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InSTEDD GeoChat Communicate with Everyone

I need a reliable way to get headquarters, responders, and the local community communicating – and quickly. The problem is… ?

InSTEDD GeoChat 1.0 Disaster-ready Group Communications Use SMS text messaging to coordinate with your team on the surface of a map! Keep government agencies, first responders, and the local community in sync Broadcast alerts, form teams, and swarm around critical events as they unfold

GeoChat Integrating mobile field communications with situational awareness

GeoChat integrates your data for enhanced decision support news feeds, sensor data, imagery, infrastructure, incidents, supplies, facilities, requests….

InSTEDD GeoChat: Adaptive Communications Infrastructure

Concept: InSTEDD GeoWatch Real-time mobile community watch service for public safety and disaster preparedness
Register your mobile phone and home address
Alert your neighbors of suspicious activities
See who is available and reach out to them for help
Make decisions together and coordinate your response
Stay connected by SMS from anywhere in the world.
Link with EMS, police, and local criminal activity mapping

InSTEDD Mesh4X Share Information with Anyone

The data I need to make decisions is trapped in silos Different organizations. Different networks. Different applications. Different formats. Different devices.
How can I share what I know with others?
How can I use the data I have access to wherever I am?
How can I get everyone on the same page quickly?
How do I keep everyone in sync as the situation changes?
? ? ?

Mesh4X 1.0 Adaptive Data Integration “Edge-ware”
Fuse diverse applications, data sources, and devices into a seamless “mesh” of free-flowing information
Share your data selectively and securely with different organizations using different applications
Synchronize data automatically between databases, spreadsheets, websites, applications, phones, PDAs, and maps
Synchronize over the Internet, or by SMS text messages
Open source software based on open data standards
A synchronization framework for seamless information sharing A synchronization system for seamless cross-boundary information sharing Mesh4x Framework

Mesh4X – Epi Info™:
Each epidemiologist collects patient case data, offline, for a given county.
All three then plug mobile phones into their laptops and click “Synchronize.”
Now they have each others’ latest data and can see it all on a map!
Mesh4X 1.0 CDC creates a health surveillance “data mesh”

Mesh4X 1.0
Benefits:
Database, device, application and platform independent
Make changes anywhere. See the changes everywhere.
Allows secure communications and encrypted data storage to protect privacy
Socio-politically neutral architecture where no one party controls the only copy of the data
Multiple, distributed copies of data mean no single point of failure
Designed to keep working when Internet access is slow, unreliable, or entirely unavailable
Mesh4x High-Level Architecture: The Mesh4X – Epi Info™ Prototype

InSTEDD Evolve Make Better Decisions Together

How can I detect the early, faint signals of an impending crisis? ?

EVOLVE Collaborative Event Detection & Decision Support Combine human expertise, machine learning, and visualization. Evolve your understanding.

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

Example: H1N1 Swine Flu Tracking Workspace for WHO

Evolve 1.0
Benefits:
Detect emerging critical events sooner
Combine human and machine expertise
The system learns from past events – and how you handled them
Fully extensible open source platform

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