Understanding Risk Forum 2016
Presented as part of the panel Bridging the Divide: Digital Humanitarians and the Nepal Earthquake
Venice Italy
May 20, 2016
Talk by Heather Leson
ICT Applied to Crisis Management and Seismic Risk Assessment for Post Event M...Alireza Babaee
Final project presentation for the courses:
ICT Applied to Crisis Management &
Seismic Risk Assessment for Post Event Management
Submitted by:
- Maryam Izadifar
- Alireza Babaee
- Lorenzo Vidus Rosin
- Vincenzo Milesi
Submitted To:
Professors:
Menoni, Mejri, Boni
Politecnico di Milano
July 2015
ICT Applied to Crisis Management and Seismic Risk Assessment for Post Event M...Alireza Babaee
Final project presentation for the courses:
ICT Applied to Crisis Management &
Seismic Risk Assessment for Post Event Management
Submitted by:
- Maryam Izadifar
- Alireza Babaee
- Lorenzo Vidus Rosin
- Vincenzo Milesi
Submitted To:
Professors:
Menoni, Mejri, Boni
Politecnico di Milano
July 2015
The Centre for Humanitarian Data and the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are convening a Data Literacy Consortium. The Data Playbook Beta project is a prototype of social learning designed on modularized pick-and-choose model for 30 minute to 1 hour conversations or lunch and learns. Playbooks are designed to be guided by the users and leaders to decide what ‘activity’ or ‘action’ best suits the given need.
This presentation was part of the Humanitarian Network Partnership Week (HNPW) https://vosocc.unocha.org/GetFile.aspx?xml=rss/5553avUoDK9oBXk5WjCq32t1ttUfc38nDpek4dR1ieeonUgx_27042_l1.html&tid=5553&laid=1&sm=
February 4, 2019 Geneva Switzerland
Co-hosted by Heather Leson (IFRC) and Javier Teran (Centre for Humanitarian Data)
Session goals: 1. Discuss the Data Playbook (beta) project and invite participants to co-create the Data Playbook version 1.
2. Convene a Data Literacy Consortium to support humanitarian data literacy.
Content:
https://www.preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook
Organizations:
https://centre.humdata.org/
http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/theme/data/
When we say open...h
How can open principles and methods be supported in communities & organizations How can we build in the open?
Talk given at #jam18
Barcelona November 28, 2018
https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/jam18
Heather Leson
(Revised talk)
Welcome to the IFRC Data Playbook Beta Project. It was co-created by 100s of collaborators across the globe. We aim to get data ready. We also want to warmly thank our co-editor, Dirk Slater of Fabriders.
For more details contact: data.literacy AT IFRC Dot Org
See the beta project - https://www.preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook
When we say open, what do we really mean? How are open communities and organizations performing. What are some of the observations and lessons from two viewpoints – an organization (humanitarian) – International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies and global community - OpenStreetMap. How are some of the topics/challenges and issues similar and different? What can we do as open advocates to inspire and build change in organizations of all types?
Talk given October 7, 2018, Taipei, G0V Summit https://summit.g0v.tw
The International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is supporting a data-driven organization that makes evidence-based decisions. In the Humanitarian and business world, there is a data revolution. Data skills and data readiness are key components to achieve and meet the changing needs.growing a data-driven organization that makes evidence-based decisions. Our IFRC Data Literacy plan is 4 fold - connect emerging and new leaders, build learning zones, create content/products and measure impact. This is an overview of the 2017 Data Literacy Program.
Learn more - http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/theme/data/
About IFRC - http://www.ifrc.org/
Icon Credits via the Noun Project: TNS, TukTuk, Look and Feel and Thibault Geoffrey
Created by Heather Leson. Detailed notes include resources and credits. Contact heather.leson at IFRC dot ORG
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Summit 2016 Keynote
September 22, 2016
Brussels, Belgium
Some core questions that we need to address as we build a sustainable, vibrant Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Summit.hotosom.org
hotosm.org
textontechs.com
@heatherleson
The Next Million
ESA Earth Observation Summer School
Frascati (Rome), Italy
August 8, 2016
Summary: how can we get more people involved applying technical and research skills to tackle the SDGs. Includes extensive notes.
https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
MapSwipe: Crowdsourcing with Data-Driven Innovation
ESA Earth Observation Summer School
August 5, 2016
Frascati (Rome) Italy
MapSwipe is a mobile app available in on the Google Play and Itunes store (mapswipe.org). Humanitarian organizations can't help people if they can't find them. MapSwipe is a mobile app that lets you search satellite imagery to help put the world's most vulnerable people on the map.
This talk was to share how students can consider how to apply their technical and scientific skills to help solve issues with communities.
Building a Citizen Engaged Research Project
Earth Observation Summer School, ESA
ESRIN
Frascati (Rome) Italy
August 4, 2016
Summary: How can researchers incorporate citizen science into their work? Presenting some tools, best practices and techniques from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, OpenStreetMap and Qatar Computing Research Institute.
About Summer School - https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
About HOT - https://hotosm.org/
Our Common Startup
All around the world there is huge potential to make a difference with small businesses and volunteering. This presentation is part of Impact Startup Europe 2016
Presented by Heather Leson
May 26, 2016
http://impactstartupeurope.org/
Empower Digital Skills for Good
Reach out to Asia Empower 2016
Innovation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship
Doha Qatar
March 17 - 19th
Workshop on March 18th co-hosted by QCRI and UNDP
Presentation by Heather Leson, Jennifer Colville, Ji Kim Lucas and Irina Temnikova
Event details:
https://www.reachouttoasia.org/event-details/empower-2016
How can startups find data and use it to help their business?
Presentation for the Digital Incubation Center, Qatar Ministry of Transportation and Communications
Heather Leson
March 9, 2016
http://www.ictqatar.qa/en/dic
http://qcri.org.qa/
Data Driven Innovation in Qatar
Presentation for the Data-Driven Innovation Workshop in MENA
DDI-MENA.org
February 21, 2016
Thanks to IDRC and QCRI for this opportunity to share.
Qatar Computing Research Institute participated in the Qatar Science & Technology Park Accelerator Programme from September 2015 - January 2016.
The Team investigated business opportunities for the Crisis Computing research project.
About QCRI - qcri.org.qa
About QSTP - http://www.qstp.org.qa/
All inquires about this project should be directed to qcri.org.qa.
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Sajjad Anwar, Mapbox
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Ji Kim Lucas
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Heather Leson
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the absence of information. Mobile phones, new orbiting microsatellites,
and now Unmanned Aerial Vehicles increasingly generate vast volumes of data during major disasters. This flash flood of information is often referred to as Big Data, or Big Crisis Data. Making sense of this overflow of information is proving to be a near impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations, which is precisely why they’re turning to Digital Humanitarians. In virtually real‐time, these cyber responders
make sense of vast volumes of social media, SMS and imagery captured from satellites and UAVs to support relief efforts worldwide. How? They craft and leverage human and
machine computing solutions.
Presented by Heather Leson
October 13, 2015
EOScience 20
Frascati Italy
http://eoscience20.org/
Be a Digital Humanitarian In Qatar
Event co-hosted by the Qatar Computing Research Institute and Qatar Red Crescent.
October 7, 2015
Doha Qatar
Presented by Heather Leson
See more at textontechs.com
The Centre for Humanitarian Data and the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are convening a Data Literacy Consortium. The Data Playbook Beta project is a prototype of social learning designed on modularized pick-and-choose model for 30 minute to 1 hour conversations or lunch and learns. Playbooks are designed to be guided by the users and leaders to decide what ‘activity’ or ‘action’ best suits the given need.
This presentation was part of the Humanitarian Network Partnership Week (HNPW) https://vosocc.unocha.org/GetFile.aspx?xml=rss/5553avUoDK9oBXk5WjCq32t1ttUfc38nDpek4dR1ieeonUgx_27042_l1.html&tid=5553&laid=1&sm=
February 4, 2019 Geneva Switzerland
Co-hosted by Heather Leson (IFRC) and Javier Teran (Centre for Humanitarian Data)
Session goals: 1. Discuss the Data Playbook (beta) project and invite participants to co-create the Data Playbook version 1.
2. Convene a Data Literacy Consortium to support humanitarian data literacy.
Content:
https://www.preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook
Organizations:
https://centre.humdata.org/
http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/theme/data/
When we say open...h
How can open principles and methods be supported in communities & organizations How can we build in the open?
Talk given at #jam18
Barcelona November 28, 2018
https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/jam18
Heather Leson
(Revised talk)
Welcome to the IFRC Data Playbook Beta Project. It was co-created by 100s of collaborators across the globe. We aim to get data ready. We also want to warmly thank our co-editor, Dirk Slater of Fabriders.
For more details contact: data.literacy AT IFRC Dot Org
See the beta project - https://www.preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook
When we say open, what do we really mean? How are open communities and organizations performing. What are some of the observations and lessons from two viewpoints – an organization (humanitarian) – International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies and global community - OpenStreetMap. How are some of the topics/challenges and issues similar and different? What can we do as open advocates to inspire and build change in organizations of all types?
Talk given October 7, 2018, Taipei, G0V Summit https://summit.g0v.tw
The International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is supporting a data-driven organization that makes evidence-based decisions. In the Humanitarian and business world, there is a data revolution. Data skills and data readiness are key components to achieve and meet the changing needs.growing a data-driven organization that makes evidence-based decisions. Our IFRC Data Literacy plan is 4 fold - connect emerging and new leaders, build learning zones, create content/products and measure impact. This is an overview of the 2017 Data Literacy Program.
Learn more - http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/theme/data/
About IFRC - http://www.ifrc.org/
Icon Credits via the Noun Project: TNS, TukTuk, Look and Feel and Thibault Geoffrey
Created by Heather Leson. Detailed notes include resources and credits. Contact heather.leson at IFRC dot ORG
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Summit 2016 Keynote
September 22, 2016
Brussels, Belgium
Some core questions that we need to address as we build a sustainable, vibrant Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Summit.hotosom.org
hotosm.org
textontechs.com
@heatherleson
The Next Million
ESA Earth Observation Summer School
Frascati (Rome), Italy
August 8, 2016
Summary: how can we get more people involved applying technical and research skills to tackle the SDGs. Includes extensive notes.
https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
MapSwipe: Crowdsourcing with Data-Driven Innovation
ESA Earth Observation Summer School
August 5, 2016
Frascati (Rome) Italy
MapSwipe is a mobile app available in on the Google Play and Itunes store (mapswipe.org). Humanitarian organizations can't help people if they can't find them. MapSwipe is a mobile app that lets you search satellite imagery to help put the world's most vulnerable people on the map.
This talk was to share how students can consider how to apply their technical and scientific skills to help solve issues with communities.
Building a Citizen Engaged Research Project
Earth Observation Summer School, ESA
ESRIN
Frascati (Rome) Italy
August 4, 2016
Summary: How can researchers incorporate citizen science into their work? Presenting some tools, best practices and techniques from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, OpenStreetMap and Qatar Computing Research Institute.
About Summer School - https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
About HOT - https://hotosm.org/
Our Common Startup
All around the world there is huge potential to make a difference with small businesses and volunteering. This presentation is part of Impact Startup Europe 2016
Presented by Heather Leson
May 26, 2016
http://impactstartupeurope.org/
Empower Digital Skills for Good
Reach out to Asia Empower 2016
Innovation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship
Doha Qatar
March 17 - 19th
Workshop on March 18th co-hosted by QCRI and UNDP
Presentation by Heather Leson, Jennifer Colville, Ji Kim Lucas and Irina Temnikova
Event details:
https://www.reachouttoasia.org/event-details/empower-2016
How can startups find data and use it to help their business?
Presentation for the Digital Incubation Center, Qatar Ministry of Transportation and Communications
Heather Leson
March 9, 2016
http://www.ictqatar.qa/en/dic
http://qcri.org.qa/
Data Driven Innovation in Qatar
Presentation for the Data-Driven Innovation Workshop in MENA
DDI-MENA.org
February 21, 2016
Thanks to IDRC and QCRI for this opportunity to share.
Qatar Computing Research Institute participated in the Qatar Science & Technology Park Accelerator Programme from September 2015 - January 2016.
The Team investigated business opportunities for the Crisis Computing research project.
About QCRI - qcri.org.qa
About QSTP - http://www.qstp.org.qa/
All inquires about this project should be directed to qcri.org.qa.
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Sajjad Anwar, Mapbox
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Ji Kim Lucas
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Heather Leson
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the absence of information. Mobile phones, new orbiting microsatellites,
and now Unmanned Aerial Vehicles increasingly generate vast volumes of data during major disasters. This flash flood of information is often referred to as Big Data, or Big Crisis Data. Making sense of this overflow of information is proving to be a near impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations, which is precisely why they’re turning to Digital Humanitarians. In virtually real‐time, these cyber responders
make sense of vast volumes of social media, SMS and imagery captured from satellites and UAVs to support relief efforts worldwide. How? They craft and leverage human and
machine computing solutions.
Presented by Heather Leson
October 13, 2015
EOScience 20
Frascati Italy
http://eoscience20.org/
Be a Digital Humanitarian In Qatar
Event co-hosted by the Qatar Computing Research Institute and Qatar Red Crescent.
October 7, 2015
Doha Qatar
Presented by Heather Leson
See more at textontechs.com
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9. Thank You!
See you at the HOT Summit
https://summit.hotosm.org/
@heatherleson
Textontechs.com
Editor's Notes
Presented at https://understandrisk.org/event-session/bridging-the-divide/
Digital preparedness and response is growing. One of Dr. Chung-Ping (Joesph) Yang’s students said ‘I could walk in the data and could understand my country, my history and how I could help”. This is the power of connecting risk needs, education with openstreetmap communities.
Here is his webpage http://www.csie.ncku.edu.tw/ncku_csie/depmember/teacherdetail/id/21?lang=en
These satellite and aerial imageries are from two very different parts of the world. The image on the left is from Nepal and is satellite imagery. The image on the right is aerial imagery from Tanzania. How can we connect companies, NGOs and Civil Society more. Risk reduction needs digital responders and programmes to be successful. Kathmandu Living Labs demonstrated this. Ramani Huria in Tanzania also shows the potential to connect civic leaders, students, digital communities like Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and INGO programmes like the World Bank’s work in Tanzania.
(photo credit: Understanding Risk Forum Newsletter, May 17, 2016) Images from OpenAerial map. (Image 1 (Right) : Msanani, Tanzania Open Data Initiative, OpenAerialMap, 2015-04-17) (Image 2 (left) Nepal, Astro Digital 2015-11-12, Landsat 8, (OAM LC81420402014316LGN00_bands_432.TIF) See more images from OpenAerialMap - http://openaerialmap.org/
LEARNING OVER TIME AND DISASTERS:
There were many other digital activations for disaster, conflict, international development and community building but these are some of the seminal turning points. Eg. See HOT’s full activation list http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team (Created with Canva)
SKILLS AND TRAINING DEMONSTRATED:
Allies at Mozilla Foundation aim to “teach the web”. Their framework is complimentary. https://teach.mozilla.org/web-literacy My goal with these is to demonstrate the type of skills that Digital Humanitarians or Digital Responders use. There are many organizations, partnerships, networks and individuals. Many of these skills you see in programmes and projects. How does anyone even start to learn. Where is the ‘introduction course? Some of these core skills have manuals and whole communities around. We could keep recruiting and training. But how can we scale this in a sustainable way. Many of the groups are stretched. UN OCHA recently released the a ‘Guidance for building a local Digital Responders Network’ http://blog.veritythink.com/post/140679788344/you-can-do-it-too-guidance-for-developing-a-local
FRAMEWORKS, PARTNERSHIPS: DHN Is one but there are others - civic tech communities, labs, hubs, civil society groups, software companies and more.
RESULTS OF PARTICIPATION : 9000 HOT, 450 SBTF, 2800 MM, TWB 60. SBTF also had volunteers from UNV https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/resources/newsletter_june_2015.html (Created with Infogram)
WHAT WAS DELIVERED - What worked https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/how-is-social-media-helping-disaster-response/ and http://civicus.org/thedatashift/learning-zone/community-essay/citizen-generated-data-maps/ (Created with Canva)
Change and Impact do not happen overnight. This year’s theme is building evidence for action. Often I feel like programmes are setup reverse “Building Action for Evidence”. This is why programmes that invest in long term efforts like Kathmandu Living Labs can really see benefits after months and years of work. https://understandrisk.org/ur2016-program/
Denis Carriere is an OSM member from Canada. He is with the Canadian Forces. he visited KLL during the emergency and encouraged official use of OSM. It is a long road to open. In Canada there is an emergency forest fire. He is one of a community working to get OSM up to date once imagery is available. This is the possibility where ever you live and work. The Alberta government created an app to help citizens be calm about their locations and homes. How could this method digital plus human care be used elsewhere (consider diaspora communities) http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-damage-satellite-1.3583052
HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS GET ENGAGED/WHAT NEEDS WORK - How can we make an open api for volunteering (cross multiple org/platforms. Eg linked in,social coding for good etc. A hipmunk aggregator for volunteers. Consider is digital volunteer front page focused on the user not just the orgs? How can we surface tasks to be done that are scoped for skills, time and goals with thanks? What does an open github curriculum look like? How can we match more experienced digital skilled folks with others? In HOT we are having some questions around validation. New folks need mentorship and ‘peer’ situations. What is the online version of missing maps or other collaborative contributions? (See soon to be released paper - A quality comparison between expert and crowdsourced data in emergency mapping for a potential service integration: The Nepal Earthquake case- Agata Elia, Simone Balbo) (Created with Canva)
Example of a digital skills marketplace by Matt Stempeck - https://civic.mit.edu/blog/mstem/introducing-the-participatory-aid-marketplace Humanitarian Conceirge http://blog.veritythink.com/post/50009571891/humanitarian-concierge
Thanks.
Affiliations: I’m in my 4th term as a Board Member at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. (Past-President). My employer is Qatar Computing Research Institute, where I create Programs for local and global innovation. For Understanding Risk, I participated on my own budget and annual leave to support Digital Humanitarians.
About me: http://textontechs.com/bio/