1. Power of Internet
and
What Developers Can
Do for the Society
Google Developer Relations
Fumi Yamazaki
https://plus.google.com/+FumiYamazaki/

2. 2011.3.11 14.46 JST
Magnitude 9.0
Photo: CC BY-NC-SA by Fumi Yamazaki

3. Photo: CC BY-NC-SA by Fumi Yamazaki

4. Photo: CC BY-NC-SA by Fumi Yamazaki

5. Phases and actions
1. Respond
2. Rebuild
3. Remember
4. Prepare

6. Respond

7. Person Finder
Lessons learned: Speed is important
Launched 2 hours after the earthquake

8. Person Finder
Lessons learned: Adjust to reality / Trust people
10,000 photos 5,000 volunteers 670,000 records

9. Migration of Data
- National Police Agency
- Local governments
- NHK (national broadcaster)
- Mobile telecom carriers
- Shelter information

10. Rebuild

11. Create Online Presence
Create Online Business
http://www.innovationtohoku.com/

12. Create Future Industry
-Tohoku Tech Dojo-
https://sites.google.com/site/tohokudojo/

13. Remember

14. Memories for Future
2008/7
Before tsunami
2011/8
4 months after
2013/5
2 years after
http://www.miraikioku.com/en/

15. Prepare

16. Project 311
-Great East Japan Earthquake
Big Data Workshop-
• https://sites.google.com/site/prj311e/

17. Data providers
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Google
Twitter
Honda
Zenrin Data Com
Asahi Newspaper
NHK
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Rescue Now
JCC
Bit.ly
Weather News
Japan Weather Association

18. Data provided
• Traveled roads data
• Railroad operation information
• Realtime population estimation
• Newspaper articles
• Transcripts of the audio broadcasted by NHK
• Text summary of TV programs
• Japanese tweets
• Search query trends

19. Participants
• Hackers and developers
• Researchers from academia
• Researchers from private companies
• Bureaucrats from ministries
• Journalists

20. Project Hayano
http://speedi.mapping.jp/

21. Media Coverage Map
http://media.mapping.jp/

22. Importance of
Open Data

23. Getting the data

24. Simulation by SPEEDI

25. Simulation by SPEEDI

26. Simulation by SPEEDI

27. Simulation by SPEEDI

28. Make Data Useful

31. Quote from citizen in Fukushima
“I cannot go out of my house without looking at this app”

32. Make Data Available

33. DIY Geiger counters

37. SPEED
Photo: CC BY by John Talbot

38. KNOW THE TOOLS
Photo: CC BY-SA by Janne Moren

39. POWERFUL TOOLS
Photo: CC BY-SA by Charles & Hudson

40. 1,000 USD App Engine
1,000 USD Compute Engine
cloud.google.com/starterpack
promo code: fuy-in

41. SHARE
Photo: CC BY-SA by Bob Peterson

42. END USERS
Photo: CC BY-SA by Ben Grey

43. UNDERSTAND NEEDS
Photo: CC BY-SA by losheungchi1987

44. Work on
Things that Matter

45. Technology Can Help
Make a Better Society

46. Developers Can Help
Make a Better World

47. Just in Japan?

48. Hurricane
Manuel e Ingrid
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-emergency-flights-taketourists-from-flooded-acapulco-1.1857325
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-20/rescuers-search-for-68people-missing-after-mexican-mudslide/4970402

49. Haiyan / Yolanda
Typhoon in Philippines
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-07/philippines-braces-forhaiyan-seen-as-2013-s-strongest-typhoon.html

50. GDG/GBG/GSA
launched Crisis Map
Google Developers Group
Google Business Group
Google Student Ambassadors
http://google.org/crisismap/a/gmail.com/TyphoonYolanda

51. Incorporated in the
Philippine Government
Crisis Response Site
http://www.gov.ph/crisis-response/updates-typhoon-yolanda/

52. Person Finder
by Google Crisis Response
http://www.google.org/personfinder/2013-yolanda

53. Project Agos
Collaborative Disaster Map
http://www.rappler.com/rich-media/43075-yolandaph-helpmap-criticial-report-agos

54. Project Noah
Crisis Information Site
http://noah.dost.gov.ph/

55. Hack4good Hackathon
for Crisis Response
https://geekli.st/hackathon/52793a2660fb3f52d50001f8

56. Just for disaster?

57. Code for
Ciudad de Mexico

58. http://opendata.mx/

59. Open Data Hackathon
Mexico City
January, 2014

60. Open Data
http://datos.labplc.mx/datasets/

61. Open Data
http://lab.data4.mx/

62. Hack For Japan

63. https://sites.google.com/site/hackforjapan/

64. Gracias!

67. Deleted slides

68. Drivable Map