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Connecting people, tools and resources to support crisis response

Connecting people, tools and resources to support crisis response

http://crisiscommons.org/

Room to Read Qui sommes-nous ? Notre vision Pour Room to Read, l’éducation des enfants est le moyen de créer un monde meilleur. Nous voulons un monde dans lequel chaque enfant puisse recevoir une éducation de qualité qui lui permettra de se réaliser pleinement et d’aider à son tour sa communauté. Notre mission Room to Read cherche à transformer la vie de millions d’enfants dans les pays en voie de développement, en se concentrant sur l’alphabétisation et l’égalité des sexes dans l’accès à l’éducation.

Crowdmap What Exactly Is Crowdmap? Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. As the platform has evolved, so have its uses. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own map of Ushahidi without having to install it on your own web server. What Can I Do With Crowdmap? Course Materials - Crisis Mapping, Politics & New Media Dear community, I am developing a new course: Political Science 397: Crisis Mapping, Politics & New Media. As the course progresses I will post materials here for your review. Please feel free to use any portion of the materials posted here for your own course development.

FR:WikiProject Haiti Haïti est un pays en Amérique du Nord à la latitude 18° 53′ 24″ Nord et la longitude 72° 49′ 48″ Ouest. Le 12 janvier 2010, un tremblement de terre de magnitude 7.0 a frappé la ville de Port-au-Prince à Haïti. L'Épidémie de choléra en octobre 2010, fait également ressortir la problématique de l'eau potable et la vulnérabilité des personnes vivant dans des camps. La communauté OpenStreetMap peut aider la réponse humanitaire en cartographiant à partir de l'imagerie satellitaire (ou d'autres sources) et en collectant et centralisant les référentiels cartographiques existants. Si vous êtes en contact avec des communautés d'haïtiens expatriés, pensez à les contacter pour travailler en collaboration pour nommer les lieux, etc. Si vous êtes un néophyte d'OSM, consultez le Un guide pour débuter.

#Ambon: Conflict and Containment Through Virtual Networks Image Courtesy of the Author The story that follows is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), whose working conclusion is that the riots that occurred on September 11th and 12th, 2011, taking seven lives and causing 65 injuries on the small island of Ambon, Indonesia, may have been intentionally provoked by certain parties through text message rumors. Despite a slow and ineffective response by police on the ground, the violence did not engulf the entire island. Some say that the riots were contained by efforts in the same vessel through which they were spread: text messages and virtual social networks. Early last month, in the middle of a small city on Ambon, one of Indonesia’s Maluku Islands, a Muslim ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver was found covered in blood in a gutter in a Christian part of town, where Muslims don’t often go. Motorcycle deaths are not uncommon in Indonesia.

Global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability As internet and mobile phone use increases, technology is transforming the field of transparency and accountability making it an increasingly dynamic space across the globe. Technology is helping to improve citizen participation in decision-making and producing new ways of identifying public service challenges through processes such as ‘data mashing’. This paper documents current trends in the way technology is being used to promote transparency in different parts of the world. It reviews over 100 projects from across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, examining how new technologies are re-energising traditional methods. a child's right We are thrilled to announce that, as of October 10, 2012, A Child’s Right is operating under a new name: Splash. We want to assure you that, even though our name is different, nothing about who we are or what we do is changing. Our mission, values, core work model, partners, staff, and plans for future growth remain the same. Why Splash?

Ushahidi Flowr. Real-time Collaboration, knowledge exchange and smart information flow. Supporting the OpenStreetMap project

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