CrisisCamp – Helping Chile with Ushahidi
Today we worked with Ushahidi: a crowdsourced information mapping tool. We are creating a slideshare and video content to help other volunteers learn how to contribute.
There is a need for Spanish translation. Email heatherleson AT gmail DOT com if you can help and I will link you up.
If you have a computer and some time, you can help.
- Ushahidi needs information on anything to do with builidings collapse, medical emergencies, vital communications, food distribution and water distribution. If you find any viable information please add this to Ushihidi.
Ushahidi is a way of mapping incidents occurring related to the crisis, which helps to determine where help is needed, etc. Crisis Campers can find reports of incidents online through twitter, facebook, etc, and submit them to Ushahidi. You can submit reports here: http://chilequake.ushahidi.com/reports/submit
Blog post from Ushahidi: http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/02/27/volunteers-respond-with-ushahidi-chile/
Video on Vimeo on How-To use Ushahidi: http://vimeo.com/ushahidi
Information necessary to submit an Ushahidi Online Report:
- Report Title
- Description
- Date and Time
- Categories
- - (Pick one: emergency, threat, vital lines, response, other, persons news)–> these may be different for Chile
- Optional Information
- - (First Name, Last Name, Email)
- Location
- Refine location name (make a name for the location)
- News source link
- Video link
- Upload photos
CrisisCamp volunteers are working throughout the night on Open Source mapping, tweak the tweet, and Ushahidi. To learn more, check out our main wiki page
CBC interviews CrisisCamp Toronto
Daniel Schwarz of CBC joined us for our whole session today help us film and create content. We are really honoured for their constant support to share our story. CBC News Day has invited me to join them tomorrow at 11:30am. We will be talking about CrisisCamp, projects we’ve worked on and how you can help.
Update: The CBC NewsDay interview was postponed.