iccm 2013 ignite session 1

Ignite Session 1@CrisisMappers #ICCM

Ketty Adoch

@kadoch

Building a Tech Mapping Community in Uganda

Mapping day

Easymappr

Geobucket

Mapping day UG

Building a robust OSM community in Uganda

www.mappingday.com

@mapuganda

http://www.mappingday.com/

Past

3 years

Total mapping events = 25

Trained 400+ people

Present

More mapping events

Monthly meet-ups

Talk-Ug OSM mailing list

Future

More mapping

Community, Community

Low Tech Mapping

Training session

Tech Tools

EasyMappr

Geobucket

Easymappr

Maps one feature at a time

www.easymappr.com

http://www.easymappr.com/

Typical User Interface

Easymappr

Plots the feature to OSM

On OSM

Geobucket

www.geobucket.org

http://www.geobucket.org/

Geobucket

tracks the longitude and latitude of a phone

Un-intrusive for non-mappers

anonymous

Data

Saves traces to local database

Uploads to website

OSM id editor

allowing roads/paths to be accurately mapped

Why we are doing this

Working with students and professionals

More detailed mapping

A valuable map

Recap

Building a robust OSM community

Very easy mapping tools

Thank You

[email protected]

@kadoch

mailto:[email protected]

Hemant Purohit@hemant_pt

Leveraging Social Media Communities To Assist Coordination

Whom to coordinate with, Why and How

Image Source: http://www.dashe.com/blog/social-learning/how-social-networks-can-harness-the-power-of-weak-ties/

http://www.dashe.com/blog/social-learning/how-social-networks-can-harness-the-power-of-weak-ties/

[Big] Citizen Sensing

• Do you know?

– #tweets In the first week of Hurricane Sandy?

– #tweets in the first two days of Oklahoma tornado?

Image: http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/using-an-internal-social-network-to-solve-real-business-problems/

http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/using-an-internal-social-network-to-solve-real-business-problems/

[Big] Ad-hoc Community

Image: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/how-we-identify-single-voices-in-a-crowd/

HOW BEST can responders hear and engage citizens of this community?

Me and @CeceVancePR are coordinating a clothing/food drive for families affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you would like to donate, DM us

Does anyone know how to donate clothes to hurricane #Sandy victims?

[REQUEST]

[OFFER]

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/how-we-identify-single-voices-in-a-crowd/

Uncoordinated Engagement

• May lead to second disaster to be managed:– Under-supply of required demands – Over-supply of not required resources

• Hurricane Sandy example, “Thanks, but no thanks”, NPR, Jan 12 2013

• Story link:http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168946170/thanks-but-no-thanks-when-post-disaster-donations-overwhelm

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168946170/thanks-but-no-thanks-when-post-disaster-donations-overwhelm





Coordinated Engagement

• Critical function of coordination1. Identify

– Demand– Supply

2. Match the complementary intentions

3. Engage with the important actors – Demander & Supplier– Community Influencer with high network reach

Identifying and Matching demand-supply is like Search!

• Query: – Demand of food

• Results: – Messages and users who are supplying of food

Enabling Relief Coordination

• Challenges:1. Ambiguity in expression

2. Matching intentions3. Verify

Anyone know where the nearest #RedCross is? I wanna give blood today to help the victims of hurricane Sandy.


• Challenges:1. Identifying demand-supply intentions is tricky!2. Matching intentions is also context sensitive!

• E.g., different times and geography

3. Verify

Me and @CeceVancePR are coordinating a clothing/food drive for families affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you would like to donate, DM us. (DEMAND)

I want to send some clothes for hurricane relief (SUPPLY)


• Challenges:1. Identifying demand-supply intentions is tricky!2. Matching intentions is also contextual!3. Assessing trust during verification

Me and @xyz123 are coordinating a clothing/food drive for families affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you would like to donate, DM us. (DEMAND)

Should I trust?

Examples from our analysis during Oklahoma Tornado

• Machine Learning driven classification system

• 2.1 million tweets crawled in the first 48 hours

• 7% related to donations– 1.3% monetary requests– ~500 non-monetary requests– ~150 resource/service offers

Text \"FOOD\" to 32333, REDCROSS to 90999, or STORM to

80888 to donate $10 in storm relief. #moore #oklahoma

#disasterrelief #donate

RESPONSE TEAMS

VICTIM SITE

If you would like to

volunteer today, help is desperately needed in Shawnee. Call 273-5331

for more info

Identify DEMAND

Image: http://offthewallsocial.com/tag/social-media/

http://offthewallsocial.com/tag/social-media/

RT @OpOKRelief: Southgate Baptist Church

on 4th Street in Moore has food, water, clothes, diapers, toys, and more. If you can't go,call 794

Does anyone know where to

send a check to donate to the

tornado victims?

Where do I go to help out for

volunteer work around Moore? Anyone know?

Identify SUPPLY

RESPONSE TEAMS

CITIZEN SENSORS



Text \"FOOD\" to 32333, REDCROSS to 90999, or

STORM to 80888 to donate $10 in storm

relief. #moore #oklahoma


VICTIM SITE

Does anyone know where to send a check to donate to the

tornado victims?

Where do I go to help out for volunteer work around Moore? Anyone know?

If you would like to volunteer today, help is desperately needed in

Shawnee. Call 273-5331 for more info

RESPONSE TEAMS

CITIZEN SENSORS

Identify CONTEXT



Text \"FOOD\" to 32333, REDCROSS to 90999, or

STORM to 80888 to donate $10 in storm

relief. #moore #oklahoma


VICTIM SITE

Does anyone know where to send a check to donate to the

tornado victims?

Where do I go to help out for

volunteer work around

Moore? Anyone know?

Matched

Matched

If you would like to volunteer today, help is desperately needed in

Shawnee. Call 273-5331 for more info

RESPONSE TEAMS

CITIZEN SENSORS

Match DEMAND-SUPPLY



Bring Humans in Processing Loop

• Automation may not be enough for coordination– Missing information– Authentication– Verification

• Future: Create VerityClicker and VerifyClicker

Coordinated Engagement InterfaceVisualize Network reach of

Influencer

Categorizing Influencer by need type

View/Engage Influencer profiles and

their messages

Engagement Interface for Demand-Supply in Space & Time

What-Where-How-Who-Why Coordination Summarization of

Demand and Supply related messages

Contextual Information for a

chosen topical tags

Conclusion

• A focus on demand-supply centric technology for social media can assist coordination

• Actionable filtering rather than generic

• Contact: [email protected] , @hemant_pt


Acknowledgement

• NSF SoCS project at Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)

• Advisers: Profs. A. Sheth & S. Parthasarathy (Computer Science), V. Shalin & J. Flach (Pyschology)

• Mentors: Drs. C. Castillo, P. Meier, F. Diaz, M. Nagarajan, A. Dow

Contact: [email protected] , @hemant_pt

http://www.knoesis.org/research/semsoc/projects/socs




http://knoesis.org/


http://knoesis.org/

Oludotun Babayemi@dotunbabayemi

THE “WHERE” CLOUD ????

BEFORE 2012

LATE 2012

http://www.voanews.com/content/nigerian-activists-google-map-capital-city-abuja/1591551.html

http://www.voanews.com/content/nigerian-activists-google-map-capital-city-abuja/1591551.html

1 DAY TRAINING4 DAYS OF INTENSE MAPPING1 DAY ICE BREAKER ;)COORDINATION BY EMAIL , TWITTER AND SMS

70% - Local Citizens30% - Government

Free and open DataContinued Collaboration

“We need a space to alwaysCome together” – government Officials and citizens

WHO USES THESE TECHNOLOGIES?

WHO ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE?

?Many Thanks

Matt McNabb@caerusgeo @mattrmcnabb

In Praise of Paper?

insight no. 1start at the first mile

From Last Mile to First Mile

#First Mile Data

Where It Begins

GDELT Mexico

Monrovia

Aleppo

insight no. 2place ≠ time of crisis

Time of Crisis Place of

Crisis

Servicing the Ecosystem

Key

Punch

Operator

…?

insight no. 3the economy of data

Map/Atlas

insight no. 4drive local value

SaaS in the First Mile?

HELLO @CaerusGEO.com

Kuo-Yu slayer Chuang@darkensiva

Two-tier Crowdsourcing for Disaster Information Collection and Coordination

CrowdsourcedReports

Not Verified

Platform

Filter

Trusted

NGO

Not Verified

Platform

Trusted

GovernmentMilitary

NoiseFilter

Opinion Leader

Simulation with NGO to get more feedbacks on our platform

Training courses for NGO Volunteers to get familiar with ICT tool

1st Generation UI 2nd Generation UI

3rd Generation UI Current UI

Simulation of an Incident Reported by NGO Volunteer

Incident/Task Dispatched with SituationDesk of NGO

Task Received by Supportive VolunteerGeo-tagged SMS works without Data Roaming

Real-time Rain-fall, Water Level, Road Blocked, Tasked Satellite ImageMake this platform to be the SituationDesk for NGO

Happy Face Map for Volunteers of NGO

NGO #1

CoordinationPlatformNGO #2

NGO #3

Trusted

SituationDesk Ushahidi

Mash-up of Government Data and Announcement, Military SupportsNGO Actions, and Public Response

“Re-tweeted” Report to Ushahidi by NGO

NGO #1


NGO #3

MoreTrustedReports

Public Noise

Public Noise

NGO #1


NGO #3

MoreTrustedReportsandResponses

Public Noise

Public Noise

iHelp, Disability is NOT Inability

GeoThings, ICT for Humanitarian

Natalie Chang@hinatchang

“…humanitarians must adapt to the idea of information

as a basic need in humanitarian response…

…The network age [allows] humanitarian organizations

to…incorporate more information from people

affected by crisis into their decisions and

potentially enable communities to be true

stakeholders.”

“Humanitarianism in the Network Age”

UN OCHA Policy and Studies Series, 2013

January - February 2013Humanitarian Data Toolkit Pilot Dadaab, Kenya

Flexible Data Collection: Paper & Mobile Phones

+

Integrated Data Collection & Analysis

Paper – Digitized via Captricity

Mobile – Uploaded via FormHub

No Internet? No electricity? No problem!

Improved Efficiency: Enumerator Accuracy

Improved Efficiency: Mobile Reduces Time & Error

Next Steps: Bamboo Rapid Data Analysis System

Next Steps: Additional Components & Redesign

Next Steps: Growing the HDT Community

Let’s talk!

[email protected]@hinatchang | @info_innovation

[email protected]

HumanitarianDataToolkit.org



Mark van Embden Andres@ElvaTeam

OPEN SOURCE PLATFORMFOR MONITORING LOCAL NEEDS

@ElvaTeamwww.Elva.org

ELVA.ORG


CROWDSOURCING


WORKyour

CROWD

PEOPLE @ElvaTeamwww.Elva.org


CROWDS LIKE

FEEDBACK


&


DIALOGUE


NON-MATERIAL

INCENTIVES


AUTOMATED, LOCALISED

WEATHER FORECASTS


POPULAR INCENTIVES• FREE VETERINARIAN CONSULTATION

• NOTIFICATIONS OF EPIDEMICS

• AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION


ACCESSIBLE UI

GAMIFICATION

LOCAL LANGUAGES

OPEN SOURCE

BROAD RANGE OF DEVICES

DIFFERENT REPORTING FORMATS

MATERIAL INCENTIVES

NON-MATERIAL INCENTIVES

PERSONAL CONTACT

TRAININGS

OPEN SOURCE PLATFORMFOR MONITORING LOCAL NEEDS


ELVA.ORG

Nickson Nyakambi@NyakambiNickson

CrisisInformatics

Microblogging

Collective Intelligence

Digital Convergence

Emergency Medicine

Policy Issues

Facing the Use of Social

Network Information

During Times of Crisis.

Reach a Wider Audience

Send and Receive Emergency Alerts !!

Monitor the Conversation

Integrate data sources for situational awareness

Collaborate with Responders

mobile and web technologies save lives

Health Informatics Crisis Informatics

Chris Orwa@blackorwa

Building Smart Filters for Election Crowdsourcing

www.ihub.co.ke/research@ihubresearch

http://www.ihub.co.ke/research

Image courtesy of jtoy.net

CASE STUDY:Assessing the Viability of Crowdsourcing

During Elections in Kenya March 2013

Machine Learning

Methodology

• Broad keyword filters• Sampling the data• Annotating tweets• Build a classifier• Iterate the process to improve

accuracy

Advantages• Obtain unique incidence during an

election• Enable comparative analysis• Imperative to first responders• Solves the problem of information

overload

Information Dense Environments

www.ihub.co.ke/research@ihubresearch

[email protected]

Digital humanitarianism now has additional information in its knowledge vault

http://www.ihub.co.ke/research

Amanda Donahue@GeoPoll

Reaching Millions on Mobile Across

Africa

Amanda Donahue [email protected] @donahue.amanda

Max Richman [email protected] @richmanmax




Image: Ericisson

Image: US Census Bureau

Image: Tuppus [flickr]

Image: swanksalot [flickr]

Image: GSMA SSAMO 2012

2013 Internet Penetration Estimate

Image: Economist 2013

Image: orlovic [wikipedia]

Reach PeopleAssess Needs

Send AirtimeSend Cash Grants

Thank you for participating in ICCM 2013!

Many thanks to our sponsors!

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