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Update on InSTEDD's work in the Mekong regionCreative Commons noncommercial, attribution, sharealike.TRANSCRIPT
WHAT APPROACHES WILL HELP US ADAPT TO A CHANGING
WORLD AND PREPARE FOR THE UNEXPECTED?
Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 2004
IN OUR OPINION, COLLABORATION MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
• Diverse groups self-organize seamlessly into a coherent whole.
• The flow of information is:
– free, reliable, secure,
– up, down, sideways,
– timely, accurate, complete, relevant, and credible.
• The response is agile, coordinated, efficient, and effective.
WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE
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
Ignoring the local community
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InSTEDD
Improve event detection and humanitarian response
Socio-technical organization and mission
Collaboration technologies
Worldwide, with field laboratory in Phnom Penh
Free & open source
CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS CREATE A PRESSURE COOKER FOR INNOVATION
GRAMEEN SOLUTIONSGRAMEEN SHAKTIGRAMEEN KAYLANGRAMEEN PHONE
Free Open source Standards
The InSTEDD Technology Platform
Mesh4X: Share Data Across All Boundaries– MESH4X lets you integrate applications, devices, and information seamlessly
into a shared, synchronized, distributed data mesh
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
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
INFORMATION FLOW
Nokia Phone with Khmer script support, and an unlikely fortune cookie note
InSTEDD GEOCHATSMS, Twitter, email, … LocationOpen and Closed GroupsExplicit or Automatic LocationSMS-Only interactionAPI Semi-structured information, extensible pipeline
INTEROPERABILITY
Laptops from all over the world come together to integrate medical records systems, HISA South Africa 2008
A synchronization framework for seamless information sharingMesh4x
• Fuse data from diverse applications, sources, and devices
• Synchronize data automatically between databases, files, websites, desktop software, PDAs, maps, and the Cloud
• HTTP, files & SMS• RESTFull N-way data sync• Open standards: FeedSync, RSS/ATOM,
XForms, RDF• Multiple channels: http, files, SMS• Available in both .NET and Java
Come and play - Mesh4x.org
•MySQL•Hibernate•MSAccess•MSExcel•AmazonS3•JavaROSA•EpiInfo•KML (G Earth)
SHARING DATA IS DISRUPTIVE
Les Lenert from CDC briefs about technologies they consider disruptive. Mesh4x changes the game of data ownership and storage lock-in
FROM DATA TO COLLECTIVE ACTION
InSTEDD Evolve 1.0Collaborative decision support around streams of information
Features:• Create collaborative workspaces
• Subscribe to data
• Sift through the data for emerging events
• Annotate items with tags, comments, ratings, links, locations, files, alerts, and other social metadata
• Autonomous agents perform data extensions, feature extraction, classification, tagging, geo-coding
• Human teams act with augmentation of machine learning
ARCHITECTUREDECENTRALIZED
OCCASIONALLY CONNECTED
INTREROPERABILITY
SECURITY
TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UPDECOUPLED
USER-EMPOWERINGDIVERSITY
CONTEXT AWAREDYNAMIC
…CONSTANT EXPLORATION!DATA AS A BUILDING BLOCK
PATTERNS - SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM IN A CONTEXT
PATTERN LANGUAGES FOR ISSUES THAT MATTER IN THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD?
HUMAN INTERACTION DESIGN
Balsamiq Mockups
InSTEDD Innovation Lab
Socio-technical labNeutral space for gov, org, edu & com In-situ interaction designDissolving silos of data & trustLocal Sustainable Innovation
Thank You!Eric Rasmussen [email protected] @rasmussene
Buddhist monks bless the InSTEDD Innovation Lab and our generator, 2009. As far as illusions go, electricity is a darn useful one
Eduardo Jezierski [email protected] @edjez