Social Technologies at the GWU Humanitarian Mapping Workshop

Community Mapping & Humanitarianism(the Geo kind)Mapping Humanitarianism Workshop, January 20, 2011, GWUMikel Maron, mikel_maron@yahoo.com, @mikel(Practitioner)Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://hot.openstreetmap.orgGroundTruth Initiative http://groundtruth.in/

TechnologiesOpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org kinda like Wikipedia for maps

TechnologiesUshahidi http://ushahidi.com/ crisis reporting

TechnologiesOpen, etc.

Compelling EvidenceHaiti Earthquake Response http://www.unfoundation.org/assets/pdf/disaster-relief-20-the.pdf

Compelling EvidenceMap Kibera http://mapkibera.org/

Trust? Reliability? Verifiability?The usual question

CrowdsourcingThe wrong question and the wrong term*Successful "crowdsourcing" projects are very complex structures

Communities and RelationshipsTechnology is adapting to and enhancing the real structure of humansocieties

How Do We Foster Community in theHumanitarian Context?that is the question

Technology Volunteerism DevelopingCountries is very differentthan in Washington D.C.

You have to Hustleto have food cooking at the end of the day

Technology Does Make Change • Promotes Conversation • Open Data Persists as a Common Good • User/Community CenteredBut • Power imbalance does not automatically change

Break the Habit of AidPeople are still thought of as recipients, rather than leadersKibera brought to you by...

Love Data. What about Stories?Data is an easy win in Humanitarianism. Expression and voices of people,hard to listen.

Commercialization of Humanitarian TechCommunities are big business http://www.globalintegrity.org/blog/google-world-bank-map-deal

The Project Timeline Does Not SupportCommunitiesRelationships develop on a different pace than projects

The Emergency Response Cycle Does NotSupport Sustainable CommunitiesCOSMHA(Haiti OpenStreetMap)

Change can happen, slowlyCOSMHA is lead on projects to HOTSoley Leve is entirely grassroots http://soley-leve.org/map/

ThanksMikel Maron, mikel_maron@yahoo.com, @mikel

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