Transcript collaboration

Collaboration
in
Disaster Response
Problems, Methods, and Tools
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP
We create free and open-source software
for collaboration toward collective action.
We then teach other people
how to create it for themselves.
Refugee management
Katrina response
In our opinion, collaboration,
in humanitarian action
is THE critical task
Cholera outbreak
Questions in disaster response…
The answers to those questions reveal challenges:
1.
Cultural acceptance
2.
Geo-referenced imagery
3.
Languages and translation
4.
Unreliable communications
5.
Minimal Essential Data Sets
6.
Complex System Assessments
7.
Formal Decision Support
8.
Rapid Assessment Consolidation
9.
Emergent Strategic Collaboration
10. Consolidating Human-Animal-Environmental health impact
We think this is what collaboration requires…
Collaboration
Directory
Federation
Social Networking
Reliable
Messaging
Virtual Teaming
Social Metadata
Decision Support
Geospatial
Visualization
Autonomous
Agents
Predictive
Modeling
Distributed
Workflow
Alerting
Report Generation
Analysis
Data Fusion
Anomaly
Detection
Complex
Systems
Analysis
Network
Analysis
Text Mining
Spatio-temporal
Analysis
Sensor
Integration
Information Flow
Forms Design
Shared Ontologies
Schema Evolution
Translation
Deep Field
Collection
Geocoding
Mesh Synchronization
Storage
Abstraction
Offline Work
Conflict
Resolution
SMS Integration
Security
Identity
Adapters &
Transformers
Collaboration tools assessment
• Problem
– Agencies can’t (or won’t) communicate effectively in crisis
• Requirements for the technical problem
– Software that is effective, free, standards-based, easy to use,
sustainable, measurable, and thoroughly interoperable
• Specifications
– Must be considered with WHO, UNICEF, MoH, UCLA, OCHA,
UNOSAT, ISDR, Relief Web and many more…
• Development (at least at InSTEDD)
– We’ve built four free and open-source tools as prototypes for
improved collaboration in crisis. They fill gaps we perceived.
• Implementation
– beta evaluation in progress with all four in Southeast Asia
• ( fifth will appear on the web Tuesday )
Contact me about anything
[email protected]