GeoChat is a platform for informed collective action through national, regional, and local gateways. It allows users to connect, visualize locations on a map, report what they see on the ground, receive critical alerts and news stories, and decide the best course of action jointly. The document outlines current and potential future uses of GeoChat, including isolation wards, referral labs, women's agricultural groups, tracking orcas, clinical management of AIDS and TB, neighborhood watch, and commodity prices. It also discusses future improvements such as simpler interfaces, wider adoption, additional data layers, offline use, encryption, sensor integration, and integration with social networks and analytics.

1. GeoChat
Informed Collective Action
Luke Beckman
National Response Liaison
InSTEDD

6. National, Regional, Local Gateways
Public, Private, Anonymous
Field-based awareness
Radio-like comms
Platform Agnostic
Local language
Easy Integration
Pull/Push RSS
Open-Source
Geo-Coded
Alerts
GeoChat Free
APIs

7. GeoChat
Connect Visualize Report Receive Decide
Web, SMS, one another’s what you are critical alerts the best
email, Twitter, locations on seeing on the and news course of
or Skype the map ground stories action jointly

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14. Isolation Wards
Referral Labs Human Cases

15. Women’s Co-op Agricultural Groups
Tracking Orcas
AIDS and TB Clinical Management
Neighborhood Watch
Daily Commodity Prices
Earthquake Refugee Camp Management

18. Email for the Bottom Billion

19. The Future
• Simpler User Interface
• Wider Adoption
• Import additional data layers
• Sync structured data (requests, reports, etc.) on to the map.
• Offline client for disconnected operations
• Pluggable encryption
• Sensor integration
• SmartPhone/PDA client
• Social Networking
• Integrated Analytics – tag clouds, entity extraction, etc.
• Radio integration? Voice? Video?

21. Thank You!
Luke Beckman
650-740-5853
beckman@instedd.org