Using Technology to Assist People During

Humanitarian Crisis

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

# C I V S O C I A LBy Jean-Patrick EHOUMAN

Crisis Camp European Summit – Paris – 27 May, 2011

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

I - Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new platform

Introduction A Technology Hub

An unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Côte

d'Ivoire

The mobilization

Akendewa’s responsiveness

OperationAssessment

Lessons learned

Building an application

Looking for fundings

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

I - Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new plateform

Born from the Barcamp Abidjan 2009 One community – passionate members – professionals – developers – experts – freelancers – students – ... A dozen projects The most active IT organization in Côte d'Ivoire for the last 2 years

Introduction

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

I - Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new plateform

A Technology Hub

To give everyone an opportunity to implement their vision To meet and learn together

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

I - Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new plateform

An unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Côte d'Ivoire

Populations were facing some big issues The whole banking system was out of service Phone top up shortage Unable to help, the diaspora was feeling powerless

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

I - Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new plateform

The Mobilization

The very first tweets from @cartunelo The power of Twitter & other social networks We requested support from telephone companies

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

I - Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new plateform

Akendewa’s Responsiveness

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

I - Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new plateform

Akendewa’s Responsiveness

The Call Center in Accra Online volunteers could react promptly through Skype A web platform within 24h An illegitimate fundraising

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

- Akendewa

II - #Civsocial

III - Towards a new plateform

‣ A social experience

‣ What we did could be useful to others

‣ The platform we built can be reused for similar purposes

‣ fundraising

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

#CIVNEXT ?

Emulating the Internet and Mobile Industry in Francophone Africa

#CIVSOCIAL – Using Technology to Assist People During Humanitarian Crisis

AKENDEWA Website : http://www.akendewa.org Facebook : http//www.facebook.com/akendewa Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/akendewa Email : contact@akendewa.org

#CISOCIAL Web site: http://civsocial.akendewa.org Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/civsocial Twitter : Http://www.twitter.com/civsocial

Jean-Patrick Ehouman Email : jp.ehouman@akendewa.org Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/jpehouman Website : http://www.jpehouman.com

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