Harnessing Volunteer Technology Communities to Drive Capacity and Innovation in Crisis Response and Global Development Monika Adamczyk

Crisis Commons / CrisisCamp Boston

CRISIS COMMONS

About Speaker

Independent IT Consultant – 10+ years of experience in software design and development, architecture and project mgmt

Crisis Commons member and CrisisCamp Boston City Lead

Organizer of Massachusetts Google Technology User Group

Email: monika@maco-tech.com

Crisis Commons is a global network of volunteers who use creative problem solving and

open technologies to help people and communities in times and places of crisis.

Crisis Commons members organize response events

called CrisisCamps.

What is CrisisCommons?

From Idea to Community

THE BEGINNING IMMEDIATE RESULTS

Founders met at 2009 Transparency Camp

Proposed the idea of Gov 2.0 Camp

90 days later 200 people participated from MIT Media labs, GWU, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, UN, Homeland Security, World Bank, GeoCommons, Sahana, Ushahidi

Ignite Session at World Bank – Beginning of Interest in Building VTC Collaboration Capacity

June 2009 – CrisisCamp Washington DC

November 2009– Google, Yahoo and Microsoft dedicated to work together to form Random Hack of Kindness (RHOK)

CrisisCamp Haiti 90 Days - 50 Events,

10 Countries, +2000 volunteers

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of volunteer labor

New communities emerged

Subsequent community response to Chile, Oil Spill, Pakistan Floods

CrisisCamp Haiti Boston

January 23rd, 2010 – 1st CrisisCamp attended by approx 140 volunteers (one of the largest camps)

Feb 13 during - 2nd Boston CrisisCamp approx 40 volunteers continued working on existing projects

Projects: Haiti Voice Needs, Open Tweet Feed, Tweak the Tweet, UN RSS Feed and Aggregator, Ushahidi Automation Tools

Governmental

Non-Governmental Organizations

Crisis Response Organizations

Volunteer Technical Communities

Private Sector

Academic

Craig Fugate, Administrator FEMACrisisCongress, July 2010

Building Partnerships

Crisis Commons – Global 2011 and on

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation granted the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and Crisis Commons a 2-year research grant

• Engagement: strategy• Engagement: community

engagement• Research and innovation

CrisisCamp Boston Now December 2010:

RHOK #2 Boston run at Boston University

February 12-13th, 2011: NECH 2010 – CrisisCommons Projects Track

Creating Technology Resource Map

Connecting local CROs and VTCs CrisisCommons Boston

Unconference (Tentative Spring 2011)

Contact Information

CrisisCamp Boston Twitter - @crisiscampbos Google Group -

http://groups.google.com/group/crisiscamp-boston

Email - crisiscampbos@gmail.comCrisisCommons Twitter - @crisiscommons, @crisiscamp Website - http://www.crisiscommons.org Google Group -

http://groups.google.com/group/crisiscommons

Questions?