundant storage
• Sync without Internet
• Work disconnected
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Human Expertise. Machine Learning. Evolve your Understanding.
EVOLVE 1.0 Collaborative Event Detection & Decision Support
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Evolve 1.0
Features:
• Create collaborative workspaces, invite colleagues, subscribe to data sources you choose to monitor
• Interact securely with your team to sift through the data stream for emerging events
• Annotate items with tags, comments, ratings, links, locations, files, alerts, and other social metadata
• Autonomous agents perform data fusion, feature extraction, classification, tagging, geo-coding
• Integrated hypothesis formation, visualization, machine learning
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Evolve 1.0
Benefits:
• Detect emerging critical events sooner and enable your team to take the right action earlier.
• Allow human experts and autonomous agent-based analytic services to augment one another’s efforts.
• Pattern detection algorithms learn from past events – and your team’s characterization of them – to improve performance the next time around.
• Fully extensible open source platform allows you to incorporate your own data sources, services, and embedded modules.