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The document summarizes Patrick Meier's work using crowdsourcing and crisis mapping to help with humanitarian crises. It notes that his Standby Volunteer Task Force has mapped over 3 million square kilometers affected by the Horn of Africa crisis, identifying over 47,000 shelters. The task force tagged over 250,000 items and collected nearly 4,000 images in 120 hours to help relief efforts. It also mentions his work mapping human rights violations in Syria and quotes him saying real-time crisis maps with satellite photos are almost as good as having a helicopter for understanding crisis situations.
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Meier where20 2012
- 5. 3,000,000 square kilometers
- 12. Crisis in the Horn of Africa
- 14. Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) www.CrisisMappers.net http://blog.StandbyTaskforce.com
- 20. 120 hours 253,711 tags 3,909 images ~47,500 shelters
- 21. Ushahidi.com
- 23. Human Rights Violations in Syria
- 32. “Having a real-time map complete with satellite photos, of where everyone is at any one moment is almost as good as having your own helicopter”
- 34. Thank You Patrick@ushahidi.com @PatrickMeier
Editor's Notes
- Hi everyone, many thanks for coming to my talk. My name is Patrick Meier and my mission over the past six years has been to create linkages between the humanitarian community and the technology space. Humanitarian organizations are still lagging far far behind in technology adoption. And technology companies are rarely thinking of how their technology could potentially revolutionize the humanitarian space. So this is where I come in. For my talk today, I want to share with you some unique innovations in humanitarian technology as applied to crisis mapping and more specifically satellite imagery analysis for crisis response. Lets begin by placing these innovations into context.
- Small team
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- 253,711shelters168 volunteers 3,909 satellite images in 120 hours.
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- Lets begin our first map on January 12th, 2010, at 4pm, to be exact. We turn on the TV and see this…
- They say that history is written by the victors. But now, before the victors win,there is a chance to scream out with a text message that will not vanish.What would we know about what passed between Turks and Armenians,between Germans and Jews, if every one of them had had the chance,before the darkness, to declare for all time: “I was here, and this is what happened to me”?
- They say that history is written by the victors. But now, before the victors win,there is a chance to scream out with a text message that will not vanish.What would we know about what passed between Turks and Armenians,between Germans and Jews, if every one of them had had the chance,before the darkness, to declare for all time: “I was here, and this is what happened to me”?
- No public!!
- We’ve seen this happen in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, the US and Syria, to name a fewIn the case of Syria, we also partnered with Amnesty International and Tomnod to comb through high-resolution satellite imagery for further evidence of mass human rights violations. Because there was so much imagery, we recruited hundreds of volunteers from around the world to crowdsource the analysis of this imagery.Shared, synchronized awareness, HabermasSecurity issues -> satellite imageryADD OCCUPY WS SCREEN SHOT!!
- We’ve seen this happen in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, the US and Syria, to name a fewIn the case of Syria, we also partnered with Amnesty International and Tomnod to comb through high-resolution satellite imagery for further evidence of mass human rights violations. Because there was so much imagery, we recruited hundreds of volunteers from around the world to crowdsource the analysis of this imagery.Shared, synchronized awareness, HabermasSecurity issues -> satellite imageryADD OCCUPY WS SCREEN SHOT!!
- Come along way since the Google Earth helicopter for Darfur