We’re Presenting at Podcamp. Join us!

We’re presenting about CrisisCommons and CrisisCamp (Haiti) at Podcamp this weekend:

Session title: Crowdsourcing Volunteer Technical Communities with CrisisCommons
When: Saturday, February 20, 2010 2pm
Where: PODCAMP Ryerson University, RCC 204 at 2pm
Who: Brian, Rachel, Jeff and Heather will be presenting, but volunteers can help too : )

How?
We would love any CrisisCamper to join us for the session.  Please bring a laptop.  If you can join, please contact heatherleson AT gmail DOT com and I’ll fill you in on the plan. We will get questions and have been assigned a large room to showcase this great project that you have all made happen in Toronto. (Thank you). You deserve to stand up and say: you are part of a movement of folks trying to use our skills differently.

Summary of the presentation:

How can you use your technology and social media skills to help NGOs during emergencies?

All you need is a computer and Internet access. CrisisCommons.org is a Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) made up of a growing group of technical, project manager, emergency planner and social media knowledge workers. After the earthquake in Haiti, cities around North America and the UK started CrisisCamp (Haiti) in their locations to volunteer their time to “help the helpers”. They are using social media tools to crowdsource collaboration on various projects from software development to opensource mapping to social media translation – work that is new and evolving every minute.

Heather, Brian, Rachel and others from CrisisCommons (Toronto) will be addressing the question how can technology and knowledge workers volunteer their skills with one click of a mouse.

The CNW press release for Podcamp.

More next week about the coming CrisisCommons and CrisisCamp (Haiti) plans.