ETech2008 DisasterTech Robbins Maron 20080305a

Disaster Tech Mikel Maron Jesse Robbins

Learn how to turn your emerging technology into lifesaving technology.

Pattern: Disaster Tech Innovation 1.Disaster 2.Ad-Hoc Adaptation 3.Championship 4.Iterative Improvement

Hurricane Katrina ‣ 1800+ Dead ‣ Millions displaced ‣ $81+ Billion in Damage

Ad-Hoc Adaptation: Many Using Gmaps http://twitter.com/nateritter

ARC: “Take the I-90 bridge...” Jesse: “The bridge is destroyed” ARC: “but Google says...”

Problem: Google Maps isn’t Realtime Post Katrina 2007 2007 http://twitter.com/nateritter

Champion: OpenStreetMap (OSM)

Iteration: UN considering OSM •UNJLC Interagency Humanitarian Common Service •Building UNSDI-t from the top down •But now considering OSM for lightweight, open bottom up

San Diego Wildﬁres ‣ 900,000+ Evacuees ‣ 500,000 Acres Burned ‣ 1500+ Homes Destroyed

Ad-Hoc Adaptation: Nate Ritter’s Twitters http://twitter.com/nateritter http://twitter.com/nateritter

Ad-hoc Adaptation: American Red Cross http://twitter.com/redcross

Champion: InSTEDD - SMS GeoChat

Iteration: InSTEDD Working with traditional Disaster Agencies to build new tools. Distributing work as Open Source

Boxing Day Tsunami 225,000 Dead

Boxing Day Tsunami 225,000 Deaths Preventable with existing technologies

Ad-Hoc Adaptation: JRC Tsunami Model 1.USGS GeoRSS earthquake feed 2.EU Commission lightweight tsunami propagation model 3.GeoRSS polygons republished

Ad-Hoc Adaptation: JRC Tsunami Model

Champion: GDACS: Global Disaster Alert & Coordination System http://www.gdacs.org

Iteration: Pending. Will these technologies save lives? We won’t know until they do... or don’t.

saving lives means losing lives

anti-pattern

Anti-Pattern 1.Disaster 2.Ad-Hoc Adaptation 3.Championship 4.Iterative Improvement

Ad-hoc Adaptation: Tenacious Search Distributed analysis of imagery for Search & Rescue Images put into Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing tool. Possible hits sent to experts for review.

Source: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-08/ff_jimgray_lost

Champion: none. Public now believes that this is easily repeatable.

Iteration: Steve Fossett Search Inadequate training for volunteers. Many false positives. People called SAR teams directly which hindered search.

Anti-Pattern “In hindsight, I wish it hadn’t been there, because it didn’t produce a darn thing that was productive except for being a giant black hole for energy, time and resources. There may come a day when this technology is capable of doing what it says it can deliver, but boy, that’s not now.” - Maj. Cynthia Ryan http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/11/08/the-perils-of-the-distributed-approach/

New Champions: InternetSAR

New Champions: InternetSAR “ABSOLUTELY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES are InternetSAR.org participants to report objects found in imagery we provide directly to search authorities. [...] The reason for this policy is that our systems are set up to manage and ﬁlter reports for search teams and those who bypass our reporting system can actually impede the efforts of search teams.”

Be Champions

you don’t choose the moment... the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does... -Chief Mike Burtch Mikel Maron - mikel@mapufacture.com Jesse Robbins - jesse@oreilly.com

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