Haiti OpenStreetMap
A week ago the maps of the entire country of Haiti had little more than a few highways and roads. The capital city of Port-au-Prince was a shaded outline that suggested a city. The problem was that Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, had been ignored by traditional commercial data providers. No one could afford a GPS, so why build digital maps of roads or buildings?
CrisisCommons Projects
CrisisCommons is Community Technology + Humanitarian Relief
CrisisCommons brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief -- for projects like these.
We Need, We Have Exchange
There have been a lot of generous offers from the technology sector and there are a lot of technological needs on the ground. This project, in partnership with the State Department, created a "Craigslist" type of self-identified needs and requests by non-profits assisting in Haiti relief operations and technology volunteers around the world.
Language & Translation
Mainstream online translation tools don't support the Creole language. This project is dedicated to using technology to assist in translating priority content resources between Creole and English (and other languages) in support of relief assistance and CrisisCamp projects.
Haiti Basemap
The damage of the earthquake has left roads and villages inaccessible, and people displaced from their homes. Volunteers around the world are using historic maps, satellite imagery, and local knowledge to create an open basemap for Port-au-Prince and other affected areas of Haiti.
Mapping NGOs in Action
NGOs are the "boots on the ground" in Haiti. Hundreds of NGOs have ongoing operations in Haiti. But who's who and where are they? This project is gathering information to create an overview database of relief assistance that is deployed to Haiti. The project will create a directory of organizations, people on the ground, where they are, what they are doing, and what they need. The team will create a Drupal database relating people to programs.
Mobile Applications 4 Crisis Response
The projects that we develop at CrisisCamp Haiti are only useful if they're accessible! The Mobile Applications team is working with other CrisisCamp project teams to make mobile applications for programs and projects. These applications will be useable on mobile phones and will assist users in locating news, resources, language translation, and visual communications tools.
Family Reunification Systems
When catastrophic events happen, like the earthquake that hit Haiti, people are lost and families are separated. This project focuses on searching for missing persons catalogs, databases, and information pages. The team is providing constructive suggestions for the International community in terms of access for the gathered information.
NPR Crisis Wiki
On the ground of any event there is always a need for resources. This project assists National Public Radio to create a Crisis Wiki to share real time information in a collaborative space, much like a yellow pages for resources. The project created a structure that can be used and adapted for future events.
The Haiti Timeline
There is a great need to fully understand the progression of events, news, data, photos and video from the time of the earthquake through the recovery process. This project is an organic approach at looking at the series of events, types of data available, when actions occurred, status of the events, and who is doing what; this project is constantly changing and adding new information in real time.
Tweak the Tweet
Use Twitter messages to ask for help or offer assistance. @epiccolorado is a standard format for help messages that makes it easy for people help.
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